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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Was Vivian trying to steal Baby's man? -- 3





Was Vivian trying to steal Baby's man? -- 2





Was Vivian trying to steal Baby's man? -- 1





Why does the happy ending show Vivian being angry?

The ending of Dirty Dancing comprises three parts:
1) The Singing of "Kellerman's Anthem"

2) The "Time of My Life" Dance Performance

3) The Denouement
The ending begins sadly. The "Kellerman"s Anthem" lyrics, in the third and fourth lines, mourn the imminent passing of the summer's fun experiences into mere memories.
Summer days will soon be over, soon the autumn starts,
And tonight our memories whisper softly in our hearts.
Baby Houseman sits sadly with her parents. Her dancer boyfriend Johnny Castle is gone, and so she will not perform in the talent show. Her sister Lisa will not share the spotlight.

Then, Robbie Gould walks through the ballroom, and Jake Houseman chases after him and stops him in an alcove. Jake gives Robbie an envelope full of cash. In the ensuing conversation, however, Jake learns that Robbie (not Johnny) had impregnated Penny. Jake takes the envelope back, and Robbie leaves the building.

Now some justice has been done -- but seen only by the movie audience.

Then, while the "Anthem" continues to be sung, Johnny comes into the ballroom. At this point, the ending becomes happy for the movie audience and for all the characters -- except for Vivian Pressman. Before I discuss that one exception, though, I will continue to recount the movie's happy ending.

Johnny approaches Baby, who is surprised by his unexpected appearance. He takes her onto the stage, and declares his appreciation for her being a terrific dancer and for standing up for other people, no matter what the cost. Suddenly, sad Baby has become triumphant.

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The central part of the movie's happy ending is Baby's and Johnny's "Time of My Life" dance performance.

In a previous article titled The Psychology of the Movie's Happy Ending, I summarized that psychology:
.... A person is able to "flourish" into a state of happiness and well-being by assembling five building blocks:
1) Positive Emotion

2) Engagement

3) Relationships

4) Meaning

5) Accomplishment
These same building blocks ... are assembled at the end of ... Dirty Dancing. The audience vicariously enjoys watching Baby "flourish" ....
1) Baby is emotionally happy in the moment.

2) Baby is engaged in social interactions. On a low level, she is participating in the talent show. At the highest level, she aspires to improve the entire world.

3) Baby has repaired her damaged relationships -- especially with her father and with Johnny Castle.

4) Baby feels that her life has meaning. Johnny has publicly praised her wisdom and helpfulness.

5) Baby has accomplished an amazing dance performance.
The audience vicariously enjoys Baby's "flourishing" and experiences the story's happy ending.
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The denouement of the movie Dirty Dancing happens in the last 3:18 minutes -- immediately after Baby Houseman and Johnny Castle conclude their dance performance. In a previous article, titled The Psychology of the Movie's Denouement, I summarized the denouement as follows:
The denouement of a story occurs just after the climax and is the final moment in which there is resolution for any remaining conflicts in the plot. All the loose ends of the plot are tied up in this last scene, secrets are revealed, and there may be a sense of catharsis for the reader or audience member at this point. It is also a return to normalcy for the characters, though there may be a “new normal” after the intricacies of the plot have occurred and been revealed.

.... the effective happy ending of Dirty Dancing happens mostly AFTER the performance dance of Baby Houseman and Johnny Caste. In other words, it is mostly the movie's denouement that makes the audience happy.

In the below video, the performance dance lasts from 3:10 through 3:30, and then the denouement lasts through the video's remainder.
The denouement comprises the following segments:

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3:30 - 3:34

Baby and Johnny laugh and embrace in their relief that they have completed their dance successfully.

In this moment, Baby and Johnny portray Positive Emotion and Accomplishment, which are two of the five elements of a happy ending, according to [Lindsay] Doran's lecture on happy endings. The rest of the denouement will portray the other three happy-ending elements -- Engagement, Relationships and Meaning.

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Now I will skip ahead to the segment at 4:14 - 4:17 in the above video.
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4:14 - 4:17

Vivian Pressman stands up. She is upset and turns away to leave the ballroom.

The movie has two main villains -- Robbie Gould and Vivian Pressman -- who had engaged in meaningless sex. Robbie is not even in the ballroom. Vivian's departure symbolizes the defeat of both villains.

