Word: greasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GREASER'S PALACE...
...this is strictly according to the gospel of Robert Downey, set down in Greaser's Palace, his funniest, most accomplished and most audacious film yet. Downey's lifelong dedication to assaulting the boundaries of good taste still ends too often in dirty jokes that misfire and a kind of varsity show satire. But with its boundless energy and delirious invention, Greaser's Palace is easily the most adventurous American movie so far this year...
...gamut from pure kneeslapping comedy to bawdy jokes and nude appearances. Pan and Cupid swing rosy-cheeked down from thereafters, babies are eaten alive, a sexy maiden is transformed for punishment by Juno into a credible cow with amazingly bovine expressions, a jive-ass-hipster Zeus with greaser shades trysts with earthling maidens, and the verdict is pronounced upon Narcissus. "The sucker came up from inside of him, and that's a rumble nobody can cool...
Grease's creators both went to high school in the '50s-Warren Casey, 37, in Yonkers, N.Y., and Jim Jacobs, 29, in Chicago. Jacobs, who says he was a greaser (a guy who wore his hair in a greasy ducktail), conceived the show as a celebration of the dull but peaceful era "when the only thing kids knew about the President was that he played golf and had trouble with his intestines, and the biggest tragedy in life was if you didn't get your dad's car for the drive...
People first saw this giant of a greaser in the Quincy House dining Hall. where he was eating Whimpies and Coney Island Red Hots...