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Life lessons from the movie GREASE

Buzzfeed has looked at the movie Grease and realized that all you need to know about life can be found in the most successful movie musical of all time.

Here are just 6.  Head over to Buzzfeed for 16 more “life lessons” from Grease.

1. Smoking is cool.

2. It’s OK to kiss and tell, as long as it’s in song.

3. Your guardian angel will show up once you screw up your life sufficiently.

4. If a boy really likes you, he’ll act insane for several minutes.

5. And all your friends will join in!

6. Cars can fly.

(via Buzzfeed)

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James Franco GREASE tribute footage in REM’s new video

Two years ago some footage was leaked of a possible GREASE sequence with James Franco and Anne Hathaway during their unfortunate Academy Awards hosting gig. It looks like it’s now turned up in a new video for R.E.M.’s song “That Someone Is You’ – with Franco as Danny Zuko and perhaps Anne Hathaway (with a big kitty head) as Sandy.

Not sure what the symbolism is with the cat head. What do you guys think?

(via Towleroad)

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Bally Technologies to unveil new GREASE casino game

Bally Technologies, Inc. will unveil games featuring popular icons Michael Jackson, Betty Boop and the cast of the hit movie Grease at the 2011 Global Gaming Expo Oct. 4-6 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center on the Las Vegas Strip.

Grease, inspired by the 1978 American musical film about two love-struck teens in a 1950s high school starring superstars Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, is Bally’s first double-play game, featuring two, 25-line games – enabling the player to play two games at once.

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Sad news – Jeff Conaway overdose – critical condition

Jeff Conaway, best known for playing Kenickie in Grease, is in critical condition after an apparent overdose, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Conaway’s family members told the Times that the actor has been hospitalized at Encino Hospital Medical Center with pneumonia and is currently unconscious.

Conaway, 60, rose to fame playing one of the T-Birds in the 1978 film adaptation of Grease. Later that year, he co-starred in the popular sitcom Taxi, as actor-turned-taxi-driver Bobby Wheeler, before leaving in Season 4. He later appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful and Babylon 5 in the ’90s.

In recent years, however, Conaway has turned to reality TV. He was a contestant on the third season of Celebrity Fit Club, but was forced to leave the show and enter rehab. Two years later, he returned to VH1 to appear on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, seeking treatment for addictions to cocaine, painkillers and alcohol.