Speaker 1: This is Deaf Dave and you are listening to my
good friends Dean Jason on the best show on the Internet,
the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's the last scene of the movie and
Patty Birch, the choreographer, has an entire football field that
she's got to compose this dance number for. Except like,
there are dozens of people to choreograph, and she's like,
I can't teach every single person what to do. So
she's got her core group of dancers and she's like, Okay,
divide you guys up into teams. You go teach everybody
else how to do these dance moves. And it became
this huge competition where everybody was like, I'm going to
have the best team, which is why you have this
phenomenal last scene.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's great and everything. I'm a little bit confused though, because.
Speaker 2: Is this the end, of course not, Jason, it's only
the beginning.
Speaker 3: Oh, everybody, welcome back. We are covering Grease the movie today.
We are not talking Grease the soundtrack that comes next week.
So it's gonna be a little tricky because we're gonna
try not to talk about the music today, which is
really am.
Speaker 2: Hard to try, very hard, and just as a teaser,
one of the best known songs from this soundtrack had
a big change made because of the death of one
celebrity and then another celebrity dies on the day they
make the song. If you aren't following our podcast at
this point, you better hit that button so you can
find out that story.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Hey, you know what's weird? Also, last
week I put a tale at the end of this
because I didn't know whether we're gonna cover Grease next
or do the IMDb MVP thing. And you made a
good point. Josh Volta is a great choice for IMDb MVP, right.
Speaker 2: Heck yeah, He's had like over ninety films, some of
them are not so good. Our friends over at the
Famous and Gravy podcast came up with this idea of
doing the IMDb MVP. If you're only able to have
the movies of one particular movie star, you know, and
nothing else, which which one do you pick? Right? And
his point was you probably don't want a leading man
because then you get tired of you know, I'm watching
John Travolta movies every single day, But I mean John
Travolta is in a whole lot of good movies where
he's the leading man. So we're going to get together
with those guys a little bit later on, and we're
going to pick our IMDb MVPs and pit them head
to head and see who comes out the winner.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot of fun. I've already picked mine,
and we've heard some other people who've come up with
really good ideas too, So absolutely, yeah, it's gonna be fun.
That's coming here later on, maybe in December.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Jason. Before we go on, I wanted to
give credit to our executive producer for this episode, Tim Epp.
Tim has been a Patrion member for months and months now,
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Speaker 3: All right, are you ready to get automatic, systematic, and
hydramatic about Grease?
Speaker 2: This is the.
Speaker 3: We'll begin lots.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can put that in there.
Speaker 3: That's okay, we're talking Grease the movie. This was released
in June of nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2: I think everybody knows that this is just the second
step in John Travolta's maybe third step in John Travolta's
epic career. Sure, he grew up wanting to be actually
wanted to be a stage actor. He wanted to sing
and danced on stage in the theater. And also I
wanted to be a pilot. He was successful with one,
but not so much with the other one. And it
turns out it's the pilot that he was successful with.
I saw him doing an interview back in nineteen eighty.
They were talking to him about flying and he's like, yeah,
I got my license a couple of years ago. And
it's like, oh, you've been only been flying two years.
He's like, no, I've been flying for ten years. I've
only been flying for two years illegally. Oh wow, yeah,
I mean he started flying planes in nineteen seventy ish, right.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that he.
Speaker 2: Lived next to an airport and you know, out playing
in the yard as a little kid, that's what he
wanted to do. And the other thing that he wanted
to do was sing and dance on stage. So he
in New York would go and try out for big
stage productions and one of the productions that he tried
out for was Jesus Christ Superstar.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Interesting, and he wasn't cast, but one of the guys
there saw his performance and said to himself, now that
kid is a movie star. He may not be a
Broadway star, but he is a movie star.
Speaker 3: Robert Stigwood, right exactly.
Speaker 2: Stigwood, who was the manager of the Begs. So you know,
no small fry himself. Sure if you want to hear
the full story on Robert Stigwood, which is really a
freaking fascinating story. The whole backstory for Saturday Night Fever
is fascinating. But we compared Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing.
What was that season two?
Speaker 3: Season two?
Speaker 2: I believe, Yeah, okay, you'll get the whole story there,
go check out Saturday Night Fever. But Stigwood saw him
said this guy is a star and kept in mind
for the future, so he doesn't get cast in Jesus
Christ Superstar he is. In nineteen seventy two, he starts
acting in TV. He's in a handful, like half a
dozen or so different TV series, little spots frequently like
guy standing in front of the door, uncredited stuff, right.
But in nineteen seventy five he hits it big with
the character of Vinnie Barberino in a little show called
Mister T and Tina.
Speaker 3: Mister T and Tina.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm looking at his IMDb history and I
was scrolling through. I'm like, I've never heard of it,
never heard of it. Oh, this looks interesting, but he's
like nobody, never heard of it. And then I see
Vinnie Barberino, and I'm like, what the heck show is this.
He did a cameo, as did all of the other
guys from Welcome Back Cotter, in this show that lasted
for six episodes called Mister T and Tina. And Tina
was played by Susan Blanchard, who did a bunch of
horror movies, and mister T was played by mister Pat Maurita.
What Yeah, turns out even casting. The entire crew and
cast of Welcome Back Cotter couldn't save that show. It
was obviously that bad. But I guess Pat landed on
his feet. He did. He took over Al's place on
Happy Days and then ultimately taught Ralph Maccio how to
do some karate, which is interesting because one of those
iconic celebrities that died that I mentioned earlier is this
spitting image of Ralph Mancio. Okay, wait, okay, I'm sorry.
We could keep wanting to go into the song, right,
we can't go in the songs, all right, So he's
Vinnie Barberino and Welcome Back cat Her in seventy five,
has this cameo mister t and Tina in seventy six,
but also in seventy six he appears in Carrie, which
just got covered by our friends over at the Film
By podcast Jeff Amber and I believe it was David
Burns with Yeah, they covered that fantastic episode.
