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Thread started 07/19/02 12:38am

mistermaxxx

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??
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Reply #1 posted 07/19/02 12:40am

Buttercup

BUTTERCUP
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MISTERMAXXX
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Reply #2 posted 07/19/02 12:42am

endorphin74

buttercup vs mistermaxxx

NEXT ON PRINCE DOT ORG DEATH MATCH...
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Reply #3 posted 07/19/02 12:44am

endorphin74

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 wink
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Reply #4 posted 07/19/02 12:50am

DavidEye

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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Reply #5 posted 07/19/02 12:55am

mistermaxxx

DavidEye said:

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!!
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!!
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Reply #6 posted 07/19/02 1:09am

endorphin74

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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Reply #7 posted 07/19/02 2:54am

eos23

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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Reply #8 posted 07/19/02 4:05am

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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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Reply #9 posted 07/19/02 4:11am

DavidEye

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...wink
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Reply #10 posted 07/19/02 11:44am

mistermaxxx

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!

smile
The Cat is Very Bright&Cracks Me up with His Wit.His Trivia Takes alone are like DVD Bonus Features IMHO.
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Reply #11 posted 07/19/02 12:06pm

PFunkjazz

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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. fro


Besides we had only 1 TV back then and I used to fight with my sister trying to watch basketball. evil
[This message was edited Fri Jul 19 12:07:44 PDT 2002 by PFunkjazz]
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Reply #12 posted 07/19/02 1:25pm

jessyMD32781

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. rolleyes But Happy Days never bothered me. Maybe it was the lack of overdone musical numbers.
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Reply #13 posted 07/19/02 1:31pm

mistermaxxx

PFunkjazz said:

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. fro


Besides we had only 1 TV back then and I used to fight with my sister trying to watch basketball. evil
[This message was edited Fri Jul 19 12:07:44 PDT 2002 by PFunkjazz]
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 that
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Reply #14 posted 07/19/02 2:15pm

IrishEcho

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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Reply #15 posted 07/19/02 2:20pm

PFunkjazz

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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.
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Reply #16 posted 07/19/02 5:43pm

mistermaxxx

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.
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Reply #17 posted 07/19/02 6:34pm

herbthe4

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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Reply #18 posted 07/19/02 9:41pm

Supernova

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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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