BLOBBY'S BLOG

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It's time I come clean. I......I...........I've never seen Grease!

Yes - it's true. There! I've said it.

Actually, I am quite proud of the fact that I have not sat through John Ravolta and Olivia Newton-John prance through high school at the ripe old age of 32....which is only about 4 years younger than Stockard Channing probably was.

Hearing the 'hits' on the radio was unavoidable, so yes, I am familiar with some of the music, but my musical tastes in 1978 ran a little differently than that soundtrack. It was the Eddie Money era!!! I'm kidding!!!!!!!! I mean, it was the height of Eddie's popularity, just not with me. (side note: I once did see Slusser and Becky sing most every song while drunk- them and me.)

The odd thing is - I've seen Grease 2. Probably more than a dozen times. I know - you're saying: how can he possibly even pick up on where Grease 2 starts if he never saw the prequel? But really it's not that hard - I suppose.

Back in the day of early cable, whomever was showing G2 clearly only had access to 4 movies. This one was on ALL the time. Even more than USA Network shows Overboard! If that is any indication how often it was on.

But Grease 2 really is a delight in all the campy ways. Jellystone Park doesn't have as much campground as this thing. First and foremost - it's the cast. Michelle Pfeiffer!!! (You never see anyone asking her about this in any interview she has ever done. Ever. That chick must have some great publicist.) Lorna Luft! Adrian Zmed! ...the list goes on and.....no wait.....the list stop there. Ok, Connie Steven and Tab Hunter. Kathy Griffin only thinks she's on the D-list. If she is - these guys are H-list.

Then of course, there is the music. You don't get any better than Michelle straddling a ladder and singing "Cool Rider". Though equally bad and yet good (in a bad way) is Adrian Zmed & co singing about 'scoring' while bowling. Twyla Tharp and Agnes DeMille couldn't have done better choreography with bowling balls. And Lorna lives up to her mother and sister's reputation of courting the fags by singing 'Reproduction' to Tab Hunter. Good luck on that one sweetie!

To be honest, I never really would have watched this in the first place if it weren't for the Mansfield twins. Joe & John were eccentric. And I'm putting that nicely. Remind me sometime to write in-depth about them. They insisted we watch - and clearly they already had since they knew every line of the movie. I kid you not!

Oh - but you're probably wondering why I'm prattling on about Grease 2. Well, it's because NBC has a new American Idol-ish show on sometime soon. The participants compete to be on Broadway for the revival of Grease (not Grease 2 - which I suspect was never on Broadway!). This is how far we've fallen down the TV food chain.

Oh - and I've never seen E.T. pfffffffffffft!