THE FANS' LOVE STORY: How The Movie 'DIRTY DANCING' Captured The Hearts Of Millions! by Sue Tabashnik Read Free Book Online Page A

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There was a ’57 Chevy owned by Jan Gilley that was used in the movie. Buddy drove this car.
I’m getting excited! (We were rapidly approaching Mountain Lake.)
Everybody that you talk to has heard of Dirty Dancing .
Of course.
Especially if you’re a young female . . . and we get a lot of telephone calls. They will ask us, “Is this where Dirty Dancing was filmed?” and we say, “Yeah” . . . and they’ll say, “This is where I want to come because I’m bringing my wife because she’s into that movie so much.”
Are you trying to tell me that the women like it more than the men?
Oh yeah . . .
It’s like when I saw it in Toronto—the stage play. The tickets were sent to me . . . the seats were down front about five or six rows. My two grandsons liked it . . . This lady was there with her husband . . . She said, “Well, my husband didn’t think it was such a great play.”
It’s a female movie . . . no doubt about it . . . but you get so many guys because their wives are into it, they are into it . . .
I interviewed one young man whose mom was really into it. She constantly played it in their house. He likes it, but I don’t think he likes it as much as his mom. (I interviewed his mom also.)
You know something, Mallory Longworth . . . she would never have come here if it wouldn’t have been for a teenage girl who was here with her parents, and she saw we were having a Dirty Dancing weekend. Then she saw an article (in Newsweek ) about Mallory. She got on the phone . . . evidently there are two Mallory Longworths in the Detroit area and on the second phone call, she got a hold of Mallory . . . and that’s the reason Mallory came down here. (See interview of Mallory Longworth.)
That is amazing!
That little girl is from Virginia. I couldn’t tell you what her name is . . .
I would love to find out who she is—you know because she was probably fifteen to eighteen then, and now she is thirty-five to thirty-eight—a little bit older. I would love to know what her reaction is towards Dirty Dancing . So you might ask Mallory . . . Mallory came twice for the Dirty Dancing weekends. ( Note: Buzz came up with the idea to have Dirty Dancing weekends. )
We are getting closer . . .
We are on the backside now . . .
Snow . . .
We had somebody come here and stay a week last fall . . . and I think they were from Italy . . . and they just came up here because of the movie . . . Well, it’s nine degrees right now . . . When I came up this morning, it was eight below . . .
Well, it sure is pretty . . . it is beautiful . . . can’t imagine—you know the summertime . . .
Oh, my goodness . . . oh, my goodness . . .
It’s kind of funny, Miranda Garrison, when she came up here to do the movie, she stayed in one of these cottages . . . and that is where all of the dancers stayed when they came to make the television series (the UK show Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life ). Miranda Garrison stayed in 315 . . .
When they did the television series, we used this house out here . . . The winners of the dance-off, they would come out here and have a special dinner with champagne and so forth . . .
Well, it’s gone back to six degrees . . .
Wow, a regular heat wave . . . very pretty . . .
They came in here and showed the hotel . . .
Oh my gosh.
From this angle—like they were coming to the hotel . . . and before we widened the road . . . they really came in the opposite way . . . it used to be one way around the hotel . . . you went in on the back side and came out on the front side, but now we widened this road since the movie. Also, these ballers and chains—they put those in to start with, and we have maintained them.
Awesome.
Of course, they parked here—right in front of the hotel.
Yes. “I don’t think I brought enough shoes.”
That’s the cottage right over there, and of course, we changed it around. It’s got a stone wall in front of it and the porch used to come off the front of it, and that’s the one the