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and unemployed Josh Neff: I don't know about that. Jimmy Steinway: There's something deeply ingrained in human biology: women prefer bad over weak and indecisive.

#The last days of disco full#

You know the Woodstock generation of the 1960s that were so full of themselves and conceited? None of those people could dance. Before disco, this country was a dancing wasteland. Charlotte Pingress: Your brother must be a lot older. Jimmy Steinway: People my older brothers age, they did. Charlotte Pingress: Did people ever really dance in bars? I thought that was a myth. Jimmy Steinway: You know this is the way people used to dance in bars in the old days. Charlotte Pingress: We look real good tonight. Charlotte Pingress: I thought you've been here several times before. Charlotte Pingress: You're really worried about getting in? Alice Kinnon: Yes.

Ted Boynton: Barcelona is beautiful but in human terms, pretty cold.ĭialogue Alice Kinnon: I hear you have a much better chance of getting in if you come by cab.

Tom Platt: The environmental movement of our times was sparked by the rerelease of Bambi in the 1950s.

Jimmy Steinway: There isn't a chance of you getting infatuated with me again is there?.

I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.Sorry, I've got a job interview this afternoon and I was trying to get revved up, but - most of what I said I, uh, believe. Disco was too great and too much fun to be gone forever. Disco was much more, and much better than all that. Those who didn't understand will never understand. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and going like this! But we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. It will be misrepresented, caricatured and sneered at, or worse, completely ignored.

Oh for a few years, maybe many years it will be considered passé and ridiculous. Something like this that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Films like this program women to adore jerks. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially it's a primer about love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches that smooth talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls in sheltered homes. No, he's a self confessed chicken thief an all around sleaze ball. Tramp, the love interest is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind, an oily jail bird out for a piece of tail or whatever he can get. She's great looking but, let's be honest, incredibly insipid. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond cocker spaniel with absolutely nothing on the brain. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types which is where it gets into real trouble.

There is something depressing about it and it's not really about dogs.

I consider you a person of some integrity, except, you know, in your relations with women.

I couldn't believe you'd be involved in the kind of things that have been going on here and told them so.

not to be true to 'thine own self'? See? That's my situation. What if 'thine own self' is not so good? What if it's pretty bad? Would it better, in that case.

Do you know that Shakespearean admonition 'To thine own self be true'? It's premised on the idea that 'thine own self' is pretty good, being true to which is commendable.

#The last days of disco professional#

Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category.

Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional".A certain amount of pairing off was always part of the original plan. Our bodies weren't really designed for group social life. Group social life has its place, but at a certain point other biological factors come into play.Do you think the neurological effects of caffeine are similar to that of cocaine?.Like, um, there's something really sexy about strobe lights.

Whenever you can, throw the word sexy - into a conversation. This is going to sound dumb, but, it really works.But anything I did that was not wrong, I don't apologize for. Anything I did that was wrong, I apologize for.What if in a few years we don't marry some corporate lawyer? What if we marry some meatball, like you? Or not you, personally, but someone with similarly low socioeconomic prospects.