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Grease/Happy Days Grease/Happy Days what do think of a Film&Tv Show trying to Bring back the 50's in the 70's?? also John Travolta or Henry Winkler who was the Coolest to you overall??? also the Music In Grease&the Music used for Happy Days any thoughts?? mistermaxxx | |
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ps, the best of all of this was Weezer visiting Happy Days in their video, that was the coolest part and the best music...
a distant second was Michele Pfeifer in the classic Grease 2  | |
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A little trivia about the movie "Grease"...
***Originally,Henry Winkler (Fonzie on "Happy Days") was supposed to star in this movie,playing Danny Zuko.He foolishly passed on the role,and it was given to John Travolta instead. ***Marie Osmond auditioned to play the role of Sandy,but it was given to Olivia Newton-John.It was Travolta who suggested to the filmmakers that they hire Olivia for the role. ***The movie's theme song "Grease" by Frankie Valli was written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. ***Have any of you ever read the original script? It is very different from the actual movie!! | |
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DavidEye said: A little trivia about the movie "Grease"...
Thanks Man.the only thing I knew about was Frankie Valli singing the Song that Barry Gibb had wrote.Man You Are BADD!!! I Dig when A Thread like this is Started because Man you truly Bring Many Great Points&Trivia to Light.Right On MAN!!***Originally,Henry Winkler (Fonzie on "Happy Days") was supposed to star in this movie,playing Danny Zuko.He foolishly passed on the role,and it was given to John Travolta instead. ***Marie Osmond auditioned to play the role of Sandy,but it was given to Olivia Newton-John.It was Travolta who suggested to the filmmakers that they hire Olivia for the role. ***The movie's theme song "Grease" by Frankie Valli was written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. ***Have any of you ever read the original script? It is very different from the actual movie!! mistermaxxx | |
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mistermaxxx said: I Dig when A Thread like this is Started because Man you truly Bring Many Great Points&Trivia to Light.Right On MAN!!
DavidEye is always chock full o' good info...keep it coming!  | |
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mistermaxxx said: Grease/Happy Days what do think of a Film&Tv Show trying to Bring back the 50's in the 70's?? also John Travolta or Henry Winkler who was the Coolest to you overall??? also the Music In Grease&the Music used for Happy Days any thoughts??
The 70's Rocked!!! The music really said something back then, and I'm not talking about Disco, I'm talking about the Rock and R&B. I'd glady revisit the 70's but not the fashion aspect of it..As far as Fonzie and Danny Zuko...Well they were both cool in different ways..John definetly was a better dancer, and much sexier...but Fonzie knew how to work a room, and get what he wanted...The Soundtrack to Grease will always be one of my all time favorites...I can still sing along and know all the words..Actually the song Grease is a pretty cool statement. Conventionality belongs to yesterday...WE start believing now that we can be what we feel...Grease is the word...Grease is the word is the word that u heard, it's got a groove, it's got a meaning..Grease is the time is the place is the motion, now grease is the way we are feeling. . (something like that...okay I admit, I know the girl songs better..like Hopelessly Devoted...LOL) | |
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Grease has always been & always will be one of my favorite movies of all time. Though the moral message in Grease is one I'll never understand: Sandy is being her pure self & isn't accepted...so she decides to dress like a slut & start smoking cigarettes & everyone accepts her. Her & Danny live happily ever after, even though she has turned into someone she isn't.
Huh?!? WTF?!? "You're a fake & a phony & I wish I'd never laid eyes on you!!!" Who's the fake & a phony now, hmmm, Sandy...hmmm?!!!? Eye no, eye no...it's just a movie!!! | |
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XtrueX said: Grease has always been & always will be one of my favorite movies of all time. Though the moral message in Grease is one I'll never understand: Sandy is being her pure self & isn't accepted...so she decides to dress like a slut & start smoking cigarettes & everyone accepts her. Her & Danny live happily ever after, even though she has turned into someone she isn't.
Huh?!? WTF?!? "You're a fake & a phony & I wish I'd never laid eyes on you!!!" Who's the fake & a phony now, hmmm, Sandy...hmmm?!!!? Eye no, eye no...it's just a movie!!! Good point.But remember,Danny was willing to "change" too,in order to get Sandy back.So,I guess it's about compromise...she changed into a sexy,hot mama and presumably,he changed into a more respectable character at the end? Somewhere,there's a moral lost in there...lol... | |
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endorphin74 said: mistermaxxx said: I Dig when A Thread like this is Started because Man you truly Bring Many Great Points&Trivia to Light.Right On MAN!!
