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Musical Monday: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) – Musical #855

Studio:
Universal Pictures

Director:
Colin Higgins

Starring:
Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors, Robert Mandan, Lois Nettleton, Noah Beery Jr., Theresa Merritt, Mary Jo Catlett

Plot:
The Chicken Ranch brothel has a long history and has been open for decades and is now under the proprietress of Miss Mona (Parton). The establishment has always been protected by the law, but Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd (Reynolds) and the town face scrutiny when investigative and sensationalist reporter Melvin P. Thorpe (DeLuise) airs on the news that there is a house of ill repute in Texas. Thorpe makes it his mission to get the Chicken Ranch shut down.

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Musical Monday: Grease 2 (1982)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

grease 2This week’s musical:
Grease 2 (1982) – Musical #781

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Patricia Birch

Starring:
Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lorna Luft, Adrian Zmed, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Tab Hunter, Connie Stevens, Didi Conn, Dody Goodman, Maureen Teefy, Allison Price, Pamela Adlon, Peter Frechette, Christopher McDonald, Leif Green, Dick Patterson, Matt Lattanzi

Plot:
It’s the first day of the 1961 fall term at Rydell High School. The tough crowd at the high school are the leather jacket wearing T-Birds and the pink satin jacket-wearing Pink Ladies. Pink Lady Stephanie (Pfeiffer) has grown tired of her T-Bird boyfriend Johnny (Zmed). Their group rules say that only T-Birds can date Pink Ladies, and while Stephanie has broken up with Johnny, she still wants a tough guy. Also on the first day of school, exchange student and cousin of Sandy (from the previous Grease) Michael Carrington (Caulfield) arrives and is immediately smitten with Stephanie. The problem is Stephanie won’t look at him if he’s not a leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding “cool rider.”

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