Speaker 3: That's a great companion. Episode two our Kujo Christine in
Dead Zone episode which we released about the same time.
Speaker 2: So exactly exactly. I mean, we might as well toot
our own horn, right, you know, while we're here that year,
he also did the Iconic Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
Speaker 3: And that's where he meets mister Randall Kleisner, Yeah, who
directed him in that movie. And John actually had the
clout to say, I want this guy to direct me
in Greece.
Speaker 2: Here's something that as a kid who was one in
two years old at the time that all of this
was going on, I had no comprehension of You had
to be probably a preteen or teenager at this time
period sure to understand this. But we're talking about a
guy who has been on a TV series for less
than two years and Stigwood remembers him from the Jesus
Christ Superstar audition and signs him to a three picture deal.
Now that's impressive enough, but you'll remember from our Saturday
Night Fever episode. He made a lot of calls on
that show like he was like the dance number. He
was like, this is what the way you filmed this
is terrible. You need to come back. You need to
show my body move and you need to see the dance.
You got it up on my face and they did it.
They didn't. I mean, John Badam was like, am I
the director or you the director? And stick Wood's like
he is making that call, He's the button to do
what he says to do. This is his first real
movie as a star, second real movie as a star.
He's already signing on as co producer with Stigwood, and
he's saying, Hey, you know who would be perfect to
play Sander de Olivia Newton Olvy.
Speaker 3: Noton John. Before we get started on this, tell me
your relationship with Greece. Now this is a little bit
before your time. But for me, I mean I saw
this in the movie there with my mom. I mean
it was a special day and we had a great
time and we both loved it. I'm five years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you? I think I didn't see this
until I was in college. Really, yeah, it was It
was never something that was on my radar. I mean
if I watched musicals when I was a kid, I
watched the Sound of Music or Oklahoma or something like
that was not on the radar for my family. And
this is an interesting story between you and I. It
wasn't until I was in the theater program at OU,
and like it was required not just reading, but watching
and memorizing and choreographing. Every theater student there had to
know all of the words and all of the dance
moves to the songs from Greece.
Speaker 3: Right. And I went to a wedding with a co friend.
This is before you and I even knew each other. Yeah,
and we have a joint friend who was in the
theater department at OU. And I was telling you one time.
I'm like, you know, I went to this wedding and
they played Summer Nights and people broke out in choreographed dance.
I was like, what what is going on here? Who
breaks out into a stage play at a wedding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I told you I not only know probably
who was involved, I could probably also tell you who
was leading the entire show. Yeah, it was Walter Shatley.
Walter came down last weekend. I got to see him.
It was great. But I asked him about it. I'm like,
releading the show. He's like, oh, yeah, of course I was.
Speaker 3: Well, I loved Grease, but I was not prepared to
break out and dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so's it's special. They did it at my wedding too.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Yeah, okay, well fantastic. Do you want
to hear the brief history on the musical of Grease.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the Yeah, let's a movie. Musical
came out in nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 3: That's right. So this was written by a guy named
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Jim Jacobs is an interesting guy.
He's a theater guy. He's a you know, he wanted
to sing and play guitar in a band and loved
rock and roll, like loved old school rock and roll.
His idols were Bill Haley, Elvis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly,
Jery Lee Lewis. He despised, Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: He really was an old school rock and roll kind
of guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he's at a party one day and he's talking
to this guy he just met, and mister Warren Casey,
and he's just remembering the old days of classic rock.
And they decide they're going to start working on a
play together. And it's a it's a play before it's
a musical. So Grease appears in nineteen seventy one the
Kingston Mind Theater in Chicago. There are some producers there,
Ken Wiseman and Maxine Cox, and they watched the plan
and they're like, you know, what plays good. We like it,
but this really needs to be a musical. So at
that point, Warren Casey decides to quit his job. At
the time, he was a department store lingerie buyer. There
are worse jobs in the world than the lingerie buyer
in the apartment store.
Speaker 2: Honey, could you try this song for me? I need
to see if we need to buy these Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the whole thing moved to New York City. They
opened at the Eden Theater in Manhattan, and then eventually
it moved to Broadway. Now, then, there are songs that
were in that first musical that don't make it to
the movie, and there are iconic songs in the movie
that are not in the musical.
Speaker 2: One of them literally written in the middle of shooting
the movie. It's that I can't even believe it the
one song that got nom dominated for an Oscar.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's I know, and they're so vital to
the success of the movie, I think yep. So it
opened on Broadway June seventh, nineteen seventy two. It ran
until nineteen eighty that's thirty three hundred and eighty eight performances.
Speaker 2: How many, three three.
Speaker 3: Hundred eighty eight. It's a lot of.
Speaker 2: Performer, right, and boy were my legs tired.
Speaker 3: So at the time, that's the longest running musical on Broadway.
Right course, Line beat it out a short time after that,
but still so. Now during its run you have mister
Alan Carr who watches this and says to himself, this
would make a great movie, and so he buys the rights. Yep,
Alan Carr purchases the rights. Now the interesting thing is
that Greece had been optioned to be a movie three
or four times before.
Speaker 2: This, Yeah, but nobody would buy it, right.
Speaker 3: So Alan Carr has the option. Mister Robert Stigwood has
offered John Travolta a three pick your deal.
Speaker 2: At this point, I mean, we've already covered Saturday Night Fever.
We should totally do like a John Travolta trifecta. Right,
we've already covered Saturday Night Fever. We are now covering Greece,
and so next, obviously, moment by moment.
Speaker 3: What what.
Speaker 2: That was the sour third act of the trifecta. You
were expecting me to say Urban Cowboy? Yeah? No, Unfortunately
that was not Stigwood's pick. He was not involved in
an Urban Cowboy. The third picture was a movie called
Moment by Moment where Lily Tomlin played Lily Tomlin plays
a depressed socialite whose husband has left her in Beverly
Hills who hooks up with a young stud named Strip
played by mister John Travolta. It was a May December
romance movie that surprising, he did not do very well.
