It was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1970s and has been delighting audiences ever since.
But now the hit musical Grease has become the latest target of ‘woke’ critics who have condemned it for racism, sexism, homophobia and ‘slut-shaming’.
Outraged detractors have called for the story of Sandy and Danny’s rollercoaster high-school romance to be cancelled – and never shown on TV again.
When BBC1 screened the movie on Boxing Day, 42 years after its cinema release, youngsters took to social media to label it ‘rapey’ and misogynist for showing how strait-laced Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, transformed herself into a vamp to bag the man of her dreams, Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta.
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Settle in: TV shows to binge-watch over winter break
Wicked Local
It’s winter break, and there’s a lot of snow on the ground, and there s also a pandemic. This is a recipe for staying home and indoors and catching up on TV shows you may have missed. We’ve got you covered.
“I typically go into binge-watch mode this time of year because I dislike the cold but still get stir-crazy,” Bryan McGonigle, Wicked Local journalist covering North Andover, Georgetown and Newburyport, writes. “Now that this holiday season includes a pandemic making it safer to stay home, I’ve probably watched half of all Netflix and HBO have to offer. Schitt’s Creek, Mindhunter and Lovecraft Country are three of my favorites from this year.”
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The dialogue in Woody Allen s Anything Else is an exercise of neurotic bravery, a defense against fear and insecurity. His characters are doubtful about their prospects in life. Careers aren t going well, and romance works only through self-deception. To hold despair at bay they talk and talk, and because Allen is a master of comic dialogue, it is our pleasure to listen.
The new movie has both a mentor and a narrator, so one character gives insights about life and the other gives insights about him. The hero is Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs), a would-be comedy writer whose career is going nowhere, and his advisor is David Dobel (Allen), a 60ish New Jersey school teacher whose career has gone nowhere; he hasn t stopped hoping, but he keeps the day job. They meet in the park for long talks, Dobel doing most of the talking, Jerry grateful at first and then dubious: If Dobel knows so much, how come he s still stuck? Jerry was once fully and happily in love with Brooke (Ka