SOMEBODY IN CHILE WORSHIPS THE DISCO -ERA TRAVOLTA


	SOMEBODY IN CHILE WORSHIPS THE DISCO -ERA TRAVOLTA

ellington

7-3-2009 10:42 PM

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disco, travolta, fever, dance

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TONY MANERO 2008

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/86457d11-d646-43c2-b1e2-037079d80fa7/070CE072-34CE-4C8B-A7E7-59A2FD043CD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#" href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">movies.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><H1>Somebody in Chile Worships the Disco-Era Travolta</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><H1 class="movie">Tony Manero (2008)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.nytimes.com/img/D5D7A2E8-34A4-4CC0-B1BD-9A9CF6F2D22D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><P class="caption">
						Every night of the week fever in Santiago, Chile: Alfredo Castro in “Tony Manero.” 
					</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><P>Talk about self-delusion! The grotesque spectacle of a 52-year-old thug with a graying pompadour, stripped to his briefs in front of a mirror gracelessly imitating <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/person/71670/John-Travolta?inline=nyt-per">John Travolta</A>’s dance moves from <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=42923&inline=nyt_ttl">“Saturday Night Fever,”</A> haunts Pablo Larraín’s film <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=453707&inline=nyt_ttl">“Tony Manero”</A> like a nightmare apparition. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><P>During his repeated visits to the nearly empty theater showing the film in Santiago, Chile, this obsessed fan, Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro), a petty criminal who lives on the outskirts of the city, mouths the dialogue spoken by Mr. Travolta’s character, Tony Manero, as though memorizing catechism. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03tony.html#"><P>When he visits the theater one afternoon and discovers that “Saturday Night Fever” has been replaced by <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=20546&inline=nyt_ttl">“Grease,”</A> he goes berserk. Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of his indulging a tawdry fantasy that gives him his only sense of identity.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/070CE072-34CE-4C8B-A7E7-59A2FD043CD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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