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I wrote that summary more than two years ago. Now I regret writing that Robbie and Vivian "had engaged in meaningless sex".  Now I think that Robbie and Vivian considered their sexual relationships with, respectively, Penny and Johnny to be "meaningful". (I will not discuss Robbie further in this article.)

The following three images show Vivian standing up and walking out. In the background, Neil Kellerman dances with Marge Houseman.





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In a denouement, "all the loose ends of the plot are tied up". In Dirty Dancing, the entire denouement is happy except for the three-second moment when Vivian departs angrily.

Vivian's angry departure is noticed and understood only by the movie audience. Johnny and Baby might have understood Vivian' anger, but they do not notice her departure. Perhaps Robbie too would have understood Vivian's anger, but he already has departed before the denouement. Therefore Vivian's angry departure is meaningful only for the movie audience.

Vivian's angry departure arrests the movie audience's thoughts. The movie audience thinks about Vivian's anger and will continue to think about her anger after the movie ends. Those three seconds are in the movie so that the movie audience will continue to think about Vivian's anger.

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Why was Vivian so angry? Was her anger reasonable and justified?

Earlier in the story, during the rehearsals for the talent show, Vivian tried to arrange a sexual encounter with Johnny. No matter what, their sexual relationship would end soon, but Vivian intended to extend it at least a few more days.

However, Johnny terminated his sexual relationship with Vivian so that he could continue his sexual relationship with Baby. Therefore Vivian spent the night not with Johnny, but instead with Robbie . When she came out of Robbie's cabin in the morning, she saw Johnny and Baby coming out of Johnny's cabin.

So, it seems that Vivian became angry at Johnny and Baby. Perhaps Vivian then accused Johnny of stealing her husband Moe Pressman's wallet, but the movie audience does not know that for sure. Maybe Vivian had nothing to do with the theft accusation against Johnny.

Whether or not Vivian initiated the accusation, she surely was informed that Johnny was fired for stealing her husband Moe's wallet. Surely, Max Kellerman informed both Vivian and More Pressmans that the thief -- Johnny -- had been discovered and was being fired and evicted immediately.

Perhaps Vivian's angry departure during the denouement is supposed to confirm the movie audience's suspicions that she indeed initiated the false accusation against Johnny. In other words, she was angry because her malicious accusation had failed to separate Johnny from Baby forever.

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By the time Vivian was watching the talent show, she could not be expecting still to enjoy a sexual encounter with Johnny. She knew that Johnny had been fired and was gone from her life forever.

Vivian was as surprised as everyone else when Johnny showed up at the talent show and performed a dance with Baby. Vivian was shocked.

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Contrast Vivian's angry reaction with Neil Kellerman's accepting reaction. Neil had even better reasons to react angrily. He had courted Baby, but she dumped him in preference for Johnny. Neil had told Johnny to train the employees to perform a pachanga dance instead of a Cuban-soul dance. Neil had fired Johnny.

Nevertheless, Neil stayed in the ballroom and joined the dancing enthusiastically.

This contrast between Vivian and Neil highlights the excess of her anger. Vivian could have, like Neil, maturely shrugged off her anger and accepted the reality that Johnny preferred Baby as his romantic partner at that time.

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I think there is another reason -- perhaps the main reason -- why the three-second moment of Vivian's anger is included in the denouement.

The movie includes several extra-marital sexual relationships. The characters who engaged in extra-marital sex or intended to do so were Baby, Johnny, Penny, Robbie and Lisa -- and Vivian. In that list, the only married character was Vivian.

The extra-marital sexual relationship of the two main characters -- Baby and Johnny -- is glorified in the movie. The movie audience is supposed to perceive at least that one extra-marital relationship as good.

The extra-marital relationship of Penny and Robbie ended with bad consequences for both characters.

The extra-marital relationship of Lisa and Robbie was not consummated, and Lisa's very intention was criticized by Baby.

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The extra-marital relationship of Vivian and Johnny, however, might cause moral uncertainty for the movie audience. That particular relationship was mutually consensual and did not involve a pregnancy or other apparent consequences.

Recognizing the consequences for Johnny requires some thinking in the movie audience. He indicated to Baby that he resented the situations where he felt compelled to sexually service older, rich women in order to earn money. Oh, poor Johnny!