Speaker 3: I have never heard of that movie just now.
Speaker 2: It was the interview that I talked about in nineteen
eighty where he was talking about flying planes. He was like,
so you did Saturday Night Fever and did Grease and
by a moment that didn't seem to do as well.
And what do you do? Then he's in challengeable, is
like make the next movie. Yeah, that's right that the
next movie was Urban Cowboy, and that really should be.
I mean, when we do our final trifecta, because we've
got we've got a friend of yours who's like, this
is the greatest soundtrack of all soundtracks.
Speaker 3: Mister j Reid, my high school buddy. He was like
teasing it up. He's like, you guys are not even
scratching the surface on the greatest soundtrack of all time.
And he sent me like seven rock and roll Hall
of Fame members, I'm like, who in the what is this?
And Urban Cowboy when you look at it, I mean,
Rel Haggard and Eagles and all these guys. It's a
good one.
Speaker 2: You let John travol to take a mulligan on that
Lily Tomlin movie. Yep, and he in three movies involved
with three of the best selling soundtracks in history. I mean,
just think about it. You've got Saturday Night Fever, Yeah,
You've got Grease, and you've got Urban Cowboy. I mean
it was unstoppable. Not only that he changed the fashion
trend in every single movie he was in. The disco
stuff of Saturday Night Fever had fallen out of favor
at that point. They put him in clothes that people
would have been wearing three years before because the bronx
was kind of behind the times, and then because of
the movie it resurged after only falling out three years earlier.
Fifties style comes back in after Grease. Everybody's slicking their hair,
Guys are wearing leather jackets again, girls are doing the
palm palm thing right, and then Urban Cowboy comes out
and suddenly everybody's got the cowboy chick going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, riding the bowl and Cowboy had he was a force.
It's incredible.
Speaker 2: I will say this. Yes, before I watched this movie.
A couple days before I watched this movie, my wife
was insistent that we watched one of three movies, and
the one that we landed on was Look Who's talking.
It was not as funny as I remember when I
was twelve years old.
Speaker 3: But hey, that movie was one of the biggest movies
of nineteen eighty seven. Huge movie. Yeah, And I watched
it and I was like, this movie sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not it's not aged well and it's yeah,
it's not got a good ranking either. It wasn't as bad,
I think as they've got it, but it wasn't moment
by moment bad. But that was pretty bad.
Speaker 3: Bruce Willis as the baby. Ye, okay. So Robert Stigwood,
who had offered John travolt a three picture deal, goes
to him and says, hey, I think it'd be great
for Grease. So John travolt is the first piece in
this puzzle and turns out, I mean he is the
guy who okay, is the director, Like he's the guy
who says, hey, I want mister Randall Kleisner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out he had a great time making
the boy in the Bastic Bubble. Yeah, he said he
just he would let the actors explore. He felt like
that was a huge deal and I worked out really
well with this.
Speaker 3: So here's the other thing. I've heard a couple of
different stories. So Alan Carr met Olivia Newton John at
Helen Reddy's house as like this dinner party thing.
Speaker 2: Helen Ready, Helen Ready, Hollywood Elite, right right now.
Speaker 3: Olivia Newton John had had some hits before Greece. Yeah,
she'd had a couple of number ones. I honestly love
you and have you never been mellow? Very seventies sounding
songs here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And so she was big and kind of the softer rock,
you know, adult contemporary and country. She's cute, she's beautiful,
she's pure looking, girl next door door, girl next door,
that's right.
Speaker 2: The perfect person to play Sandy deep.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, John Travolta said, everybody in the world, every guy
wanted Olivia Newton John to be their girlfriend, right, perfect Sandy.
Speaker 2: And when I heard him say that, I thought, and
every girl in the world wanted John Travolta to be
their boyfriend.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Like, of course this movie was going to explode like
it did. That's right. I just want to say, in
the succession of movies I also saw I can't remember
if it was seventy eight or seventy nine. There's a
movie called Blowout that he's in.
Speaker 3: Eighty one.
Speaker 2: It's eighty one, yep. Okay. He plays like a projectionist.
Speaker 3: I guess he's like a like a folly artist, like
he is not recording. He actually discovers a murder while
he's out trying to record sounds for movies.
Speaker 2: Oh see it high ranked. I've seen other people recommend it,
but I've never seen it. You've seen Signed the Palma. Yeah,
it's great. Okay, it's very good. I need to check
that one out.
Speaker 3: Ran Pauma.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Nancy Ellen I think is in it. Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back with her after Carrie.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's dive into the cast. Are you ready
to dive into the cast?
Speaker 2: Let's dive in. This cast is epic. I can't think
of a poorly cast character in this movie. This is
this can be great.
Speaker 3: Okay, right out of the gate. These people are a
lot older than teenagers.
Speaker 2: They when the when the film by guys were talking
about Carrie. They were like, these guys look really old
for high school. Then Amber was like, with they don't
look as old as the ones from Green. So just
here's a breakdown, because literally, as we're watching the movie,
I watched this with my wife and my daughter. Daughter's
twelve years old. Avery, she says, how old are these people? Beau, Yeah,
he looks like a dad, And I'm like, well, he's
old enough. So here you go here. Filming began in
June of nineteen seventy seven. All right, yep, So in
June of seventy seven, Stockard Channing was thirty three. As
a matter of fact, in nineteen fifty eight, the year
the film is set, she was only three years younger
in the age she was playing there later like Michael
Tucci Sonny was thirty one, Jamie Donnelly was thirty. That's
jan Annette Charles was twenty Nine's cha cha she looked
way older, she did.
Speaker 3: She's a woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Olivia Newton John was twenty eight, Barry Pearl was
twenty seven, Jeff Conaway was twenty six, Deede Cone was
twenty five. John Travolta was twenty three, Dina Manoff was
twenty one, smoking hot, and Kelly Ward yeah like Mary,
she knows. Kelly Ward and Eddie Deason were both twenty
and a young and in incredibly good shape. Lorenzo Lamas
was only nineteen years old. It's incredible if you're doing
the math there, that is a fourteen year difference between
the oldest high school character and the youngest.
