Vi er i 1970'ernes New York. Den 19-årige Shane vil væk fra sit grå liv og ind til natklubben Studio 54, hvor der leves det vilde liv, med masser af glamour og sex. Han bliver straks opslugt af den glitrende verden, der skyller over ham. Han får et job som afrydder og finder sammen med Anita garderobedamen, som drømmer om at blive opdaget som sangerinde. Da Shane pludselig står ansigt-til-ansigt med sin drømmepige, tv-stjernen Julie Black begynder der at flyve romantiske gnister i luften. Da Shane så bliver bartender kommer han rigtig i overhalingsbanen og oplever berømmelsens vingesus.

A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats...

After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his father's house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house.

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.