Of course, Vivian's husband Moe should be considered to be the major victim of Vivian's sexual promiscuity, but none of the consequences to him are depicted or even suggested. He might even perversely enjoy her cuckolding of himself.

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The movie's moral lessons are directed mostly to the females in the movie audience. Females do not like movies where the movie's female protagonist loses her husband or boyfriend to some slut without severe consequences for the slut.

Perhaps Vivian satisfied Johnny sexually as well as or even better than Baby did, but that idea would dismay the females in the movie audience. Johnny's sexual satisfaction from Vivian must be acknowledged and accepted realistically, but Vivian must suffer somehow.

Vivian is married, and so she should stop competing sexually with single women. It's bad enough that single women have to compete sexually with each other for attractive males. Single women should  not have to compete sexually also with married sluts.

Therefore, the movie had to show Vivian angry, bitter and isolated at the end. Her exact reasoning did not matter much. For the females in the movie audience, Vivian was the villain.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Paula Trueman, the Actress Who Played Sylvia Schumacher

Paula Trueman playing Sylvia Shumacher in Dirty Dancing
The IMDb biography of Paula Trueman, who played Sylvia Schumacher in the movie Dirty Dancing, includes the following passages:
.... Character actress Paula Trueman was born in 1897 in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph and Eva (Cohn) Trueman and was educated at Hunter College before preparing for the stage on a fellowship at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

Long trained in dance, Paula made her first stage appearance as a musical performer at the Hippodrome in a production of The Thunderbird in 1922. From there she appeared in revues, particularly the Grand Street Follies of 1924 -- staying with that annual show until 1929.

Dramatic roles were not beyond her as she made her straight-acting debut in The Little Clay Cart in December of 1924. For the next four decades she was a theater presence to be reckoned with. Over the years she delighted audiences in such plays as The Dybbuk (1927), A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Puck) (1932), The Merchant of Venice (1932), You Can't Take It With You (1936), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), The Solid Gold Cadillac (1954), Wonderful Town (1963), The Music Man (1965) and Catsplay (1977).

.... She then got on a roll and appeared as a number of feisty, dotty, careworn grannies. She co-starred in the cult movie Homebodies (1974) and Clint Eastwood handed her a prime featured part in his western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). For the next decade she continued to spring up in a number of comedies, albeit bit parts, including Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) and Zelig (1983). This adorable little bundle of joy made her last film appearances with Sweet Lorraine (1987) and Moonstruck (1987).

She died of natural causes in her beloved New York in 1994, aged 96.
This biography does not mention Dirty Dancing (1987),

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A videoclip from the 1934 movie Crime Without Passion. Trueman appears at 0:49 in the video.


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A videoclip from the 1974 movie Homebodies. Trueman appears at 4:00 in the videoclip.


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A videoclip from the 1976 movie The Outlaw Josey Wales. Trueman appears at the beginning.



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The Schumacher Couple's Happy Old Age

The Schumachers and Pressmans Were Eastern European Jews

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Miscellaneous Videos - 141






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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Alvin Myerovich, the Actor Who Played Sidney Schumacher

Alvin Myerovich playing Sidney Schumacher in Dirty Dancing
Alvin Myerovich, the actor who played Sidney Schumacher in the movie Dirty Dancing, died on June 4, 1996. The Baltimore Sun newspaper published the following obituary.
Alvin Myerovich, whose portrayal of the Jewish immigrant grandfather in Barry Levinson's 1990 Baltimore-filmed movie Avalon won the hearts of audiences, died of heart failure Tuesday [June 4, 1996] at a retirement home in Manchester Township, N.J. He was 89.

Mr. Myerovich was professor of music and violin at Youngstown State University [in Ohio] from 1931 to 1963, then lived for the next 21 years in Pikesville [in Maryland]. He moved to New Jersey two years ago.

Mr. Myerovich, who described himself as a "late bloomer," began his acting career at 60 [in 1967], after college students recruited him for a play.

After working in community theater, his first big break came in 1980, when he played the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and later completed three national tours with fellow cast members Hershel Bernardi and Theodore Bikel.

