I thought I would take the very sad occasion of Patrick Swayze's death to blog about my obsession with the movie Dirty Dancing. It always has been and always will be my favorite movie of all time. When I was younger, my friend Christina's mom taped it off HBO and edited out the commercials and the racy parts so that we could watch it over and over and over again in each other's living rooms. We knew all the lines:
"Look, spaghetti arms! This is my dance space, this is yours."
"Go back to your playpen- Baby."
"Where is my beige, irridescent lipstick!?"
"If you love me, you have to love all the things about me."
"Me? I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw, of what I did. Of who I am. And most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling, the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I'm with you."
and the classic...
"Nobody puts baby in the corner."
Christina and I practiced the lift on our sofa cushions. Oh we SO did! The lift has to be the best moment in all of moviedom. Both the lake scene and the final scene. And oh, when she misses it when they do the Shelldrake and she does that funny thing with her thumbs!! And the soundtrack- don't even get me started. I'll just say that Hungry Eyes is a very integral part of my running mix. I think I may have to watch it again, you know, out of respect for Patrick Swayze and all....
5 comments:
Oh my gosh, I LOVE Dirty Dancing! I didn't see it until a couple of years after it came out (we were young & poor married students, after all) but I loved it immediately. And I still remember telling Russ that I cringed to think of how many babies were conceived at the drive-in that year. Whew--that was a sensual movie! And yes, the lifts were great!
ummm...this is too classic...love it.
And to think I have never seen it. Shameful, I know. I will have to remedy that soon.
I also saw that movie a TON when I was a kid - and I remember feeling so guilty because it was such a "naughty" film back then...
I thought of you last night when they did a tribute to Patrick Swayze on Dancing With The Stars. Don't know if it's something you can watch online, but I thought I would let you know just in case you were interested. It was on their results show.
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