Too Much To Dream

Okay, I'll admit it. I saw Grease 5 times in the theatre. Of course, I was nine years old at the time and my goal in life was to be a Solid Gold Dancer, so there you go.

It took me years to stop expecting high schoolers to look like they were in their thirties...

But Grease 2? Oh, dear God. Two words: Adrian Zmed. I still bear scars from my exposure to it on HBO.

I saw Grease at least five times in the theater, and I catch it quote often on telvision. It's one of the best movies ever made. And no, I am not gay. I had a huge crush on Olivia Newton John. I waited till Grease 2 was on TV before I saw it. I think I got about hald-way through before I changes channels.

BTW: Grease 3 will be a sequel to Grease 1, not Grease 2, and will be set in the 1970s. I only hope it doesn't contain too much g--damn disco.

I don't know you people. (Hey, I went by numbers. As far as I am concerned, if there was an OG, and then a G2, then G3 is the sequel to G2.)

By the way, my revulsion at this project is almost entirely based upon the statement "it's set in the 70s." The only reason that I didn't own a "Screw Disco Dan" t-shirt is that my parents refused to by me one. (For those of you who don't know, "Disco Dan" was some sort of idealization of the white-polyester-suited, shirt-opened-to-the-navel, gold-medallion-wearing disco dancer guy. The t-shirt featured a picture of him with a giant screw through his torso. What did I listen to in the 70s instead of disco? Sixties music and classical music.)

By the way -- "OG" -- Original Grease.

I know of a fast-food place that's still making fries in OG.

Strange tangent, Kevin, but more interesting than the original thread: there was a comparison review of fish & chip shops in London about a decade ago in Time Out, and when they asked how often they changed the oil, several places reacted with a blank stare. This is also why I rarely buy movie theater popcorn.

The horror, the horror!!

At least the remake can't have John Travolta in it.

Why can't it have Travolta? I mean, Hollywoodies are capable of anything. Think of it this way: G3 might keep him away from the remake of Harvey.

Grease 1....for the money.
Grease 2....for the show....
Grease 3....for even more money....and to get John Travolta working again?

The subtitle to Grease 3 should be:

"Grease 3: This time we squeeze blood from this turnip by setting it in the pre-Xanadu 70's!"

As usual, this sequel should make somebody at least a million dollars!

Now, to change the subject, "Matrix Reloaded"!!!

(Stunned silence)
(off the 1853 Lard Soap™®© box)
(exit stage right)

Grease isn't a movie, it's a karaoke party. That said, I still love it. Mmmmmmmmlivia in black leather...

Ahem. Anyway, Grease 2 was just a showcase for Adrian Zmed's chest hair, which is why it sucked so bad.

The 70's rears it's ugly head yet again! Will you not not pass silently into that good night, 70's? Out, damned decade! Out, I say!

Did anyone see the Mad Mag version of Grease?

Grease came out when I was in junior high. Everybody wanted to be Sandy--but not the good girl Sandy, the bad girl Sandy.

Mad Mag's take was something like,"To get the guy you want, you have to be a slut. What a great moral for the children of today."

Honestly, at the time, I really liked it--but after my daughters played it and played it on VHS and DVD many, many times somehow that disc got, uhm, "scratched"....and the tape got "lost"...

I'm better at tangents than original threads. Ask anybody.