The short, white-haired, bearded character actor made his movie debut at 82, when he played Mr. Schumacher, the amiable pickpocket in Dirty Dancing. The 1987 film was set at a resort in the Catskills, and starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

His wife, the former Olga Parfenchuk, is retired first violinist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. They met when she was a student at Youngstown State.

"I taught her how to play 'Twinkle, Twinkle,' " he said in a 1990 interview in The Sunday Sun. They married in 1944.

Mr. Myerovich was born in Tula, Russia, immigrated to the U.S. United States in 1923 and settled in Youngstown. He earned his bachelor's degree in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University. He served in the Army in World War II and attained the rank of technical sergeant.

Mr. Myerovich wrote poetry and was an avid sailor, swimmer, water skier and mountain climber. One of his chief passions was ice skating, which he pursued until he was 87. While claiming he wasn't a "fancy skater," he boasted that he was always able to find a "victim to do the Dutch Waltz with me."

He was a member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.

His daughter, actress Kim Lynne Myerovich, died in 1991.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Gary Myerovich of Lakehurst, N.J.; a sister, Bea Winnick of New Castle, Pa.; and a granddaughter.

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The Alvin Myerovich Fan Club on Facebook

The Schumacher Couple's Happy Old Age

The Schumachers and Pressmans Were Eastern European Jews

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

My 1,500th Post in this Blog -- Part 7 (final)

Continuing from Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 and Part 6

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The groups of links in this Part 7
Other Movies

Alternative Treatments

Cartoons

Instrumentals

Instructional Dance Videos

Instructional Music Videos

Monologues

The Filming

Skating

Flash Mobs

Revues

Odds and Ends

Videos That Were Good But Are Gone
This series of seven posts has not listed all 1,500 posts in my blog, but it has listed most of them.

By the way, I post less than half of the Dirty Dancing videos that I see on YouTube.



Other Movies

Dance Movies

The 1980s were a decade of dance movies - 1

The 1980s were a decade of dance movies - 2

The 1980s were a decade of dance movies - 3

The Other 1980s Dance Movie -- Footloose

The 1962 Movie Don't Knock the Twist



The 1984 Breakin' Movies

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Movies Depicting Romances of the Early 1960s

Gidget Goes to Rome

Similarities Between Dirty Dancing and Gidget

The 1983 Movie Baby It's You

The 1963 Movie Palm Springs Weekend

The 1963 Movie Sunday in New York


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Advancing Paul Newman -- Part 7 (Goodbye, Columbus)

Advancing Paul Newman -- Goodbye, Columbus Videos

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The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 1 (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 2

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 3

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 4

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 5

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 6

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 7

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 8

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 9

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 10

The 1961 Song "Moon River" -- Part 11

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The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 1

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 2

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 3

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 4

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 5

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 6

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 7

The 1964 Movie For Those Who Think Young -- Part 8

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Movies with Accidental Pregnancies

The 1987 Movie Three Men and a Baby



The 1961 Movie A Taste of Honey

The 1967 Movie In the Heat of the Night

The 1960 Movie Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

The 1961 Movie Susan Slade

The Abortion Decision on Downton Abbey

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Miscellaneous Movies

Other Movies That Opened on That Weekend in 1987

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

The 1974 Movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The 1984 Movie Red Dawn

The 1978 Movie Girlfriends

The 1986 Movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Dirty Dancing Scene in the Movie Crazy, Stupid Love

The "Time of My Life" Dance in the Movie L'arnacoeur




Alternative Treatments

If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing Directed by Martin Scorsese

The Dark Secret That Hides Behind the Friendly Facade

Dirty Vampire Diaries

Dirty Dancing -- High School Musical

Dirty Dancing Dogs




Cartoons

The Chipmunks do "Dirty Dancing"

Disney characters perform to "Time of My Life"

Miscellaneous cartoon characters do dirty dancing

Miscellaneous Videos with Dirty Dancing Songs




Instrumentals

Dirty Strings - 1

Dirty Strings - 2

Dirty Dancing Piano Solos

Dirty Saxophoning



Instructional Dance Videos

Dirty Dancing Tutorial Videos - 1

Dirty Dancing Tutorial Videos - 2

Just Dance Now -- "Time of My Life"

More Dirty, Less Hurty

A choreographer breaks down the iconic lift scene

A 1961 Instructional Film About Pachanga Dancing

Dirty Dancing Tutorial




Instructional Music Videos

The Guitar Chords for "Johnny's Mambo" and "Mambo Magic"