Speaker 3: I've got great tidbits on all these guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's enough time to go through all of the
grades in school by the way.
Speaker 3: Wow wow, Okay, So got some tidbits for you on
Danny Zuko. Okay, John Travolta's character. Yes, but that's cool, baby,
I mean, you know how it is rocking and rolling
and whatnot. Okay, So before we go any further, just
kind of on a sad note. We talked about in
our Saturday Night Fever episode where John Travolta's longtime girlfriend
Diana Hyland passed away from breast cancer, right, and he
threw himself into the Tony Manarow role for Saturday Night
Fever as a distraction in getting over her and sort
of grieving her, right yep. And so this is still
kind of in that grieving process, and so he just
checked himself into work and is trying to get over her.
So he loses Diana Hyland to breast cancer. He loses
Olivia Newton John to breast cancer.
Speaker 2: She had been diagnosed actually significantly earlier, had gone into remission.
By the time she was fifty, she had been in
remission for five years. She had become a big, big
advocate for breast cancer research and raising money for that
cancer research.
Speaker 3: And he also lost his wife, Kelly Preston, Kelly freaking
Preston to breast cancer. You want to hear us goo
and guy over Kelly Preston to listen to our Twins episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or our Christine episode, by the way, to raise
money for the cancer project. In twenty nineteen, Olivia Newton
John auctioned off the jacket and the pants that she
wore in that final scene, and I believe the price
tag was somewhere around four hundred and something thousand dollars
for the pair. The pants were bought by the lady
who invented spanks. What really the jacket, which I think
went for like two hundred and thirty six thousand dollars,
was bought by an anonymous donor, who then ultimately returned
the jacket back to Olivinia. John, Well, that's nice, that's
good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this or not. Jon
Travolta had a top ten Hot one hundred hit in
nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, tune in today. We're gonna be playing
let her in. Something she said has to my head
and I can't away. Gun letter in.
Speaker 3: Gun letter in.
Speaker 2: Gun letter in my life.
Speaker 3: You know, what do you think about this one?
Speaker 2: It's nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: He's trying to croon a little bit. Yeah, it does not.
Speaker 2: I bet the girls at seventy six were just melting.
Speaker 3: We talked about how John Travolta had been in Greece
before he played the character of Duty, which is a
much smaller character. He was younger. He wasn't old enough
to play Danny, wasn't studdily enough to play Danny. But
here's the interesting thing. The stories that I hear, it's
always that John Travolta is kind of the first puzzle piece.
But I read some stuff that Henry Winkler aka Arthur
Fonzarelli was offered the part of Danny Zuko at first,
and he said no, he.
Speaker 2: Turned it down because he didn't want to get type
cast as a greaser. Okay, here's the quote for Henry Winkler.
I go home and I have a diet coke.
Speaker 3: John Travolta, who is in the movie, goes home and
buys a plane. He called himself a damn fool for
turning this one down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Henry Winkler, but then we wouldn't have the coach
from Waterboy.
Speaker 3: Listen to this list of Broadway Danny's Okay, so these
guys all conceivably could have played Danny. One in particular
I think would have really been a contender for being
the Danny. Okay, Yeah, so Jeff Conaway played Danny on Broadway.
That's the guy who plays KANICKI okay, right, Peter Gallagher
treat Williams Richard Gear. Wow, now listen to this one.
Speaker 2: Those guys are pretty young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and those guys are movie stars, right yeah.
Patrick Swayze played Danny on Broadway. Wow, before this is
before everything. Really he can sing, he can dance.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you can do comedy Freezer. Look, I mean,
you couldn't name a more similar movie than Dirty Dancing
to this, sure, right right? Speaking of Marashino, the moment
that Marty came out avery, my daughter was like, is
that the girl from Dirty Dancing? Like, no, this is
like ten years before Dirty Dancing?
Speaker 3: Right, Wow? Is it her sister?
Speaker 2: I'm like no, but Jeffer Gray and Dynamanhoff look like
they could easily be sisters.
Speaker 3: Yes. By the way, little tidbit on Danny at the
drive in and try not to talk about the song
that he's singing Sandy. He's on the swing set and
in the background on the movie like there's like, let's
go to the movies.
Speaker 2: You know, let's go to the lobby. That's it, that's
all good, lobby, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Never noticed this before. So he's singing about you know,
Sandy Leavin and he's lost and come back to me
and stranded at the drive in there is a hot
dog where the wiener keeps jumping in and out of
the bun and I'm like, huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting. We didn't mention this, but you know, Alan Carr,
whether it was him meeting her at Helen Reddy's party
or John Travolta saying this is the perfect cast for
this right, because the original character was not from Australia, right, right.
She's like Dombowski was her last name or something, right,
And so he talks to her. She actually asks for
the screen test, like they're offering her the part, and
she's like, can I screen test first?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Usually the studio is the one that wants to screen test,
not the actor. Usually the actor is excited about not
having to do the screen test. She's like, I just
don't want to look bad doing it, right, And so
she does the screen test with John Travoltas make sure
they have good chemistry. But then she also says, I
really don't want my kind of very first real acting
job for me to be doing an American accent and
doing it poorly.
Speaker 3: Sure, you're a psych and a phony, and I wish
I'd never had eyes on you.
Speaker 2: And they said, no problem, we kind of like your
Australian accent. We will change the script.
Speaker 3: So here's the interesting thing to me. One of the
minor plot problems I have with this movie. She meets
Danny at the beach. She's in America. They hook up,
they have this little summer romance. She's going to go
home to Australia. They have a change of plans, that's
what she says.
Speaker 2: Yeah, family has to change plans.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm staying in America. Yeah, she doesn't think to
maybe call him and let him know I'm still in
America or.
Speaker 2: I don't know how far ryde Ell High is from
the beach. I don't know how many high schools were around.
