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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
STAYING AWAKE
STAYING ALIVE (1983)
dir: Sylvester Stallone
MAD #245, March 1984
w: Stan Hart
a: Jack Davis
Sequel to Saturday Night Fever showing what happened to Tony Manero (John Travolta) six years later, after being the best disco dancer at his neighborhood club in Brooklyn and hanging out with his high school fiends, then moving to Manhattan.
Tony is struggling with two jobs as a waiter and dance instuctor, not quite becoming the star he expected. His popularity in Bay Ridge doesn't make him a hit in the city. He's living in a fleabag hotel and has a girlfiend, Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes) who's also struggling as a dancer.
After Tony goes on several auditions, he goes and sees Jackie as a back-up dancer in a show then goes to congratulate Laura (Finola Hughes), star of the show, and tries to ask her out. She eventually agrees after turning him down, then kicks him out of her house after a one-night stand.
Tony finally gets a job in a show called Satan's Alley and he tells his mother the good news. He's infatuated with Laura and she keeps rejecting him, and he goes back to Jackie, then stands her up constantly, hoping to get with Laura again, and he's jealous Jackie's dating her bandmate (Frank Stallone) now. Tony goes to a party at Laura's penthouse (they never explain why she's rich) and the only good clothes he has are his old disco suit.
Tony finally gets the hint that Laura was only using him and he tries to get back with Jackie, who's not sure about being his second choice. He goes back to the old house where he grew up asking his mother (Julie Bovasso) where he went wrong, and she tells him to stay the asshole he is since it suits him. Jackie won't see Tony any longer but agrees to at least rehearse with him.
Laura's dancing partner is fired and Tony replaces him because they have better chemistry.
Tony dances in Satan's Alley but doesn't join the cast party afterwards. He gets back together with Jackie, then struts down the street like he did at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever. MAD's punchline is that he has to run because it was Times Square, which was all porn theaers and hookers in the eighties.
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