How to Play "She's Like the Wind" on Guitar and Piano

How to Play "Love is Strange" on a Guitar



Monologues









The Filming

Original Screentests Montage

Stage Testing

Behind the Scenes With Kenny Ortega

Rehearsing the Final Scene

Behind-the-Scenes Stories

Snapshots From the Filming Locations




Skating

Dirty Ice Skating - 1

Dirty Ice Skating - 2

Dirty Ice Skating - 3

Dirty Roller Skating




Flash Mobs

Dirty Dancing Flash Mobs - 1

Dirty Dancing Flash Mobs - 2









Revues

An Amateur Performance of the Movie's Dances

The Vauxhall Holiday Park Team Show -- 1

The Vauxhall Holiday Park Team Show -- 2

One Night Only -- 1

One Night Only -- 2

Scene From a Drinking Game -- 1

Scene From a Drinking Game -- 2

Scene From a Drinking Game -- 3





Odds and Ends

A French Documentary About the Making of Dirty Dancing

Fred Astaire does dirty dancing

The Cabin Scene Performed by Channing Tatum and Charlyne Yi

Dirty Finger-Dancing

Baby Sees Raptors in the Kitchen

An Amateur Italian Play

An Amateur Italian Play (continued)

The People Magazine 30th-Anniversary Collector's Edition

Dancing to "Time of My Life" in a Wheelchair

The 1963 Alpha Romero

Johnny Castle's 1957 Chevy

Videopia

Dirty Dancing makes Zooey Deschanel cry and laugh

Ayn Rand and William Hickman

A Reminder to Test Your Smoke Alarm

Capoeira Nights

Dirty Stormtrooping

Yo hago mucho más que tú

Lesbians Dancing to "Time of My Life" at their Weddings

Dopey Lesbians Doing the "Hey, Baby" Scene

Dopey Lesbians Doing the "Hungry Eyes" Scene

Dopey Lesbians Doing the "Time of My Life" Scene

Dopey Canadian high-school students make a video with their school mascot

Flirty Romancing

Dirty Dancing to Remember

Substituting for an Injured Ballet Dancer

Why you have to wait so long at the hospital

Dirty Lip Syncing

Dirty Dancing in 60 Seconds

Cute Children Dirty Dancing - 1

Cute Children Dirty Dancing - 2

Cute Children Dirty Dancing - 3

High-School Choirs

Dirty Pole-Dancing

The Dirty Dancing Lift Machine

Movie Star Challenge

What Women Really Want

Videos Made By Jessyka Watson-Galbraith - 1

Videos Made By Jessyka Watson-Galbraith - 2

Raeann Repulsive's Videos

Tom Beck in Dörte's Dancing

Dirty River Dancing

Dirty Dirndles

Dirty Belly Dancing

Dirty Acrosport

Conan O'Brien and Dirty Dancing

How come nobody makes a movie about Matteo's "Panama" dance?

Dirty Bachata Dancing - 1

Dirty Bachata Dancing - 2

Dirty Bachata Dancing - 3

Dirty Cotillion Dancing

Exploring the Abandoned Grossinger Resort - 1

Exploring the Abandoned Grossinger Resort - 2

Dirty Yoga Dancing

Peluche De Pontoise (NSFW)

Dirty Dancing Cast VEVO

How People Watched Old Movies Before VCRs

Sarah Collins

Agencja GAAN

The Dirty Dancing Murders

The Goldbergs Organize a Dirty Dancing Dance




Videos That Were Good But Are Gone

Deleted Scenes Available again on YouTube

The Movie's Director, Emile Ardolino

Patrick Swayze Talks About the Making of Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing on the Set

Patrick Swayze Singing "She's Like the Wind"

The Swayzes on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"

An Interview with Miranda Garrison, Who Played Vivian Pressman

An Interview With Kenny Ortega

An Interview With Eleanor Bergstein

An Interview With Jennifer Grey

Jerry Orbach, the Actor Who Played Jake Houseman

Debra Messing Used to Look Like Baby Houseman

Idina Menzel and James Corden Singing "Time of My Life"

My Little Pony and Dirty Dancing

Armin and Bella -- Amor Doce

Watching Dirty Dancing in 3-D

Dance Performances on The Lawrence Welk Show During 1962-1963

Rumba Dances on The Lawrence Welk Show

My Favorite Videos from The Lawrence Welk Show

Episodes 1 - 5

Episodes 6 - 8

Episode 9

Episodes 10 and 11

Smule Solo Renditions of Charles Swisher

An Interactive Set at Madame Tussaud's Museum in Berlin

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I hope that I will find some of these videos on YouTube again.

