movie: Grease

The musical Grease of 1978 is pure fun. It is the story of High School Seniors Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Sandy Dee (Olivia Newton-John).

Sandy and Danny spend their Summer vacation together enjoying a short but happy romance. Believing they will never meet again they sing their goodbyes at summer’s end. Of course they do meet again. They attend the same school. They spend their Senior year circling one another trying to re-connect without looking desperate or obvious to their respective chums: the Pink Ladies for Sandy and the Thunderbirds for Danny.

I loved the Pink Ladies sleepover. It has the Ipana song with Bucky Beaver on an old black and white. There is also an old paint-by-number hanging over the bed, unfinished though. You can still see the numbers printed on the canvas.
For munchies the girls share Twinkies and wine.
Marty: (Dinah Manoff) "Twinkies and wine!?"
Jan: (Jamie Donnelly) "Says right here it’s a desert wine. Itallian Swiss Colony, Wow! It’s imported!"

After Mike and I had been married a couple of months Mike confessed that he had been “in love” with Olivia Newton-John and originally had planned to marry her. Obviously he met me.

Olivia belts out songs in her sweet but powerful voice. Her last song is a duet with John Travolta: “You’re The One That I Want”. She sings and dances her way through this in an amazingly tight looking pair of black pants and heels. At any moment it seems she might turn blue, gasp, stumble, or miss a step. But she moves flawlessly.

When John Travolta did the Greased Lightening song I reconnected Mike’s surround sound. And it was good.