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''Skatetown, U.S.A.'' is a 1979 American comedic feature film produced to capitalize on the short-lived fad of roller disco.〔allmovie.com, ''(Skatetown, USA )'', retrieved 25 September 2010〕 The film features many TV stars from the 1960s and 1970s, among them Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormick, Ron Palillo and Ruth Buzzi. Patrick Swayze's leading role as the skater "Ace" was his first movie performance. Also in the cast are Sydney Lassick, Billy Barty and ''Playboy'' centerfold model Dorothy Stratten. ==Plot== One evening at a Los Angeles-area roller disco called ''Skatetown, U.S.A.,'' a rivalry between two skaters (Patrick Swayze and Greg Bradford) culminates in a contest, the winning prize for which is $1000 and a moped. After a game of chicken played on motorized roller skates, the two rivals become friends. ==Production notes== The setting is based on ''Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace'', a disco roller rink which had opened in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard earlier in 1979 and was fleetingly a very popular celebrity hangout. The film includes many short, broadly comedic and slapstick sub-plots (such as a gag having to do with itching powder) set between long roller skating sequences and musical performances. Filming was done mostly at the Hollywood Palladium, built in 1940. Its sprawling blond hardwood dance floor, chandeliers and soap bubbles blown by a machine from the ''Lawrence Welk Show'' can be seen in sundry scenes. Some exteriors were shot on Santa Monica Pier and at nearby Venice Beach. Patrick Swayze, who had roller skated competitively as a teenager and was a trained dancer, did his own skating and stunts in the film. April Allen, Swayze's uncredited roller skating partner in the movie, had won the world championship in women's free skating seven years earlier.〔Swayze, Patrick and Niemi, Lisa, ''(The Time of My Life )'', Simon and Schuster, 2009, pp 74-75, ISBN 978-1-4391-5858-6, retrieved 1 October 2010〕〔susan-a-miller.com, ''(Allen (Powell), April )'', retrieved 2 october 2010〕 Twenty-nine years after filming, Maureen McCormick recalled "Like a disco, there was a lot of cocaine being done on the set. Many people were open about it." McCormick wrote that she fell back into severe cocaine addiction during production, often showing up late for shooting or not coming to work at all.〔McCormick, Maureen, ''Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice'', William Morrow, pp 123-124. 14 October 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-149014-9〕 Scott Baio later recalled: I have blocked that movie from my memory, it was so bad... That was that whole time where ''Xanadu'' and ''Roller Boogie'' and all that crap was coming out. That was one of those things where they sent me the script and I said “no,” but they just kept calling and offering more money! I mean, they offered me a lot of money. And finally I said, “Well, hell. What is it? Two weeks’ work? Whatever, okay, fine.” And it was… You know, sometimes money isn’t everything. () It was just bad. I mean, it was bad shooting it. I’m trying to think of any real stories that I have, but it was just insanity. When was that? ’79? It was just a guy making a film who didn’t know how to make a film, and I don’t even know what the story was!. ''Skatetown, U.S.A.'', that was crapola.〔(Will Harris, "Scott Baio talks Chachi, Bob Loblaw, and Howard Cosell", ''AV Club'' 3 April 2014 ) accessed 7 April 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skatetown, U.S.A.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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