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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
“We made what we felt was a good movie — but it was a small movie, just $2.5 million, and to be frank, it was intended as a place-holder for John Travolta while he was waiting to shoot Grease. That was how the studio viewed it.”
John Badham
This is how the viewer discovers Tony (John Travolta) at the beginning of the film, as he wanders around his Brooklyn neighborhood, watching from the Bay Ridge Promenade the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, dreaming of crossing it and never returning.
A bridge on which the character regularly has fun scaring himself with his friends until the tragic fall of his friend Bobby C (Barry Miller).
John Travolta lost 30 pounds to play his role in the film.
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
Inaugurated in 1964, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is 4176 meters long. An essential stage of the New York Marathon, which starts on Staten Island…
At one time the longest suspension bridge in the world, the Verrazzano-Narrows was built in five years by 12,000 workers.
Three of them died on the construction site. It is also known for having hosted the largest American flag in the world in June 1976.
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Fanspots Stories New York
Discover the secrets of the cult places of the greatest masterpieces of pop culture in New York!
The world capital of pop culture, New York embodies unbridled creative freedom. The city that never sleeps has been the muse of a large number of directors, actors, screenwriters, singers, musicians, cartoonists and writers…
Many have passed on their fascination for the city to the general public and made some of its places famous worldwide, making them into the legend of pop culture. These are the secrets of a hundred of them revealed in this first volume of the Fanspots Stories collection.
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Did you know that the filming of Rage Against The Machine’s Music Now in the Fire caused Wall Street to shut down for the first time since 1929?
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Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Superman, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin…
Directed by a team of pop culture specialists and embellished with many anecdotes, Fanspots Stories New York tells more than just a story: these are some of the most fascinating stories in pop culture.
Fanspot Stories New York
100 pop cults
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Discover all the places Saturday Night Fever on our map
By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.