{"id":362,"date":"2007-04-27T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T05:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/dirty-dancing-turns-20\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T05:42:28","slug":"dirty-dancing-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/dirty-dancing-turns-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Dancing Turns 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled…<\/em><\/p>\n

Can you believe it? 20 years since Dirty Dancing was released. Jennifer Grey is now 47. My God. <\/p>\n

I was not quite 14 when it came out and I remember enjoying the film, although it wasn’t an instant fave. I did, however, buy both the albums, perhaps because I desperately wanted a copy of “Do You Love Me?” – damn, haven’t teenagers got it easy today with their downloads?. I also remember wishing solemnly that I could slowdance to “Time of My Life” at school discos, but no boy would go near me.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

Dirty Dancing is still hugely popular, and they’re re-releasing the film in cinemas for the anniversary. This article in USAToday<\/a> interviews several women about why they love the film so much.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about the sexual appeal of Patrick Swayze<\/a> in that role, and I think that’s a big part of why the young women of today like the movie. She’s the everygirl with the big nose, he’s the hunk… and he loves<\/em> her. Perfect. Teenage. Fantasy.<\/p>\n

I’ve watched the bridal couple re-constructing the last dance<\/a> at their wedding and it made me smile a lot. I was going to embed it but I think I’m going to opt for the far sexier “Cry To Me” scene.<\/p>\n

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Now I don’t care what your politics are, that is very, very<\/em> erotic.<\/p>\n

Via Scanner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled… Can you believe it? 20 years since Dirty Dancing was released. Jennifer Grey is now 47. My God. I was not quite 14 when it came out and I remember enjoying the film, although it wasn’t an instant fave. I did, however, buy both the albums, perhaps because I desperately wanted a copy of “Do Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}