This is California, that could be all over the place. True,
people don't have cell phones back then, that's true. They
maybe they just met on the I've I've had a
few girls that I just met on the each before.
But you said, you said something they hook up, right, Yes,
and so you've got the very first big song. Yes,
is her playing down the sexual part of their relationship.
Don't spoil it, Danny and him playing it up? Sure,
who's lying. Did they get busy?
Speaker 3: No, No way.
Speaker 2: They get busy.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. She's a good girl, all right. I do
think that they really nailed that tone, though, because there's
a fine line to be walked where the audience is
going to either side with the good girl or side
with the bad boy. But I think that they do
such a good job. I think that Danny does love her.
That doesn't mean he's not a horn dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or a guy who wants to show up for
his friends, of course.
Speaker 3: But when they see when they are reunited, and Riz
sets him up and does that on purpose so he'll
make a rear out of himself, which he probably does.
It hurts it. He acts like a butt. Heead Sandy
calls him a fake and a phony, and I never
want to see you again. And she leaves and Riz
knew the whole time he's going to do this, and
she stares at him and he stares back at her,
and he's hurt. So I really do think he loves her.
Speaker 2: I think it's funny that before you started that you
said you think they really nailed the tone, because the
image in my head that proves to me that she
was telling the truth and that he was lying was
the scene where she slams the door and nails the bone.
Speaker 3: That is the funniest laugh out loud moment in the
entire movie.
Speaker 2: She really nailed the bone on this one when she.
Speaker 3: Gets out of the sin wagon and nails the bone
with the door, and he's like, oh, yeah, so funny.
Let me give you the list of possible Sandy's okay, okay,
tell me about it. Think with me back to nineteen
seventy seven. Okay, okay and Margaret and Margaret.
Speaker 2: Okay, so and Margaret. Oh that's what it was. So
Diana Manoff. I wanted to look because I remembered her
from being an Empty Nest. You remember that TV show? Yeah,
you know, she was one of the daughters an Empty Nests.
I remember for that. But I'm like, she's got to
have been in something else. She's just got a very
memorable face. No, nothing except for this one movie called
I Ought to Be in Pictures with Walter mathou And
and Margaret.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would not have brought that tid bat up
had you not said a that was to do an
uninteresting a tidbit.
Speaker 3: Thirty or freaking grubby old men.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, there you go.
Speaker 3: I've got a tidbit for you on Dyna man Off
that I'm going to blow your socks off with here
in a second.
Speaker 2: Anything involving Dyna man Off and blowing I'm good.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here are your other possible Sandy's, yes, and Margaret,
we talked about Susan Day, Debora Raff, and these are
seventies actresses Carrie Fisher. Yeah, if you listen to our
Star Wars Holiday special episode, you will hear Carrie Fisher sing.
Speaker 2: Oh my special.
Speaker 3: I don't think she's a great singer.
Speaker 2: No, that would not have worked in this, right, not
have worked in this.
Speaker 3: She's beautiful. Yeah, I think she can pull off the
good girl bag all thing. Oh, she just can't sing.
Now here you go. Here's two people who could sing
and are I think legit possibilities, especially at time. Okay,
Marie Osmond, come on, Sandy, don't make me laugh. She
turned down the.
Speaker 2: Role, Yeah she didn't. She later in an interview, said
she knew she wanted to be a mom and she
didn't want to have to explain to her kids why
the girl had to become a bad girl in order
to get the guy right.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the good girl bad girl thing. Okay.
My idea is that they met in the middle. He
became a little more jock, she became a little more
te bird. She wasn't like she threw all of her
morals out the window forever and ever.
Speaker 2: She did not have to burn her virginity at the stake. No,
she came out dressed in tight pants and smoking a
cigarette and doing terrible job at it. Right, and it's funny,
it's not right, Like there's this idea that this is
not a good commentary on the way women should have
to behave in all of that, or maybe it's a
commentary on the way things were going in the seventies. Anyway,
I don't know, right, but I don't think any of
that really kind of came up until well after the
movie had been out for years. Sure over analyzing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, get a life, people, okay. And the last
one I want to bring up to you Linda Ronstadt,
ooh yeah, good girl, back girl.
Speaker 2: She was still foxy.
Speaker 3: She was foxy and boy she could sing oh yeah right.
Speaker 2: I don't know she could act, but man, she would have. Yeah,
that'd have been a good one.
Speaker 3: I like how she was sewn into her pants. We talked, yeah,
you know, in the scene the leather pants.
Speaker 2: She said the pants were actually from the fifties, like,
and they were supposed to be elastic, but she's like,
after twenty years the elastic was gone, but the zipper broke.
That's where they had to sow her in.
Speaker 3: She was still she was worried about eating and drinking
all day long. She's She's like, I can't pee. I'm
sewn into my pants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she probably couldn't bend over at a right angle.
I mean, gim and e.
Speaker 3: By the way, at the premiere, at the premiere, I
thought this was really funny when she attended the premiere
with John Travolta and they went to the premiere Grease.
When she showed up the premiere, she was wearing a
prom dress. When she came out of the movie, she
was wearing like the pink stretch pants, like the hotpants.
Oh nice, good girl, bag girl. Before we end this,
I want to talk to you about the possibility that
Sandy actually drown at the beginning of the movie.
Speaker 2: What do you know about this? No, you're gonna have
to fill me in on this nonsense.
Speaker 3: Okay, hear me out and we'll talk about it more
at the end. There is a fan theory out there
that says at the beginning, when she's at the beach
with Danny, she has a swimming accident where she drowns,
and the reason why people suspect that the whole Grease
movie is this sort of fever dream before she dies
and goes to Heaven is the final scene in the
movie when she gets in the car and the car
takes flight and goes to the clouds. Explain that in
real life.
Speaker 2: It's a fairy tale ending like a Disney movie. I
find that fan theory even less believable than the Cloak
and Dagger fight club theory.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's move on to the t Birds
real quick. Jeff Conaway plays KANICKI.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's with you tonight?
