Word: malts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beer and wine as well as whisky through franchised Suntory Pubs; 30,000 of them now dot Japan. He also opened a computerized distillery in 1973 near Mount Fuji. With only 75 employees, it turns out 11.8 million gallons a year, or 60% of Suntory's malt whisky production...
REMEMBER THOSE fabulous '50s?" Chubby Checkers keeps asking on late night T.V. "Remember the music? The drive-ins? Your first prom?" The King of the Twist takes a long look around the mocked-up malt shop and gives a wistful smile, "Well, now you can relive those fabulous...
...buddies and his sweet side for Sandy. The best scene of the movie (when you might be able to believe Travolta can act) comes as Danny tries to apologize to Sandy for the idiotic way in which he has been behaving towards her. They are in the local malt shop, of course, where all the kids hang out. Sandy has temporarily left her football-player date, who has all his brains in his biceps according to Travolta, to feed the juke box. Her real intent, of course, is to lure Danny, who is sitting with his slippery friends at another...
Newton-John aside, it is the special effects which do the most damage to an otherwise reasonable show. On the stage, nobody can get away with canned fant asies like the one Frenchy (Didi Conn) has in the malt shop after she has managed to tint her hair pink in beauty school. Having left Rydell High to learn how to shampoo and rinse, Frenchy is having one of those adolescent crises as to whether or not she has made the right decision by leaving school. Needless to say, her problem is hardly assuaged by a host of women with silver...
...Kleiser, who is 30, doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. He has no feel for the times when kids were trying to resolve the contradictions between an inherited style of surviving adolescence and the radically different, new possibilities. Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, the malt shop and the rock concert, the jalopy and the drag racer, white bucks and black leather jackets-for a while in the '50s, two ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra...