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Dirty Dancing

September 2022

  • L.A. Dance Project 2021 Gala - Unforgettable Evening Under The Stars<br>BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - OCTOBER 16: Actress Jennifer Grey arrives at the L.A. Dance Project 2021 Gala - Unforgettable Evening Under The Stars held at The Pritzker Estate on October 16, 2021 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States.

    ‘Dirty Dancing felt like it was made for me!’: Jennifer Grey on her turbulent life – and the film that made her a star

    With the publication of her uncompromising memoir, the actor looks back at the classic coming-of-age movie – and the tension between her and co-star Patrick Swayze

August 2020

  • Jennifer Grey with the late Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.

    Dirty Dancing sequel starring Jennifer Grey announced 33 years after original

    Original star Grey will also executive produce follow-up to hit summer romance movie, with Jonathan Levine directing

April 2019

  • ‘We hated the movie until we heard your song’ … Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the climactic scene.

    How we made
    How we made Dirty Dancing's (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life

    ‘My old boss called and asked me to write a song for a movie called Dirty Dancing. I thought: “Ah, poor Jimmy’s doing porn”’

April 2018

  • Teenage dreams: the soulful phenomenon of coming of age films

    The best coming of age films
    'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart

    From Pretty in Pink to Dirty Dancing and Say Anything - Hadley Freeman describes the emotions that got her hooked on films about growing up

September 2017

  • Second helping … Anthony Heald and Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

    Film blog
    They'll be back: are reissues of familiar favourites crowding out hard-to-find classics?

    Terminator 2, Dirty Dancing and The Silence of the Lambs are all set for cinema runs – but are brilliant older films in danger of permanent eclipse?

August 2017

  • Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing.

    Why Dirty Dancing would never be made today

    Noo Saro-Wiwa
    30 years ago the film addressed abortion, religion and class in a way that 21st-century Hollywood would never dare, writes Noo Saro-Wiwa

July 2017

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Nobody puts Dirty Dancing lovers in the corner

    Eva Wiseman
    A near-fatal Dirty Dancing-themed wedding dance warm-up has much to tell us about how we see ourselves and our partners, writes Eva Wiseman

September 2016

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    Is Channing Tatum in a fish tail the feminist dream realised? The jury’s out

    Hadley Freeman
    The current passion for 1980s films reflects what we lack today: films back then were made for adults, not just teenage boys

July 2016

  • ‘Get involved or go home’ ... Secret Cinema presents Dirty Dancing.

    First look review
    Secret Cinema: Dirty Dancing review – the UK's biggest hen party

    Re-enactments of the film’s big scenes enable a hyped-up, hula-hooping crowd in a sing-along with the atmosphere of a drunken sleepover

March 2016

  • EE Launch 4G mobile network, Battersea Power Station, London, Britain - 01 Nov 2012<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tom Oldham/REX (1947159a) Nicole Scherzinger EE Launch 4G mobile network, Battersea Power Station, London, Britain - 01 Nov 2012 Nicole Scherzinger wearing a ‘Twitter Dress’ consisting of 2000 LEDs and which received tweets, turning her into a real life message board.

    Nicole Scherzinger signs on for Dirty Dancing remake

    The former Pussycat Dolls frontwoman is set to join Abigail Breslin and Debra Messing in ABC’s TV movie adaptation of Dirty Dancing

December 2015

  • Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.

    Dirty Dancing to get television remake

    Classic 1987 film to be adapted by US network ABC, with Abigail Breslin to play role of Baby Houseman and Wayne Blair of The Sapphires to direct

November 2015

  • The cast of Singin’ in the Rain rehearse at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

    From Broadway to France's boulevards: how Paris fell in love with musicals

    Director Jean-Luc Choplin explains how he led an English-language musical comedy revolution when he took the reins at Paris’s Châtelet theatre

October 2015

  • Jennifer Grey at the Red Oaks Amazon TV series premiere.

    TV and radio blog
    Jennifer Grey: 'I don't understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing'

    The star of some of the greatest 1980s movies on what it’s like to return to the era in new comedy Red Oaks on Amazon Prime, and why she has never done ‘the lift’ again

August 2015

  • Dirty Dancing

    Dirty Dancing lake had the time of its life, but now it's all dried up

    It seems that Mountain Lake in Virginia – now nothing more than a reddish-brown pit – shows little regard for human intervention or Hollywood nostalgia

May 2015

  • Pretty in Pink

    Life Moves Pretty Fast review – a funny, absorbing study of 80s Hollywood

  • hadley freeman holding a watermelon

    Hadley Freeman: why I owe it all to 1980s movies

August 2012

  • Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing (1987)

    Film blog
    Dirty Dancing: would you put this baby in the corner?

    It was the summer of 1987, when Patrick Swayze was a pin-up and no one imagined dance shows would be on prime-time TV. On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, do you still have hungry eyes for it?

September 2009

  • dirty dancing

    Dirty Dancing, feminist masterpiece

    Melissa McEwan
  • Steve Coogan as Pauline Calf

    Film blog
    Why do we love spoofing Patrick Swayze?

August 2009

  • Scene from Dirty Dancing

    Dirty Dancing to take the floor again

    Nobody puts baby back in the corner, as Lionsgate announce a new version of the film that catapulted Patrick Swayze to stardom

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