"I carried a watermelon..."

 ♪ ♪...hey...heeeey...........baby.....I wanna know.......if you'll be my girl.....♪♪♪

Well, I watched it AGAIN last night
...and I have now LOST count of how many times I've  watched this movie.

WHAT IS IT about this little 1987 movie that continues to leave us breathless ?
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"That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's."
Baby Houseman

Is it THE MAN himself .....?
He was such a great actor......and talented at dancing.

 Now, for some, he was very handsome....
not so much for me,

 but I sure liked his acting....O, I thought he was cute enuf...

 Johnny:  " Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space.

 This is your dance space. 

I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine.

 You gotta hold the frame. "
 ♥

Is it that no other man on the planet could have played
JOHNNY
as well as Patrick ?
The dancing he did in this movie........WHOA !

Or is it the adorable BABY.....?
(I would KILL for all that beautiful hair)

 Baby: "Oh, yes, as a matter of fact it is. We're supposed to do the show in two days, you won't show me the lifts, I'm not sure of the turns, I'm doing all this to save your ass, what I really want to do is drop you on it! "
*

 Is it the awesome, breath-stopping chemistry
between the two ?

"Me?  I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."
Baby Houseman

Is it that just about every woman that loves the movie
would LOVE to have been  on that log with him....?
*

or....was it all the Dirty Dancing....????
You have to admit, it made our hearts beat a little faster...pulse race..
daydream a little bit while watching ....maybe going back in memory
to another place...another time....*whew......

I think ALL OF IT combined, made it one of the most
 loved movies of the time.
Olden people and young alike seem to have it on their FAVORITE MOVIES list.

♥

FOR ME....
it was THE DANCING
....and the MUSIC.

WIPEOUT
HEY BABY
I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE
and the list goes on.

♥

 .....Jennifer Grey, how fun was it to make this movie with PATRICK SWAYZE  ?????
(ACTUALLY, I read somewhere they didn't really get along very good)..??

"I carried a watermelon."
Baby Houseman

(IF I'm not mistaken, there's a blog out there with that very name...)
♥ 

Whatever it was that made this a favorite movie of so many,
I hope to see THE MAGIC in another movie just like it.........SOON.
♥ ♥ ♥

 

If you don't have the DVD, rent it.....

It's in one of my baskets of THE BEST MOVIES, EVER  ! !

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2/16/15:

The 1987 classic Dirty Dancing is coming to TV for a new reboot of the franchise, but the good news is that production is expected to return to the Lake Lure area of North Carolina, where the original movie was also filmed.

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey on the NC set of ‘Dirty Dancing’ (1987).

The Wilmywood Daily reports that filming could begin as early as April 6 and run through May 28 in the Ashville area, with production offices opening in March.

Are you ready to go Dirty Dancing in North Carolina again ???
 

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