Speaker 3: You've got the personality of a wet mom. Don't start
with me. She's a fine Okay, eureka, how about I
finished with you, hunk?
Speaker 2: That is stuff.
Speaker 1: To you for mein Lee.
Speaker 3: Sorry French. Yes, he had played Danny on Broadway. So
he died a few years ago, like twenty eleven. I
think pneumonia related to chronic drug use. So I'm on
the Doctor Drew Show. He was in bad shame dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it, without getting too much into the song.
Because of the song, he had an accident while they
were filming the Grease Lightning song that led to him
doing pain pills and getting addicted to those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the higgys that Riz has. Jeff Conway
insisted on giving those to her himself for real. I
thank you from Kinicki's like a Hallmark card. Okay, one
last tidbit I've got on Jeff Conway. Yes, he was
infatuated with Olivia Newton John. Yes, tongue tied when he
was around her. Who wouldn't be right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: He actually married her sister, Yeah, Rona Newton John.
Speaker 2: Yep, I had to look her up.
Speaker 3: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Not quite as pretty as Olivia Newton John, but I'm
a little less wholesome, a little more dangerous.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Okay. The three guys that played the rest of
the Tea Birds, Yes, hey, you've got Duty, played by
Barry Peel Duty. I know what a terrible name he
actually did. I mean he was in Barney Miller. It
is enough Hill Street Blues, Alice.
Speaker 2: Just that we know this. Those guys' names are Sonny,
Duty and Putsy Right. And they're playing the Three Stooges
the entire movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, Randall Kleisner said, hey, guys, I want you
to do some sort of Three Stooges thing. So they
went off and they came up with that whole thing
on their own.
Speaker 2: Brilliant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly Ward, the guy who played Putsy, he was.
He had been in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
with John Travolta before this.
Speaker 3: I think that's how he got the job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, So you know, he became a dialogue director,
like he works in animated movies and is the dialogue
director for voice over actors.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, you know, he had been in Magnum p I,
Quincy m E Mash, The Waltons. All these guys are
covering sort of all the seventies and eighties bases in television. Yep, Sonny,
who is Michael Tucci? You said he was like thirty one.
I mean he's been in the Gary Salin Show and
he actually ended up as a high school teacher.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: I hope he doesn't take any crap from anyone. He
passed out at the dance, like when they did the
big dance thing, no Ac, California. It's hotter and crap.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so they had to use the gym, the gymnasium.
That was the very first scene that they filmed, by
the way, which was great because it got the cast
to like dance around together, get familiar. You're with each
other before they're having to like deliver lines and stuff
like that. But yeah, it was they had to do
it during the summer, so the school was an incession
and there was no ac in the building.
Speaker 3: If you've ever been to a high school dance, you
know there's no place freaking hotter in the world than
a high school dance.
Speaker 2: Yep, and especially when you're dancing cheek cheek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when it's the middle of summer and you're
thirty five years old. Right, Okay, let's move over to
the pink ladies. Heading up the Pink Ladies, you got Rizzo,
Tell me by my first name, Betty, Betty, Betty Rizzo,
Eddie Rizzo, Bythuini riz Well, I think.
Speaker 4: He sounds peachy.
Speaker 2: Stockard Channing, Yeah, you sent me a video of her
first appearance on television and it was on Sesame Street.
You remember the guy who wore the little Beanie hat.
He played the butler in something. I can't remember what
he played the butler in, but he would wear the
he wore the little Derby hat with a trench coat
and he would walk around and he would paint numbers
on things. And for this one he met Stockard Channing
and she's beautiful. She's just beautiful. Scene too. She's having
a little picnic lunch and he keeps trying to paint
with the mayonnaise and the mustard and ketchup on the
bread and she keeps grabbing it and sticking it on
the sandwich. And then he finally gets one done and
she grabs it, puts it on the sandwich and like
it's three feet tall, but she still managed to put
it all in her mouth.
Speaker 3: So they hired Stockard Channing. She was actually like Alan
Carr was like her sort of friend slash manager. They
had been looking for this really important part. She's got
to be damaged goods sort of but hate her. She's
got to kind of be mean, yeah, mean lovable, right.
So the person they wanted was Lucy Arnettz. This is
Desi Arnez and Lucy I love Lucille Ball. Yeah, it's
their daughter. And here's what happened. They brought her in
there like, hey, we want you for Rizz? Can you
audition for Rizz? And mom, Lucille Ball loses her mind
and says, you mean audition. I used to own this studio.
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And so they're like, we probably better not hire her,
you know. Wow, So mom got crazy and they're like, nope,
we're not doing this. So Alan Carr's talking to Stocker
Channing on the phone one day and says, you know what,
we're having a hard time with her. Would you be interested?
Would you come down?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he says. He says that he's like, we're having
a real hard time finding Riz and she's like, huh
I silence right, which, of course, I mean she's thirty
one years old, they're thirty two at this point. She's
got to be like, well, not me, right, why would
you me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Would you come read? Like And it was almost as
if she heard the wheels clicking in his head as
he said it. Like he's just talking to her as
a friend about the problems they're having, and then all
of a sudden he's like, wait a.
Speaker 3: Minute, what are you doing this afternoon? Now? Then let's
talk about Frenchie okay, played by d Econ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, men are rats to me, they're fleas on rats.
Speaker 2: Worse than that, there were members.
Speaker 3: Of fleas on rats.
Speaker 1: I mean they had.
Speaker 4: Too low fever and the dogs to bite.
Speaker 2: The only man a girl can depend on is a daddy.
Speaker 3: We talked about her in our Saturday Night Fever episode.
She eventually married David Schier, who was one of the
composers on the Saturday Night Fever out album Wow Okay,
who had previously been married to Talia Shire.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So she was going to audition for this, right,
Her manager told her to go audition for this, yep.