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This is the end of this series categorizing my 1,500 posts.

Sunday, November 17, 2019

Dancing "Time of My Life" in a Mini-Dress -- 25






My 1,500th Post in this Blog -- Part 6

Continuing from Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 and Part 5

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The groups of links in this Part 6
The Best and Worst Videos

GIFs and Video Clips

Photographs

Illustrations

Arts and Crafts

Poems

Foods
I will provide more groups of links in my Part 7.



The Best and Worst Videos

Home-Made Dirty Dancing Videos

The Five Best Home-Made Dirty Dancing Videos

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Miscellaneous Videos

The Five Best Miscellaneous Videos

The Second Best Five Miscellaneous Videos

The Third Best Five Miscellaneous Videos

The Fourth Best Five Miscellaneous Videos

The Recent Five Best Miscellaneous Videos

The Recent Second Five Best Miscellaneous Videos

The Recent Third Five Best Miscellaneous Videos

The Recent Fourth Five Best Miscellaneous Videos

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Mini-Dress Videos

The Five Best Dances in Mini-Dresses

The Second Five Best Dances in Mini-Dresses

The Third Five Best Dances in Mini-Dresses

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Weirdos Videos

The Five Worst Weirdos Wasting Our Time

The Five Second-Worst Weirdos Wasting Our Time

The Five Third-Worst Weirdos Wasting Our Time

The Five Fourth-Worst Weirdos Wasting Our Time



GIFs and Video Clips

Dirty Dancing GIFs

Dirty Dancing Video Clips on the Yarn Website




Photographs

Dirty Senior Portraits

Photographs of Anna Grace Moore for her 15th Birthday

Autumn Harrison's Photographs

Sarah Eden's Photographs

Tara Whittaker's Photographs

The Wedding of Johnny and Frances

Dirty Ballerina Dancing

Instagram Photographs at dirtyddancing

More Instagram Photographs at dirtyddancing

Photographs on Instagram at dirtyddancing

More Photographs on Instagram at dirtyddancing

Photographs from Oh My 80s on Tumblr

Snapshots From the Filming Locations

Marisa Scheinfeld's Photographs of Borscht-Belt Resorts

More of Marisa Scheinfeld's Photographs of Borscht-Belt Resorts




Illustrations

Dirty Dancing Drawings on Deviant Art

More Dirty Dancing Drawings on Deviant Art

Yet More Dirty Dancing Drawings on Deviant Art

Additional Dirty Dancing Drawings at Deviant Art

Even More Dirty Dancing on Deviant Art

Further Dirty Dancing on Deviant Art

Some More Drawings from Deviant Art

A Few Dirty Dancing Drawings

Drawings by Marlène Marques

Elisabeth Janerka's Drawings

Drawings on Instagram at dirtyddancing

Drawings and Poems on Tumblr

Lesbian Dirty Dancing Drawings and Videos

Flickr Images -- 1

Flickr Images -- 2

Dirty Drawing

Dirty Drawing - 2

Drawings in Tumblr

Images in Tumblr

Images and Videos on Twitter at #DirtyDancing



Arts and Crafts

Dirty Dancing Crafts at Etsy

More Dirty Dancing Crafts at Etsy

Dirty Dancing Stuff on Pintarest

The Final Scene Depicted with Toy Bricks

The Final Dance Done by Batman and Lego Toys

The Dirty Dancing Official PC Game

Dirty Cross-Stitching

Dirty Dancing Tattoos

Dutch DenDennis Dirty-Dancing Dolls

The Dirty Dancing Facebook Game

Dirty Dancing Slot Machines

Dirty IPhoning

Dirty T-Shirts

Dirty Keychains

Broadway Merchandise

Dirty Sims - 1

Dirty Sims - 2

Dirty Rotoscoping

Dirty Lego Videos - 1

Dirty Lego Videos - 2

Dirty Paper Dolls

Dirty Dolls

Dirty Sculpting

Decorating a Calendar Planner with Dirty Dancing Stickers

Dirty-Dancing Figurines

Portrayals of Bungalow Bunnies

Skinny Cow's Dirty Dancing Videos

The Farmville Romance Resort Contest




Poems

Dirty Rhyming - 1

Dirty Rhyming - 2

Drawings and Poems on Tumblr




Foods

Pink Garlic Dill Pickles for Dirty Dancing


30 Ways to Bring More Watermelon Into Your Life

Dirty Cake Decorating

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Continued in Part 7

The Abortion Decision on "Downton Abbey"

Earlier this year, the PBS television channel began rebroadcasting the entire Downton Abbey series, which originally was broadcast during the six years 2010-2015. I had not watched the series, so I took advantage of my opportunity to watch it now. Now I am watching the fifth year of the six-year series.

The Wikipedia article about the series summarizes it as follows:
The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey between 1912 and 1926, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in the post-Edwardian era — with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Events depicted throughout the series include ...

