Karen Lynn Gorney??
-
daughterofolaf — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 04:21 PM)
She was gross and unappealing in every way. I actually fast forward through all of the scenes she is in that have dialogue. The character is a total c v n t bag anyway and to make matters worse, yes, the actress is terrible.
"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?" -
ck1-5 — 10 years ago(January 13, 2016 10:50 AM)
Well, to be fair, Tony wasn't really the authority on women that he considered himself to be, either. I could see someone like him falling head over heels for the first woman he sees who can eat a meal without getting it all over her face and doesn't say "ain't".
-
ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(November 10, 2022 11:01 PM)
Donna Pescow nailed it.
She truly did.
Travolta should have been named best actor and Pescow is my choice for best supporting actress. SNF is my choice for best picture.
Norman! What did you put in my tea? -
mmsbk — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 06:25 AM)
Oh here we go, the obligatory misogynist loser who feels somehow cheated if an actress is not stereotypically attractive, and also feels justified in calling the character vile names should she be anything other than100% dedicated to male comfort and ego gratification.
-
pug32 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 10:37 AM)
Oh here we go, the obligatory misogynist loser who feels somehow cheated if an actress is not stereotypically attractive, and also feels justified in calling the character vile names should she be anything other than100% dedicated to male comfort and ego gratification.
hahahahhaah, that's funny, love it, hahahahhah -
sargesmash — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 10:35 AM)
I can't figure out why they couldn't have tried harder to make her at least a bit more attractive. Mongloid hairdo, grey teeth, smokers voicethe only scene where she looked somewhat decent was when she had coffee with Tony. But yeah, her career really didn't go anywhere after this.
-
johnejustice — 9 years ago(June 15, 2016 02:57 PM)
I disagree. I thought she had a Brooklyn-type sophistication and their chemistry leaped off the screen. She was more and more beautiful as the movie went on. I thought that was exactly what the director was going for and he and Gorney nailed it!
-
pug32 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 10:40 AM)
I disagree. I thought she had a Brooklyn-type sophistication and their chemistry leaped off the screen. She was more and more beautiful as the movie went on. I thought that was exactly what the director was going for and he and Gorney nailed it!
you are right and remember they had to cast a dancer although many believe she couldn't dance. like they say dont knock it if you can do it -
ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(November 10, 2022 11:02 PM)
She was cast because she was the director's gf. Badham replaced Avildsen.
The reason John Avildsen was fired from his directorial duties on "Saturday Night Fever" was due to "creative differences" with producer Robert Stigwood and John Travolta. Avildsen wanted to soften the darker edges of the Tony Manero character into a more "Rocky"-like "nice guy", he wanted a conventional romance to take precedence over the ambiguous nature of the relationship with Stephanie in Norman Wexler's screenplay, he did not want to use The Bee Gees to score the music, he wanted a great deal of the profanity removed, and he wanted a more upbeat ending to overshadow the more tragic elements involved in the film's climax.
After Avildsen left, he would go on to direct a film called "Slow Dancing In The Big City" (1978) incorporating a great deal of those changes that he wanted to impose upon "Fever", but the film turned out to be a critical and box-office disaster.
Norman! What did you put in my tea? -
mals2011 — 9 years ago(July 21, 2016 09:49 PM)
The problem I had with her was she was supposed to be such a great dancer andnot. Her moves were cringe worthy (as was her acting) Donna Pescow was much better at both.
Only the suppressed word is dangerous
Ludwig Borne -
TheGoodMan19 — 9 years ago(July 22, 2016 09:31 PM)
She wasn't supposed to be sexy. Just more sophisticated. But she was more full of crap and more pathetic than Tony's friends. She thought she was something with her names calling and her superiority over her job. Christ, she equated Lawrence Olivier with his Polaroid ads. I don't know why she came off better in the end than Tony's friends and family.
ACK! THPPPPPPT! -
adresher-1 — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 10:03 AM)
You are missing the point with her character. She was not supposed to be some Farrah Fawcett or Jacqueline Smith 70s bombshell. Tony's life was headed nowhere, he worked in a paint shop and hung out with his childhood friends whose lives were also headed nowhere. The only girls Tony got where locals who were impressed with his dancing.
Stephanie blew his mind which is why he found her good looking ans sexy. She could care less that he was a great dancer and while all of Tony's friends were content with their lived working josb any high school drop out could do, she wanted to get the hell of out of Bay Ridge and do something with her life. That is why he found her attractive.