Re-Release: ‘Dirty Dancing’ Taught Us About Sensuality and Social Justice with Alison Greenberg

Love to See It with Emma and Claire

Claire Fallon, Emma Gray

Tv & Film

4.4 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Let’s head out to the Catskills and take it back to our first ever Rom-Com rewatch, the classic ‘Dirty Dancing!’ A perfect blend of sensuality and social justice, this film has truly stood the test of time. Joining us is screenwriter, rom-com aficionado and author of ‘Bad Luck Bridesmaid’ Alison Greenberg!

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0:00.0	Hey friends, as we head into the summer, we needed a little bit of time to plan for our live shows,
0:08.5	which are happening soon, June 6th in Philadelphia, June 16th in Boston, and June 22nd in New York.
0:16.7	It's our first little live tour in years, and we are really excited. We are also excited to be
0:24.0	recapping a classic Bachelor at episode featuring one of the all-time great Bachelor at Emily Maynard.
0:31.5	There will be laughter, there will be outrage, and there will be questionable men's fashion,
0:38.1	truly a lot of it. That is season 8, episode 5 of the Bachelor at. You can watch it ahead of our show on Hulu.
0:47.1	We'll be hanging out with special guests like Kelsey McKinney, Jill Chen, and Art and Marine,
0:52.8	and hopefully many of you. So you can get tickets to those shows now at love to see at pod.com slash
1:00.2	LTSI live. That's love to see at pod.com and click the LTSI live tab. This week we are rearing our
1:08.5	episode from last summer on Dirty Dancing, which features a really great conversation with author
1:14.4	and screenwriter Alison Greenberg. Dirty Dancing really contains so many timely themes, even though
1:20.7	it is very much a period piece, abortion rights, class warfare, and of course a truly timeless
1:28.9	location, the cat skills. Always in style, the cat skills. Also always in style, we would hope abortion
1:36.0	rights. And yet not quite as in style these days. So some important conversations and also just
1:45.4	we get to revel in the frivolous pleasure of Dirty Dancing's love story and impeccable dancing
1:53.1	scenes. One of the great teen romances. Hope you enjoy.
2:15.6	I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray. And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed recap
2:23.2	podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh,
2:28.4	cry, and curse the patriarchy. We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them,
2:34.2	but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us
2:40.4	about love, sex, and dating. Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about the movies that make you
2:54.9	think of sweltering summer days and steamy summer nights and of course summer love. This summer
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