Travolta

[orangecrush]

As a "Dude" in the 70's, I hated disco and him for "Saturday Night Fever" elevating it to preeminence.

I later grew up, dated a very talented dance teacher, and learned to appreciate dance as art, even with two left feet.

This scene is pure badass magic, and the scene and costumes remind me of the steel mill town near Pittsburgh I grew up in during the 70's. It's spot on.

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[kozar]

1. Entertaining movie!! N/T

[orangecrush]

2. Going to have to watch it now

I just found this on YouTube yesterday.

I take it this was during his 90's comeback.

He was the undisputed King of the dance floor.

[debm55]

3. Thank you orangecrush. You were a yunzer?? yes it does look like the bars back in the 70's

[orangecrush]

4. Yes indeed.

I'm an Erie resident now, moved to the frozen North. 😁

Also learned today that Tommy Cogbill played the wicked bass line in this. 😎

[stopdiggin]

5. you're right. a brilliant scene.

(if you're not drawn in by this, you got no soul .. )

[orangecrush]

6. Thanks, I agree

Makes me feel like dancing!

[Deuxcents]

7. What's the name of the movie..

[Kali]

9. Michael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(1996_film)

Plot

The National Mirror is a tabloid publication that reports primarily on unexplainable phenomena. The editor, Vartan Malt, receives a story tip about a woman living with an angel in her house in a small town in Iowa, and decides to send three staff members to investigate. He chooses Frank Quinlan; Huey Driscoll, a photographer and owner of the Mirror star Sparky the Wonder Dog; and Dorothy Winters, hired by Malt to eventually replace Driscoll.

At the boarding house of Pansy Milbank, they meet her tenant Michael. While Michael has wings and smells like cookies, he has an unexpected taste for cigarettes and sugar, seems rather boorish at first, and does not appear clean. When pressed for the type of angel he is, he replies he is an archangel, with Pansy boasting he triumphed over Lucifer in the War in Heaven.

After Pansy unexpectedly dies, Frank and Huey decide to take Michael to Chicago. Michael reveals that this was his plan from the beginning. During the trip, Michael's mission on Earth is slowly revealed to be to get Frank and Dorothy together despite both having had bad experiences with love.

After Sparky is hit by a truck and killed, Michael brings him back to life. In the process, he uses up his allotment of miracles and begins to weaken. The group reaches Chicago just in time for Michael to see the Sears Tower (which he has always wanted to see) before disappearing. After Frank and Dorothy go their separate ways, Michael returns one more time (this time with Pansy in tow) and gets Frank and Dorothy back together for good.

[Deuxcents]

10. Ok..vaguely remember..I should watch it again. Thanks for the review

[orangecrush]

16. Thanks Kali!

[Kali]

8. he is a talented dancer

[debm55]

11. Yes, he is very talented. I remember him back in his "Welcome Back Kotter" Days. I'm old

[Kali]

12. Vinnie Barbarino

[debm55]

13. Yep and he is good on the eyes.

[Kali]

14. he has some sex appeal for sure

he is a scientologist kook, though. kind of detracts.

[orangecrush]

17. We hated him

Because all the girls loved him, just like in the clip!

[Kali]

19. LOL

yeah but you guys had Farrah Fawcett

[mitch96]

15. Damnedest Tai Chi class I ever saw!!!

I know, put me back in the box....😜
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[orangecrush]

18. How did you know?

I'm learning Chen Manching short form right now, about half way through it.

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[mitch96]

20. I did a bunch of Tai Chi years ago.. Chen, Sun,Yang... Any tai chi is good tai chi. For me Chen was the one that

got me. Chen was first developed in Chen Village a long time ago. All others came from Chen.
Heavy martial art roots. I learned from a Chinese expat who's instructor was a Chen Family member.
My instructor would sponsor members of the Chen family to come over and do seminars...Good stuff.
The health benefits are undeniable..
LIke I said, all tai chi is good tai chi
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This is the Old form Large frame sequence..

[orangecrush]

21. IIRC

Chen is considered the most effective combat style, the others are more geared toward cultivation?

Lots of explosive Fa Jing in Chen.

Thanks, cool video!

I have learned, though, that soft power can be mind blowing in it's own right.

[mitch96]

22. "Chen is considered the most effective combat style"...True. I learned at a Chinese Martial Arts center in Hollywood Fla

They also taught Bagua and Xing Yi all for combat. These guys were hard core.I was more into the health aspect of the art.
Chen being the best for that of the three for me...
And so it goes..
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[orangecrush]

23. I did manage

To learn the Five Elements Fists of Xingyi.

Had a lot of fun in the process

That was years after my formal training in my younger days, about 10 years in a Shaolin based system.

It was great stuff, but the problems are there was so much material I can remember only bits and pieces, and most of it was so physically demanding at my age I'd break my neck trying to do it!

Tai Chi works well for me.

Shaolin translates as "Young Forest" for a reason!