Jennifer Grey knows you care about her nose
In the 'Dirty Dancing' star's memoir, she dishes on her fateful surgery and her Jewish identity
In the 'Dirty Dancing' star's memoir, she dishes on her fateful surgery and her Jewish identity
Elissa Strauss hopes that a new remake of the movie “Dirty Dancing” keeps our beloved heroine, Baby, Jewish. In addition to preserving Baby and her family’s ethnic authenticity, which is important in grounding the film in a real milieu, I should add that I hope the remake keeps the essential, devastating abortion plotline, which is…
A “Dirty Dancing” remake is officially in the works, with Kenny Ortega, who choreographed the original, set to direct. The announcement of the new project quickly incited a chorus of complaints from those who think the idea is sacrilegious, as well as a flurry of speculation on who would play Baby and Johnny. I, for…
Rest in peace, Patrick Swayze. It’s a measure of the speed of our information age that when I Googled him, 20 minutes after he died of pancreatic cancer on September 14th, his Wikipedia page had already been updated. Swayze was not Jewish, but his co-star in the movie that made him famous, Jennifer Grey in…
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