I Carried a Watermelon

One of my all-time favorite movies is Dirty Dancing. Love it love it love it! It was the first PG-13 movie I saw and I saw it on my 13th birthday. I remember rewinding and freeze framing over and over again the scene of Patrick Swayze getting out of bed and the flash frame of his nekkid bottom. You know...I still pause that frame to look at that nice bottom!

I do not know why this film has such a hold on me. I LOVE it and about 2 times a year I will pull it out and just veg. It is not my all-time fave (SoM holds that honor) but, damn! Maybe because I am one of many girls who see some part of themselves in Baby. Nah. I never was that much of a bleeding heart. Actually, I think it had EVERYTHING to do with Johnny Castle! Wait, no thinking involved in that -- it had EVERYTHING to do with Johnny!

How many girls want a guy like Johnny? A bad boy, from the wrong side of the tracks with a heart of gold and gentle with his girl? He takes care of his dance partner, who is NOT his girlfriend when she gets into trouble, he falls for a girl out of his league even when other women are throwing themselves at him because they are bored -- and then leaves them when he falls in love. There are so many things that make him great!!

And the lines...I have used "I carried a watermelon", who doesn't want a guy to say "nobody puts baby in a corner." Even the bad lines like "My God, it's Cleopatra. I feel like such an asp." Ok, I did not get that one until a few years later...

Or maybe my love affair comes from the dancing!! I still want to dance like that, both the good and the dirty. When Baby finally hits that lift, my heart still soars. Love the dancing in that movie!!

But....Dirty Dancing came to Chicago as a stage version and camped out here for the better part of 3 months. And I REFUSED to go see it! Maybe it is because it is the movie on stage with no changes. Maybe it was because the guy playing Johnny was not Patrick Swayze but an Aussie who could not hide his accent that well from all that I have heard. Either way, I just could not bring myself to do it.

Either way, I want a guy in my life who wants to help me to shine. And maybe I just need to drool over Patrick Swayze's dancer body and HOT ASSET!!!