[NYCVirago]

I am not surprised to find out that David Hinckley was wrong at least twice in that article. He did one of those "big town character" articles about Tony Manero of "Saturday Night Fever," and said that the movie was released in the summer of 1978 (it was released in the winter of 1977; the reason I remember that is because it came out a good six months before "Grease," another John Travolta hit movie.) Hinkcley also said that Manero lived in Bensonhurst, when his neighborhood was Bay Ridge, the Brooklyn neighborhood closest to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (if you remember, the bridge played an important part in the movie.)

[BluesDuke]

I sure do remember the Verazzano Bridge scenes in Saturday Night Fever. Don't they have a fact checker at the News? Or doesn't Hinckley bother to check his dates as best he can? Next he'll try to tell us that Ebbets Field was demolished the moment the Dodgers left town. (The park came down at last in 1960, by the way - and the same baseball-painted wrecking ball was used to bring down the Polo Grounds in April 1964.) I'm writing a book about the 1962 Mets (almost ready to make a formal proposal to agents/publishers, by the way - three draft chapters done) and I've checked and double checked multiple sources already to check dates when I use them specifically. It doesn't take that much effort.