DavidEye is always chock full o' good info...keep it coming! mistermaxxx | |
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Wasn't HAPPY DAYS staged in Wisconsin?
Anybody smell the "cheese" ? I heartily despised this piece of pop fluff as 50s Civil rights were underway and there were all kinds of black folks moving out of the South into urban centers in the North and even to the suburbs. To paraphrase Buggin Out from Do the Right Thing: Why weren't there no black people on this show? HD really chickened out on the race issue. There were so many opportunities to touch on interracial dating. Matter-of-fact, most 50s flicks dodged the race issue entirely. GREASE punked out tremendously by using an AUSTRAILIAN exchange student. How white can you get? Anybody see "LIBERTY HEIGHTS"? Now that caught the tenor of the times perfectly. A black doctor moves into a Baltimore suburb and a Jewish kid takes an interest in his daughter. Their first date is staged around a James Brown concert in '54. This is a really cool movie. 
Besides we had only 1 TV back then and I used to fight with my sister trying to watch basketball.  [This message was edited Fri Jul 19 12:07:44 PDT 2002 by PFunkjazz] test | |
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I loved watching Happy Days reruns when I was younger but I could never stand Grease. It was too corny and these obnoxious kids I went to high school with were always singing the songs.  But Happy Days never bothered me. Maybe it was the lack of overdone musical numbers. | |
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PFunkjazz said: Wasn't HAPPY DAYS staged in Wisconsin?
Happy days had your Token Roles.The Cunningham Family wasn't that Liberal Man.Wisconsin for Happy Days&Laverine&Shirley.they Brought in Mark(Robbin Williams) from Mark&Mindy Out of Space but dealing with Black&White Romance was too far out of space for them I Guess? Jenny Pickalu(Misspelled) the Happy Days Groupie after Richie Left seemed Willing to Get down with anybody I know they could have used Her in a Interracial Setting.we know Joni wouldn't be touched even though She had that Cute Curl.Great Points Man.Props on thatAnybody smell the "cheese" ? I heartily despised this piece of pop fluff as 50s Civil rights were underway and there were all kinds of black folks moving out of the South into urban centers in the North and even to the suburbs. To paraphrase Buggin Out from Do the Right Thing: Why weren't there no black people on this show? HD really chickened out on the race issue. There were so many opportunities to touch on interracial dating. Matter-of-fact, most 50s flicks dodged the race issue entirely. GREASE punked out tremendously by using an AUSTRAILIAN exchange student. How white can you get? Anybody see "LIBERTY HEIGHTS"? Now that caught the tenor of the times perfectly. A black doctor moves into a Baltimore suburb and a Jewish kid takes an interest in his daughter. Their first date is staged around a James Brown concert in '54. This is a really cool movie.
Besides we had only 1 TV back then and I used to fight with my sister trying to watch basketball.
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Anyone care to tell me exactly what was cool about a guy in his mid 20s who lived in a garage above a middle class family, fixed cars for a living & hung out with high school kids who couldn't get chicks? Heyyy.. | |
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IrishEcho said: Anyone care to tell me exactly what was cool about a guy in his mid 20s who lived in a garage above a middle class family, fixed cars for a living & hung out with high school kids who couldn't get chicks? Heyyy..
Technically, he should have been out jackin' those punkass white boys and had a bunch of "baby-mamas" runnin' around. test | |
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IrishEcho said: Anyone care to tell me exactly what was cool about a guy in his mid 20s who lived in a garage above a middle class family, fixed cars for a living & hung out with high school kids who couldn't get chicks? Heyyy.. because within Our Culture as a Man you never have to Grow Up&can Live off the Hook-Up.mistermaxxx | |
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PFunkjazz said: Why weren't there no black people on this show? Did u forget about "Sticks" the drummer? Har-dee-har. Bad TV. VERY bad. | |
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mistermaxxx said: Grease/Happy Days what do think of a Film&Tv Show trying to Bring back the 50's in the 70's??
The same reason they tried to bring back the 80s in the 21st century with That 80s Show. This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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