" Jakie""s father points to his watch: "He will start the fasting of Yom Kippur without supper."Yudleson brings the news: "In a saloon, who do you think I saw singing raggy time songs? - your son Jakie!" His father is furious to find his son in the beer-garden performing ""Waiting for the Robert E.Under the credits, a conflicted, 19 year-old, vulgar-mouthed, eenaged, self-centered, working-class Italian-American anti-hero from the neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, swaggering Anthony "Tony" Manero (a star-making role for John Travolta), strutted eastward down he sidewalk on Brooklyn""s 86th Street.[The greatest difficulty with the film was that five alternative endings were shot (or created in the editing room), and it was undecided how the film would conclusively end.You play your cards right and you""ll never have o worry about money again." Playing matchmaker, he introduces her to Ted Sheldon (Rod La Rocque), his handsome "Casanova" nephew.