Grease (1998, VHS)

This is one of my wife's favorite films and, indeed, I loved it as a kid. Heck, I still enjoy it, even though the film has a ton of problems. Amazingly, it succeeds in spite of sending a horrible message, casting folks too old to play high school students, letting John Travolta sing and tossing in elements of damned disco all over the place. Grease, released in 1978, is set in the 1950s and centers around the on-again, off-again romance of Danny Zuko (played by John Travolta) and Sandy (Olivia Newton-John). The film starts with Danny and Sandy having a big, fun time over summer vacation. At...

The musical genre was in the basement during the seventies, eighties, and nineties, until the apparent renaissance of such films like Moulin Rouge and Chicago. Back in the good old days, all sorts of musicals were hits, and award-winners, and even in the 1960 s, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and Oliver! were huge Oscar winners. But these movies turned out to be the last gasp of a popular genre -- more realistic movies, and the counter culture movement, created an environment where bursting into song seemed more than fanciful, but ridiculous. It s interesting to note that.

Following our Italian adventures, the European location unit for Goodfollies had one final stop before returning home to the United States and studio work. We all headed off to Barcelona for a few days. Here, we shot the most elaborate of the musical numbers for this epic tale of lady mobsters in New Jersey, a complex aerial ballet using silks, trampolines and the flying trapeze, performed amongst the spires of Gaudi's masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia. The producers chose this location as the organic forms of Gaudi's architecture, with their dream like quality (even in their unfinished state)..

Have you ever considered the fact that Grease may very well be a bad influence on children? Don t get me wrong. Grease is one of my guilty pleasures in life (as a rule, I generally hate musicals). But I ll bet you ve never thought of it this way: (Oh! If you ve never seen this movie then don t read this. It gives up practically every detail and is more of an analysis about whether children should watch it. Okay? Are they gone? The ones who ve never seen this? Let s proceed!) Sandy moves to the US from Australia. Frenchie, the Beauty School Drop Out, asks Riz if she could become a Pink Lady..