-Isms: Views on life in rural America

Trivia time: Which singer passed on the role of Sandy in the film version of “Grease?”

Can you see Marie Osmond playing the good-girl-turned-biker-babe? What about Carrie Fisher? Or Susan Dey, who played Susan in “The Partridge Family?”

The iconic film from my teen years would not be the same without Olivia Newton-John snuggled next to John Travolta as the two fly off into the clouds in the 1977 movie produced by Alan Carr. The entire family, and my high school beau, watched the box office blockbuster at the Rivoli Theater, in Hastings, during its opening weekend. The classic dichotomy between...