How could you not love any movie with a cast like this? John Waters' homage to "Grease" may prove to be something of a disappointment to fans of "Pink Flamingos" and "Desperate Living" but it's still a kitsch classic nevertheless and it has a fifties rock 'n roll score to die for. The plot hardly matters, (bad boy falls for good girl), but Waters' cast of resurrected 'stars' of the sixties and earlier, (spot Troy Donahue, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Joey Heatherton), as well as icons like Joe D'Allesandro, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Mink Stole and, in a cameo, Willem Dafoe make this a camp treat. Hard to believe that these already over-aged teenagers are now almost thirty years older than they were when this was made
Saturday, 6 October 2018
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How could you not love any movie with a cast like this? John Waters' homage to "Grease" may prove to be something of a disappointment to fans of "Pink Flamingos" and "Desperate Living" but it's still a kitsch classic nevertheless and it has a fifties rock 'n roll score to die for. The plot hardly matters, (bad boy falls for good girl), but Waters' cast of resurrected 'stars' of the sixties and earlier, (spot Troy Donahue, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Joey Heatherton), as well as icons like Joe D'Allesandro, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Mink Stole and, in a cameo, Willem Dafoe make this a camp treat. Hard to believe that these already over-aged teenagers are now almost thirty years older than they were when this was made
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