Christmas Morning and "Hairspray"

Tuesday morning we watched our 7 year old Granddaughter open her gifts from Santa Claus. She loved all her gifts, she made quite a haul, and was excited over all of them. It was fun to watch her that morning. One of her gifts was the movie “Hairspray”. She was so happy to see that! She and her Mother saw the movie a few months ago in the theatre and Dawn said she really loved it, and said it was her favorite movie. I had wanted to see it when it was here, but neither my husband nor son wanted to go with me. I should have gone alone, but I didn’t. So, on Christmas morning, before we left for home, we all watched the movie with Madelyn. We really did enjoy it, even Bob and Rob, who really didn’t want to watch it, said it was cute.

It was based on the dance program that I used to love to watch when I was growing up. “The Buddy Dean Show” from Baltimore, I watched it everyday on Channel WJZ-TV.

It also reminded me about “American Bandstand”, which the movie also refers to, which was competition for the Baltimore show. Bandstand was the same kind of show, but in Philadelphia.

AND, it brought to me the memory of one of my favorite TV programs that was on NBC a few years ago, for about 2 seasons or so. “American Dreams”. I watched it every week and loved it because it not only was about a girl that danced on Bandstand, it also over the period of the shows, delved into the issues that were taking place in the 60’s, politically, locally and with families. It showed the many changes that happened during that period, and was pretty accurate with the history. I noticed quite a while ago that the first season of the show was out on DVD. I wanted to buy it, but it was quite pricy, so of course I never did.