Karen Lynn Gorney

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Saturday Night Fever (1977); Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021); All My Children.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Nik Cohn: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read). The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated.
    “this article written by Nick Cohen”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Staying Alive (1983): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original.
    “I'm glad it exists.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would.
    “it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Airplane! (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

Fighting with My Family (2019): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read). Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie.
    “I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Karen Lynn Gorney → All My Children. She came from All My Children and could not get back on it after the film.
    “She was on all my children, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:06:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Jessica Lange. Jessica Lange was reportedly considered for Stephanie.
    “Jessica Lang keeps getting mentioned”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:57:53 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher reportedly auditioned for Stephanie before Star Wars came out.
    “Carrie Fisher.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:58:10 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Fran Drescher. Simmons says anyone would be better than Gorney, though he could be talked into Fran Drescher.
    “you could have also talked me into Fran Dresher.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:02:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Cher. Kimmel floats Cher as an older Stephanie.
    “What about like Cher?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:03:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Karen Lynn Gorney: Simmons spent half an hour searching for why she was cast and found nothing; she is also about nine years older than Travolta and a weak dancer.
    “I'm so confused why she got cast for this movie that I actually spent like a half hour Googling it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:55:09 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Karen Lynn Gorney: Her take on why her career stalled: people thought she was Stephanie; she turned down a Saturday Night Fever TV series.
    “people didn't know what to do with Stephanie Mangano.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:08:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)