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CINEMA 57: Capricorn One--1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15. Greaser...
...breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser style. But history cannot be stopped, and the film ends with an ingenious restaging of the Beatles' TV debut. The scene is surprisingly affecting. Perhaps because things have so settled down since, it is very moving to relive that romantic Sunday night when the young seemed to inherit the earth...
...older brother of one of the Kingsmen suggested that the group dress 50's style for the concert and, without telling the group, distributed handbills which read, "So you think you're an Ivy Leaguer? Bullshit. Underneath your button-down shirt is the eighth grade greaser standing on the corner, whistling 'Duke of Earl' to yourself and watching the girls go by. Come down to Ferris Booth Hall where the Kingsmen will be reliving the old days. Come dressed...
...Virginia Callahan. Remember Mrs. Joel's kid, Billy, from down the street? The greaser who took the piano lessons and had his shifty eye on you? Well, he just wrote a song about you. And you won't like...
...hopes. Grease, the film version of the long-running Broadway play, will be the first out, and is probably the safest bet. Set in a '50s high school, it stars Pop Singer Olivia Newton-John and Travolta, who has already scored a huge success as a '70s greaser in Saturday Night Fever. "It's going to be a '70s look at the '50s," says Director Randal Kleiser. "Stylistically, the actors will stop and break into song-that's old-but we are using all the '70s film techniques we can muster, like split...