The beloved Hollywood musical "Grease", based upon the not beloved Broadway musical, was a fondly, but not truly, nostalgic look back at the 1950s, where the older teenagers in history, danced and sang 50s pastiche plus the disco title track.
Jeff Conaway played John Travolta's best friend and was matinee style handsome and cool.
The movie, back in 1978, had a happily ever after ending, which went together like chang chang chang-it-ty chang
shoo-bop.
Jeff went on to the hugely successful sitcom "Taxi" and then a dead drop into drug addiction. Last week, Conaway mixed himself a lethal prescription drug cocktail, went into a coma, and died.
But "Grease" is oddly timeless: Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yip-pit-ty boom de boom