The 80s disco fever dream you didn't know existed. Cher AND Hefner? Someone was HIGH.
This one hour TV special promoting the release of Can't Stop the Music featured the film's stars (The Village People, Valerie Perrine, Steve Guttenberg and Bruce Jenner) with guest appearances by Cher, Hugh Hefner and others.
Production
Four directors for a one-hour special. FOUR. The cocaine budget speaks.
Costume
Every frame is a leather-daddy construction worker fever dream.
Director
Allan Garden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This special captures peak disco commodification — queer-coded aesthetics repackaged for mainstream consumption months before the genre crashed. The Village People themselves were reportedly miserable during this filming.
Bruce Jenner's appearance predates their transition by decades, making this a bizarre dual-layer time capsule. Also, Allan Carr produced Grease — his taste was... specific.
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