The one that I want

I watched Grease last night, in my bed, with my laptop on my chest, whispering the songs and feinting the coreographies in the dark wuth my arms and my hips. It has been a very long time since the last time I watched it although, perhaps, there has been no day or week I haven't hummed any of its fantastic songs. In fact, I think (if Paulaner beer doesn't fool me) that Elena, Robi, Hector and me danced Summer nights at the Oktoberfest. I've seen this movie about ten times but it was surprising how many new things I found out yesterday. First, I discovered the original English version and the great teenager voice of John Travolta, very similar to Nicholas Cage's one in Peggy Sue got married. Second, I noticed a lot of funny references that I had been missing for all this years, e.g., where the high school director encourages her students through the microphone to become great celebrities: "And among you, young men, there may be a Joe DiMaggio, a President Eisenhower or even a Vice President Nixon." The Watergate scandal hadn't yet happened in the Roaring fifties. And that's the point: when I was younger I really didn't realized that Grease was a 1978's movie set in the 50s and, accordinly, a parody of the American life of those years. Knowing that, you can enjoy the movie even more: the characters, the enviroment, the story... And what can I say about the songs? They have become immortal hymns. I'd want to pay special tribute to the lovely Betty Rizzo (Stockard Channing, an actress who we'd enjoy some years later as the First Lady of The US on The West Wing) and to the two songs she sings: Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee (a hilarious piece where she makes fun of Sandy) and There are worse things I could do (not as famous as the previous, but a pretty song about appareances sake). Finally I want to give you all a piece of advice: until you were able to sing Grease Lihtning in one go your English won't be good enough.