And she goes to the studio and she said, and
they have you know, they've got the little like security
desk at the front or whatever little office is at
the front. And as she comes in, this is the
day before. She's just trying to kind of, you know,
work off the nerves. And she sees this guy standing
at this desk and it's got all these copies xerox
copies of the script for Greece, and she's like, you
gotta let me see one of these, right, because that
way I can read, I can like figure out what
the part is about, and that way I'll do the
best tomorrow. And he's like, I can't let these go.
She's like please. He's like, looks around. He's like, okay,
get under the desk.
Speaker 3: She crawls between his legs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, just to read the script, just to read
the script.
Speaker 3: She's on the floor literally in the security guard station
reading the.
Speaker 2: Script as he's standing in front of the desk.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I'll tell you what she is. Awesome movie.
Speaker 2: She's perfect. And they knew she was perfect as soon
as she came in.
Speaker 3: They heard her squeaky voice and they're like, that's it.
Speaker 2: Yep, French.
Speaker 3: She's actually the only person in Greece Grease too, Grease Live.
Then you've got Jan played by Jamie Donnelly.
Speaker 4: New White pan with the redio flavor. It's Dandy for
your tea bya, but your buts out. He can't Jon
Fast Fast last joy.
Speaker 2: Right. She actually came back and did the show again
on Broadway playing the same character. How about that her
hair was turning gray at that point, her hair was.
Speaker 3: Turning gray in nineteen seventy eight. They had to color
it with like magic marker. Oh wow, Yeah, she's all
white nowadays. She looks like an old lady.
Speaker 2: She is an old lady.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dina man Huff, We've been talking about her a
little bit. She plays Marty Maraschino. Uh, here's the tidbit
I'm ready to drop on you. Okay, Yeah, So, first
of all, she was in Welcome Back Caught Her. Yes,
probably a little bit of connection there, right, sure, it's
all who you know. She's the daughter of Lee Grant
and Arnold manoff Lee Grant Old Hollywood. You said that
she had been in a couple of different movies. You
didn't really recognize her, trying to place her. Uh huh,
All right, listen to this. She was in Child's Play.
She is Chucky's first victim.
Speaker 2: Wow, do you remember.
Speaker 3: When he slashes the lady and she falls out of
the window. Is in the trailer and that's Dyna Man
in Greece. We have Chucky's first victim. And here in
a second, I'm gonna tell you about Michael Myers's first victim. Maybe.
Speaker 2: Okay, stay with me. I'm excited. Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, then we got a couple of secondary people I
want to talk about real quick.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So you've got Eddie Deson, who played Eugene war Games. Yeah,
he's in War Games.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you've seen Polar Express, the nerdy kid that
looks kind of like Corey Feldman in Polar Express, it's
voiced by him. Perfect voice for a nerdy kid, because
he's got the nerdy voice.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, he does have that nerdy voice very nasally.
He was in nineteen forty one. He was in Follow
That Bird. Okay, follow that Bird, Follow that Bird Bird movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, come on, I don't know how I forgot that.
Speaker 3: And apparently during the filming of this movie, like Jeff Conaway,
his soul mission was to get Eddie Deson laid.
Speaker 2: So gosh, that's that's just like high school.
Speaker 3: Does that sound like high school?
Speaker 2: Sounds like high school? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Susan Buckner played Patty Simcocks. It was a Fox Miss
Washington nineteen seventy one. Uh huh, and was a top
ten Miss America contested nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2: I told you, and I forgive me because I may
be like creating a memory that doesn't actually exist. But
I saw her host some sort of behind the scenes
thing for that show. She alluded to the fact that
basically she kind of went from trailer to trailer hooking
up with these guys, which I mean, these were the
stars of the day. So I guess so young high
for each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know for sure that she and Jeff Conaway
had a fling. Yeah, Jeff Conway said, we had to
practice lifting her dress over her head. Okay, let's talk
about Tom Chisholm, played by mister nineteen year old Lorenzo Lamas.
Speaker 2: Do you know who was supposed to originally play this part?
Speaker 3: Tell me about it instead.
Speaker 2: So the quote unquote actor's name is Stephen Ford. Yes,
this movie is filmed in nineteen seventy seven. President Gerald
Ford's son is the guy who's supposed to play the
young handsome jock. He bows out to do to quote
unquote stage fright.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I mean there's not a stage. That's a theater thing.
I don't know what you're talking about with stage fright. Yeah,
he just chickened out.
Speaker 3: All he had to do is just say hi, how
are you?
Speaker 2: He literally had no lines he did he mouthed the
lines that he had. Yeah, there was nothing. He just
had to go out there and look good. And I
think he was maybe he was scared he wasn't gonna
look good, or maybe Dad said you're not going to
go out there and be the pretty boy that I.
Speaker 3: Could see a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The second guy, and they had mine was Mark Fidrich.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: And Major League Baseball got in the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a picture for the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 3: Right by the way, the way Lorenzo Olamas got this role. Yes,
his mom who is Arlene Dahl? Okay, he escorted her
to the nineteen seventy seven Oscars and his mom, Arlene Dahl,
is a famous actress.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: She walked right over to Tallon Carr said, this is
my son, Lorenzo. You better hire him.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, I mean he was. He was great in
this part. And he looked different than I remember him.
I mean I remember him in those cheesy shows with
the long hair Renegade. Yeah, that was terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was also a Falcon crest too, right, he was,
he was.
Speaker 3: Okay, a couple of quick notes for you. Crater Face
played by Dennis Cleveland Stewart. Now, I watched Moonlighting just
the other day. He's a bad guy in moon one
of the Moonlighting episodes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He plays like a punk rocker. He's got a mohawk
and stuff like that. He plays crater Face. He actually
died of AIDS in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: Oh tragic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's some tragedy on the set. Cha Chaw
played by Annette Charles. She was actually pregnant during the thunder.
Speaker 2: Road scene topic pregnancy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was actually in terrible pain, really sick, barely
barely standing. Luckily she felt good enough to throw down
the scarf. She died of lung cancer in twenty eleven. Now,
then Eve Alden Dody Goodman said, Caesar is in this movie.
