DIRTY DANCING: Reviewed!
I can’t believe it but after another week of edging the listenership with aniticipation we’re here again for another week in the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour Universe (the CCCAHU) and we’re talking about how grateful you should all be for it! It’s like clockwork. Thursday mornings without a break EVER. “It’s Thursday and you know what that means” vibes for the indefinite future! You all won’t know how good you had it until Christopher and I are chatting shit about each other on our separate podcasts, The Rag Tag Rambling Gambling Groovy Booty Show with Jeffrey Bahlo and the Good Production Quality show with Christopher Anousis. But hey, until then, let’s stay present and appreciate where we are and acknowledge … that we are on a movie streak baby!
We are going from strength to strength in this summer of dance, drama and romance! We are reviewing Dirty Dancing today. A movie that is not from 1989. Or 1988. But … yep … you guessed it … Christopher’s 1987. Wow. Well, we’re eighties babies with nineties hearts I guess. So let’s keep the 2020s podcasting going. The reviewing. The side-bar swerving. The guessing. The scoring. The off-point accumulating. The pitching. The faff, the guff and the malarkey: the holy trinity of vibes that comes with yammering on and on with your bestie on a little-known podcast hiding in the vast unknown expanse of the internet for years on end. We love it. We hope you do too.
Watch Dirty Dancing here on ITV: https://www.itv.com/watch/dirty-dancing/10a3659
Read the Dirty Dancing Wikipedia page like Jeffrey did as if it’s a damn BOOK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dancing
Listen to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack here. Only if (unlike Christopher) you’ve … had … the time of your life … and you owe it all to the CCCAH … ok not ALL, but SOME … and you’ve NEVER felt this way before … ok maybe not NEVER but definitely not ALL THE TIME or anything: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dirty-dancing-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/254938499
We love Roger Ebert round these parts so let’s enjoy, for balance, Ebert being quite down on Dirty Dancing, to the tune of one star: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-dancing-1987
A more positive review from the time from Samuel G. Freedman of the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/16/movies/film-dirty-dancing-rocks-to-an-innocent-beat.html
Paul McCartney … how could you do this to us: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jul/05/paul-mccartney-i-want-to-hold-your-hand-taylor-swift-wedding
Madison Square Garden … how could you: https://pitchfork.com/story/madison-square-garden-disabled-its-surveillance-system-for-taylor-swifts-wedding/
A interview with the unsung goat behind Dirty Dancing (and many other dances) Kenny Ortega: https://www.insidedance.com/news-features/kenny-ortega-living-a-legacy/
Netflix made a docu-series called The Movies That Made Us and the very first episode covered the making of Dirty Dancing: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80994955
And for those who are only getting more *smitten* with, *curious* about and *excited* by the film … here is more behind the scenes footage from the making of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZyTG5UB0w
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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we finally broke the news of Taylor Swift’s wedding! First podcast to do so, I think? No? Ok well still, we stand by the fact that no one has truly covered THE FALL OF T-SWIFT like we here at the CCCAH have. Late era Swift has been a depressing rollercoaster, lowest of keys.
SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-00d02322-3b21-4663-ae22-c2c4a2db3f9f
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