Back when I was a teenager, in a decade known as ‘the Eighties,’ I spent a lot of time at the movie theater. My friends alternated between the theater one weekend and the recreation center the next. It was a great system when I had the disposable money of my parents to burn.  I remember when Dirty Dancing came out. As always happens, we were bombarded by advertisements leading us to believe this would be the must-see movie of our generation. I’ve always been easily swayed by such hype and I wanted to see it with my friends.

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