No body puts baby in a corner…
One of my most favorite movies is Dirty Dancing (1987). When it came out on video (remember VHS?), I was working at a video rental store (remember when you went to small, locally owned video stores? Yeah, I worked at one of those). The biggest perk of the job (other than watching movies AT work) was getting advance copies of movies. After all, the owner theorized, how could his employees recommend a movie if they hadn’t seen it?
So there I was, in college, working part time at the video store and The Fiancee (now starring as The Hubby) was on the West Coast on a temporary assignment. So I had tons of time to watch movies. I think I watched Dirty Dancing twice a day for a week. I could quote it, scene by scene. The only thing I couldn’t do is the dance moves. “Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don’t go into yours, you don’t go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.”
Then:
Steel Dawn
Road House
Next of Kin
Ghost
Point Break
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Forever Lulu
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And now Patrick Swayze is gone. At age 57, pancreatic cancer won out.