3 posts tagged “grease”

I was voted TSB’s favourite customer here in Wellington—I kind of was at the ANZ before head office got greedy and nasty and the staffers I was close to began leaving—but the Taranaki bank gave me better booze last night. After leaving the Wellington branch at 9.30 p.m. last night, I headed into town and went to a few bars with some friends—not my usual course but I wanted to be sober before I got behind the wheel (i.e. I didn’t drink alcohol at the bars).
   The songs: two bars played the Grease ‘Mega-Mix’ of the early 1990s, one played ‘Dancing Queen’.
   Add to all the Xanadu posts yesterday and conversations at the office about Xanadu that led to them, and now, in the mail, a breast cancer media kit from Olivia Newton-John’s charity, I wonder what I am being told (other than Kiwi bars are stuck in the 1990s).

I searched for this online years ago and could not find it. Finally, it’s on YouTube. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the British version of ‘You’re the One that I Want’, written by John Farrar, but lyrics slightly modified from the original. (I could have lied and said I travelled to the future and found a video of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta from 2050 in a Grease remake.)

Isn’t it far too early to be nostalgic for a Beverly Hills, 90210 revival?
   American networks don’t think so: it’s back in the (northern) autumn, called 90210 and produced by Rob Thomas (who’s also doing the US version of Outrageous Fortune, called Outrageous Behavior).
   More at Canada.com.
   Normally revivals take some 20 years though they seem to come around the time of Hollywood writers’ strikes.
   And will fans of the old watch the new if it doesn’t have returning stars? That would be like Grease 2 not having Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.