* news of the sinking of the Titanic in the first series;

* the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal in the second series;

* the Irish War of Independence leading to the formation of the Irish Free State in the third series;

* the Teapot Dome scandal in the fourth series;

* the British general election of 1923, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the Beer Hall Putsch in the fifth series.

* The sixth and final series introduces the rise of the working class during the interwar period and hints at the eventual decline of the British aristocracy.
The Crawley family has three daughters, Mary, Edith and Sybil.

(left to right) Edith, Mary and Sybil Crawley 
In the series' fourth year (1922-2923), the middle daughter Edith becomes involved in a love affair with a magazine editor named Michael Gregson. He is married, but his wife has been confined to an insane asylum for many years. In order to divorce that wife and then marry Edith, Michael moves to Germany for a while in order to become a German citizen, where the laws would allow him to divorce his insane wife.

Shortly after he arrives in Germany, however, Michael disappears. Edith cannot find out what happened to him, but it seems that he might have been killed as an innocent bystander during the constant conflicts between Germany's Nazis and Communists.

Meanwhile, while Michael is disappeared for a few months, Edith finds that she is pregnant from her love affair with Michael. Because of her aristocratic family's social status, she must conceal her pregnancy in order to avoid a horrible social scandal. Eventually, she decides to get an illegal abortion. Edith confides in he Aunt Rosamund, who accompanies her to an abortionist's office.

While she is in the abortionist's office, however, she changes her mind and leaves. Later she travels with her aunt to Switzerland, ostensibly to improve their French languages. The real purpose for the trip, however, is for Edith to give birth secretly. Then she will return to England and give the baby to a local farmer family to raise for her.

Here are scenes from the abortion subplot.




I am enjoying this series. If you have not watched it but get an opportunity to do so, I guarantee that you too with enjoy it.

Friday, November 8, 2019

My 1,500th Post in this Blog -- Part 5

Continuing from Part 1Part 2Part 3 and Part 4

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The groups of links in this Part 5
Vestron and the Initial Marketing

Derivative Songs

The Stage Musical

The 1988-1989 TV Series

The ABC Original Movie

Various Derivative Productions
I will provide more groups of links in my Part 6.



Vestron and the Initial Marketing

An Article Five Days Before the Movie Opened

Other Movies That Opened on That Weekend in 1987

Dirty Dancing -- The Phenonemon

Box Office Flashback: August 27, 1987

Dirty Dancing During the Holiday Season of 1987

Vestron Video and Dirty Dancing

Dieter samples Dirty Dancing 145 times

Vestron to produce movies for video

Vestron's Gamble

Dirty Dancing was structured as a negative pickup

Selling Dirty Dancing II

The Collapse of Video Prices and Vestron's Collapse

Dirty Dancing -- Vestron's First Production

The Vestron Test

Dirty Dancing struts its stuff on videotape

The Cross-Promotion of Vestron and Nestle

The Dirty Dancing Sequel and Security Pacific National Bank

Vestron bites the dust

Video's Bonanza for the Entertainment Industry

The Acquisition of Vestron by Live Entertainment

How People Watched Old Movies Before VCRs

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 1

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 2

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 3

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 4

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 5

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 6

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 7

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 8

What did Vestron do with its Dirty Dancing earnings -- Part 9




Derivative Songs

NKOB Dirty Dancing

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 1

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 2

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 3

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 4

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 5

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 6

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 7

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 8

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 9

New Kids on the Block - Dirty Dancing Contest - 10

The Time (Dirty Bit)

