I’ve seen Randall Kleiser‘s Grease exactly once. Ironic ’50s nostalgia had been a thing for roughly a decade when it opened on 6.16.78, and Grease did nothing to advance or upgrade the basic package. It was made strictly for the chumps, and this resulted in a haul of $366 million and change. Definitely not my cup, but now that this John Travolta-Olivia Newton John musical is a topic du jour, I’m thinking about re-watching it. British woke twitter is apparently condemning it for being “racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming.”