Speaker 2: You know who was supposed to play the said Caesar part,
the coach Calhoun Park. Tell me this guy's name is
Harry Reims.
Speaker 3: Tell me how I know that?
Speaker 2: Because he was a porn star, most famous for appearing
in the movie Deep Throat and getting charged under the
obscenity laws for his participation in the movie. Yes, word comes.
Speaker 3: Back in some I think the movie watching public have
trouble with that, maybe since he's just great in this movie. Yeah,
he's like, you gotta balance his son. You gotta try,
you gotta try.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, then you have Michael Bean in his movie debut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a cameo because he wasn't anybody at
this point. He was an extra.
Speaker 3: For those of you who don't know, I mean, this
is the guy who played recent Terminator and Hicks and Aliens.
Speaker 2: Johnny Ringo and Johnny Ringo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the guy sitting next to Patty Simcocks when
they put a frog inner purse or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the guy that John Travolta punches in the
stomach when they're playing basketball. That's it. Ah, you're a hitter.
Speaker 3: How about that? Michael Bean Bean, Michael Bean all right,
I got one more name for you, okay, John Michael Graham.
That ring a bell for you.
Speaker 2: No, you're gonna have to give me more on that one,
all right.
Speaker 3: John Michael Graham was a background dancer in Greece.
Speaker 2: I think I know this. Okay, I think I know this.
He was the boyfriend in Halloween. Was he PJ. Soul's boyfriend?
Speaker 3: Yep, you got it, Bob, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, background dancer? Is Was he Michael myers first victim?
Speaker 3: I think he was Michael Myers's first adult victim right
up on his escape. That's right, yes, Bob from Halloween. Wow,
that's all for the cast. I do have one thing
that I found really interesting though. At the end of
the movie, when Danny and Sandy are flying to the
clouds in their car, they actually kiss. We don't ever
see on screen Danny and Sandy.
Speaker 2: Kiss until that last moment.
Speaker 3: Well, the last moment didn't make it because there's some
problem with the film, and so it only exists in
black and white, really, and they never ever got that
chance again, or didn't realize that there was a problem
until it was too late and they couldn't get everybody back,
and they couldn't do the thing. So they tried to
convert that black and white to color.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: They could never figure out how to do it, so
we never see Danny Sandy kiss.
Speaker 2: The entire cal Ted Turner.
Speaker 3: Alright, know, right, that's all for the cast, Okay, d So,
I got a couple of tibits for you before we
wrap this one up. The word grease has never mentioned
the entire movie. Now they say greased like greased lightning. Yeah,
never say song. Yeah, I got the song that was
actually kind of go into the music. Sorry, sorry, you
gotta wait the word is spoken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to. You gotta tune in for our
next episode to hear all about the songs, right yep?
Speaker 3: Okay. So John Travolta started filming this, or started rehearsing
this four days after Saturday Night Favor, four days, four
days he had to switch from Tony Manaro to Danny
Zuko pretty quick. I told you about we had the
hot Dog the movie right where the Bun and the Winterer,
and yeah, that was pretty cool. I never really realized
that they actually planned a sequel to Grease. No, we're
not talking Greece to Amandagenic. We're talking Summer School that
was supposed to come out right afterwards. Oh okay, where
the guys, the tea birds and stuff were back in
summer school with coach you know, Sid Caesar. Yep, that
didn't never happen. Yeah, but it's kind of interesting to
think about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had even talked about doing a Grease three
after Greece Too bombed. There were supposed to be Greece three,
but after Grease two bombed they didn't do it. But
then talks resumed again much later, twenty years later in
the nineties, and the talk was, well, maybe we make
these you know, maybe we come back where these characters
are twenty years later, you know, make it a show
in the seventies. Which how interesting would that have been?
Speaker 3: I think that had been fun. Yeah, you know, the
Breakfast Club wanted to do the exact same thing. Yeah,
come back to your twenty year reunion. Yeah, be fun
revisit the character for me and you if you can
make a good movie out of it, though, Yeah, I
can see that.
Speaker 2: And obviously we've lost to you know, we lost Olivia Newton, John,
we lost Jeff Conway.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not the same without those.
Speaker 3: That's right right by the way.
Speaker 2: Tibbit for you.
Speaker 3: The original play that opened at the Eton Theater February fourteenth,
nineteen seventy two had Barry bostwickaus Danny. Have you ever
seen a Rocky Horror picture show? Adrian Barbo as Riz
Shut up?
Speaker 2: Yep? Wow?
Speaker 3: All right, So that's all the tidbits I got right
there except one. There was a time when Greece was
in the top three highest grossing movies of all time?
Can you name the other two?
Speaker 2: Yes? I can, but why don't you tell me so?
Speaker 3: Grease was number three? Ye Star Wars was number two,
and number one at the time, Jaws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one for Paramount. This was the second highest
grossing movie they had ever had. Of course, they produced
The Godfather, so that one beat it. But that's still
pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you and I were talking. I am not a
musical guy.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: If it says musical, I'm out pretty much Greatest Showman,
No Thanks, Sound of Music, Watch all the Time, West Side,
Still no Thanks.
Speaker 2: It eclipsed the Sound of Music as the highest grossing
musical of all time. Sound of Music came out thirteen
years before totally ran the show for that thirteen years
until Grease and knocked it out of the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a tsunami in pop culture in nineteen
seventy eight. Indeed, we're going to compare this to the
soundtrack next week.
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tying our tongues up so we don't talk about the
songs in this movie. But next week we're going to
talk about who wrote the incredible title track. It'll shock you.
The bad words that are in Grease Lightning. We'll talk
about that.
Speaker 2: My wife said, say tipped, and we're.
Speaker 3: Going to talk about several number one hits that were
like last second additions to the movie. Come back next
week and.
Speaker 2: Check it out. Bye guys, Thanks so much,