The Black Eyed Peas' Song "The Time (Dirty Bit)"

Weddings Featuring "The Time (Dirty Bit)" -- 1

Weddings Featuring "The Time (Dirty Bit)" -- 2

Weddings Featuring "The Time (Dirty Bit)" -- 3

Weddings Featuring "The Time (Dirty Bit)" -- 4

Weddings Featuring "The Time (Dirty Bit)" -- 5

Miscellaneous

Sie steht auf Dirty Dancing

I loved Sigrid Berenson's song, but it's gone

I'm going to lift you up, just like Patrick Swayze

I loved Sigrid Berenson's song, but it's gone

Dirty Work



The Stage Musical

Basic Information About the Stage Musical

Eleanor Bergstein's Decision to Develop the Stage Musical

My Review of the Stage Musical -- General

My Review of the Stage Musical -- Race

My Review of the Stage Musical -- Romance

My Review of the Stage Musical -- Comparison of Songs

From Screen to Stage -- Dirty Dancing Live

No new tours of the stage musical?

Tournée "Dirty Dancing" - Zénith d'Amiens -- 1

Tournée "Dirty Dancing" - Zénith d'Amiens -- 2

Tournée "Dirty Dancing" - Zénith d'Amiens -- 3

Making a Backdrop for the Stage Musical

Interviews of the Musical's Cast Members -- 1

Interviews of the Musical's Cast Members -- 2

The Stage Musical in Berlin

A Performance at the ZDF Fernsehgarten in Mainz

An Interview with the Director of the Stage Version

Dirty Dancing Chicago VLog -- 1

Dirty Dancing Chicago VLog -- 2

Auditioning for the Stage Musical - 1

Auditioning for the Stage Musical - 2

Auditions for the Stage Musical in France

Un anno di Dirty Dancing

Behind the Scenes in South Africa

The Stage Musical in Berlin

The Stage Musical in Italy

Vive la Danse Sale - 1

Vive la Danse Sale - 2

DNA danza nell'anima a.s.d. 2017

Dirty Dancing, la comedie musicale, 2018 -- 1

Dirty Dancing, la comedie musicale, 2018 -- 2

A stage actor talks about playing Johnny Castle

Interviews of the Musical's Cast Members - 1

Interviews of the Musical's Cast Members - 2

Is Dirty Dancing a Musical?

Bungalow Bunnies -- The Musical




The 1988-1989 TV Series

The Dirty Dancing Television Series in 1988-1989

A Look Back at the 1988 Television Series

The 1988-1989 TV Series Dubbed into Russian




The ABC Original Movie

My Praise for ABC's Dirty Dancing -- Part 1

My Praise for ABC's Dirty Dancing -- Part 2

The Story Behind That Surprise Ending of the Dirty Dancing Remake

Colt Prattes is an excellent dancer

Scherzinger and Prattes dance to "Do You Love Me?" on Dancing With the Stars

Why ABC Chose Abigail Breslin to Play Baby

Producer Allison Shearmur, RIP

Nicole Scherzinger played Penny but opposes abortion



Various Derivative Productions

The Origin of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

The Dirty Dancing Franchise

The 1988 Dirty Dancing Concert

The 2006 Dirty Dancing Reality Show on We tv -- Part 1

The 2006 Dirty Dancing Reality Show on We tv -- Part 2

The Real Dirty Dancing

L'Ecran Pop Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing: The Shaadi -- a Must-Watch for Every Bollywood Aficionado

The People Magazine 30th-Anniversary Collector's Edition

Future Cinema Presents Dirty Dancing

Stardust Dance Dirty Dancing Weekend

Secret Cinema presents Dirty Dancing

More Videos of Secret Cinema

L'Ecran Pop Dirty Dancing

The Dirty Dancing Festival at Lake Lure

A Dirty Dancing Festival at Lake Lure

Dirty Dancing Festival  2017

The 10th Annual Dirty Dancing Festival

Hen Parties

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