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Stockard Channing Says 'Grease' Wasn't 'Taken at All Seriously' at First
Stockard Channing reflected on the legacy of ‘Grease,’ revealing it was initially thought of as a ‘kid’s movie’
Cover Images Stockard Channing was an inimitable force as Betty Rizzo in 1978’s Grease, though the movie was never meant to become a huge phenomenon. Channing, who was 33 at the time, portrayed Rizzo, the 17-year-old leader of the Pink Ladies clique, and performed the show-stopping “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” ballad. “This is the reason, in my pathetic mind, I thought to myself, ‘I have now been the Fonz for 10 years,’” Winkler, 78, said, referring to his notable greaser Happy Days character, during a Wednesday, October […]
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