“I’ll tell you something funny,” revealed legendary radio personality Patrick Teoh, as he proceeded to describe how movie-goers walking out of the cinema after watching Saturday Night Fever (SNF) invariably moved with a strut ... subconsciously or otherwise.
Such is the power and magic of that John Travolta dance flick that 40 years on, there are Malaysian kids on Facebook inserting the American actor’s surname into their names as prefixes and suffixes these days. Somehow, it’s unlikely that the Travolta craze is a response to his work in either Pulp Fiction or Swordfish.