Well...this weekend I have to pay the piper. As you all know, last week my wife really went full boar with providing great food for my friends and I as we watched the Charger game. And although the Chargers lost, my wife did a great job keeping the snacks coming and she made some knock out Tostadas. (this weekend it will be Lasanga)..
Tomorrow, Saturday, I have to pay the piper. I will have to sit throught not only GREASE but GREASE 2.
I like Grease. I haven't seen it for a couple years, but its got good music, for the most part, and Oliva Newton John is pretty hot in it as well. But Grease 2? Oh boy...my wife thinks its as good as GREASE 1. But we all know; it isn't!!! But I will play the trooper and not make fun of it as I usually do. Don't want to upset the sunday Football gig!!!
GREASE remindes me a lot of HAIRSPRAY. Yes, I saw that movie last year. Travolta/Wadkin steal the movie as a married couple; and their dance number is the best part...over all HAIRSPRAY is a pretty good musical too. The message isn't subtle, but the music was great.
Oh yeah..this is a GREASE thread...what would you give GREASE on a grade scale...check the poll!!!
Rob
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Grease 2 just as good as Grease? ummmmm......NO.
Good luck there Robert; I hope you survive....LMAO
Every time I hear "Hand Jive" I get excited. I loved that scene. Saw the play on Broadway with Rosie O'Donnell. Everybody sings every song...it is hilarious!
Robert Canary Wrote:Well...this weekend I have to pay the piper. As you all know, last week my wife really went full boar with providing great food for my friends and I as we watched the Charger game. And although the Chargers lost, my wife did a great job keeping the snacks coming and she made some knock out Tostadas. (this weekend it will be Lasanga)..
Tomorrow, Saturday, I have to pay the piper. I will have to sit throught not only GREASE but GREASE 2.
I like Grease. I haven't seen it for a couple years, but its got good music, for the most part, and Oliva Newton John is pretty hot in it as well. But Grease 2? Oh boy...my wife thinks its as good as GREASE 1. But we all know; it isn't!!! But I will play the trooper and not make fun of it as I usually do. Don't want to upset the sunday Football gig!!!
GREASE remindes me a lot of HAIRSPRAY. Yes, I saw that movie last year. Travolta/Wadkin steal the movie as a married couple; and their dance number is the best part...over all HAIRSPRAY is a pretty good musical too. The message isn't subtle, but the music was great.
Oh yeah..this is a GREASE thread...what would you give GREASE on a grade scale...check the poll!!!
Rob
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Grease is da bomb !! Hairspray was great too. Give me Travolta singing, dancing, acting, don't care. Love the dude. And he's a pilot. What can I tell ya?
Favorite Grease song? Summer Lovin'
LOL!
I agree with Tiara, Grease 2 better than the first? Nah....not for me, the first one was the best, after seeing it 7 times back some 30 years ago and that long before I owned the soundtrack, Grease 1 does it all to me where the second one never ever did it for me at all.
Travolta was ssssoooo good in that movie, so was the rest of the cast Stockard Channing and co. This movie was rocking the night away. The soundtrack was a strong as the acting was...no way, Grease opus one for me, the original, without contest, it is the best!
Best song of this great soundtrack I love them all but one still gives me the same goose bumps that it did back then...Summer Lovin'............wow!
Dom
Sound Music is great too though, I'm a lover of this kind of movies, and most Oscar and Hammerstein's movies of the genre were the best, whether the King and I, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Mary Poppins etc. There are multitude of those great singing classics that are part of my favourite movies of all, High Society with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly is also one of them, Louis Armstrong had a cameo in that one, name most of those singing classics I've probably saw each and one of them at least 50 times each. Grease opus 1 was the last one of that genre....which makes it one of the best.
Dom
I have a TRAVOLTA story..
I actually played on a little league team with his Nephew, Tommy Fridley. Tommy's mother is Ellen Travolta (a GH veteran. I think she was Jenny's mom. She ran the bakery as I recall)..anyway, way back in the 70s I was on the team with her son...
Our school, in a small town called Desert Hot Springs (not far from Tristan's Palm Springs) had its anual talent show to raise money for after school programs. Ellen, John Travolta's sister, was part of the PTA. And she was able to get him to come to our school to sing.
He had just made it big on Welcome Back Kotter, and he had just released his song LET HER IN. It was a syrupy ballad, very Barry Manilowish, and he was going to sing it at the show. But the tape he brought of the music, which he was going to sing to at the show, was messed up...Ellen knew that my mom was a classical pianist. And sure enough, John Travolta came to our house to meet my mom so she could learn how to play the song on piano...
So my sisters, 12-13-15 in age, were all giddy eyed as he came to our house to practice. Now, remember, this was before he was the Travolta we know now. But he was very nice and very humble, down to earth. I was 10 and KOTTER was one of my favorite shows of the time. So there I was meeting Vinnie Barbarino...
That's my Travolta story
Rob
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I love that Stockard Channing; she will always be the first and only Rizzo. "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"...love that song. And of course, "Beauty School Dropout" and "Greased Lightning".
Tiara Wrote:I love that Stockard Channing; she will always be the first and only Rizzo. "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"...love that song. And of course, "Beauty School Dropout" and "Greased Lightning".
I loved and adored, I still do, that rebel with a cause, Rizzo was not so hard to understand after all, she was a rebel because she felt all alone, very deep emotions that most teen agers feel, even if Stockard herself was no teen ager anymore she made those emotions real enough....love me some Rizzo and Chinikie..(sp?)
Hey Rob, liked your Travolta story and I too use to like Welcome Back Kotter but, as far as I can recall Ellen Travolta was not the one who played Mrs. Eckert on GH back in the 90's. As far as I'm concerned, I never saw Ellen Travolta again since Grease....
Dom
You know what? She might have played LOIS's mom...I can't recall, but I know she was on GH...Just cant remember when that was....accordng to IMDB she was Gloria Cerullo..who ever that was
Rob
Robert Canary Wrote:You know what? She might have played LOIS's mom...I can't recall, but I know she was on GH...Just cant remember when that was..
Rob
She could have very well been the one playing Mrs. Eckert or Lois's mother, but as far as I can remember and that goes way back to 1977, I don't remember ever seeing Ellen Travolta on GH. I'm sure enough, she wasn't the one who played Mrs. Eckert, although that actress sure looked like her, it wasn't Ellen Travolta.
Joey use to act too, didn't he? I don't know where he is now, but he use to sing too, he was the one who sang Eye of the Tiger for Rocky II, never heard of him since...was it II or III, oh well he did compose the song and he also sang it.
Dom