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Sandra Dee Olsson. Better known as Olivia Newton John in Grease. She was a pure, innocent senior in high school in the 1950s when she met and fell in love with Danny Zuko at the beach that summer. When they discovered that they were both attending the same high school, they didn’t exactly pick up where they left off.Know that I watched Grease on television next to my mom who lived as a teen in the 1950s, so this probably affected me, since she had a running commentary about Sandy and Danny.When the couple meet up again, Danny is revealed to be a greaser, and he’s the leader of the T Birds, so Danny isn’t the sweet boy from her summer. Sandy hasn’t changed, honestly. She’s a cheerleader type, wants to do the right thing, and while she likes Danny, Sandy isn't going to lower herself to his status. And yet, she’s hanging out with the Pink Ladies (sort of), and Snady realizes she has deeper feelings for Danny than she originally thought.They live in two different worlds. But that isn’t the issue. It’s the school dance that’s being nationally televised. Danny takes Sandy, and she’s a bit shy while he’s incredibly confident as a dancer. I used to be okay with the switch organized by Cha Cha DiGregorio, which saw Sandy being rotated out of the dance to be replaced by Cha Cha who wanted to win.I used to think, “Poor Sandy, she was forced out of the dance competition and Danny won with Cha Cha.” That was the old me. The adult looks at the scene and I think, “No way would I be chill with my boyfriend or date ditching me to win the contest with another girl.”Danny should have run after Sandy.This is the guy who like Sandy so much that he lettered in track to impress her. Sandy was a cheerleader, of course. Sandy should have made Danny crawl back to her. Day after day, because he kept dancing! I don’t care that he was fabulous in Saturday Night Fever (out of context but still pertinent to my thinking back then). Danny was not a gentleman to Sandy that night.A gentleman stays with his date. Sandy is worth one hundred dance trophies, and yet she took him back at the drive-in (sort of), until she flounced off. I’m cool with the ending. My mom hated Sandy’s change, saying no decent girl would do that to herself. I wanted to tell her it was just a movie, and I also related to Sandy’s transformation. I liked that part very much.That look right above? Oh yeah, he is so into the sexy version of Sandy. I get that part. She needed help transforming from a too pure lady into a grown up and sexy looking woman. I know some won’t agree with me, but I do think Sandy just wanted to show Danny she could fit in his world, while he was trying to show Sandy (via his letterman jacket) that he could fit in her world.I adored the dance at the fun house. Loved it. Still do.Okay. Maybe the cigarette was going too far in 1950 something, but I was smoking by senior year in high school, so again, I thought it was fine. (I gave up smoking at uni when my husband said he couldn’t date a smoker. I quit that day.) But in the 1950s, many kids were picking up smoking to look cool, so Sandy did it too.Remember that he lettered in track for Sandy….I love the end. Even though my mom said no one stays friends with their high school friends. Hello, Facebook! Yes, we do, mom!I don’t like that Danny decided to stay and dance with his old flame, Cha Cha, who has clearly been around men. Danny should have run after Sandy, since he brought her to the big dance. What happened to her was cruel, and now that I’m older I’m so not okay with him merely shrugging off the fact that some guys trundled off Sandy, only to face his old girlfriend, Cha Cha. Not cool Danny Zuko.Danny might have won that dance trophy, but he lost the real trophy that night, and Sandy needed a huge apology for the rest of the school year from the guy who made a very bad decision that night. I know. I’m probably being too hard on Danny. He was just a senior in high school. But still, Cha Cha? Come on Danny!Then again, maybe Sandy needed to loosen up a bit. They ended up together, so all was well.

I think she could be a very good actress. She may not have a great deal of experience in front of the camera she still has something that shows through no matter what role she takes. In “The Giver”, she was only on screen for a very short time but I recall many of the cast and crew saying very good things about her abilities. She also did an animated film “The Lorax” though you couldn’t see her I liked the film. I know a lot of people like to give her grief about the part she had in “Valentines Day.” But honestly, if you think about her role as a High School cheerleader, er sorry Dance Team, I think she nailed the part. It helped that she was still a teen-ager and I believe just graduated High School herself. The downside to getting a role in films or TV most people will just say she got it because of her name and how famous she is. They may never give her a chance. But people said the same things about Dolly Parton and Olivia Newton John and I think they did a pretty good job.

Not only should college athletes be paid, but they should be free to seek the best deal they can obtain from the university. The best players should get the biggest dollars -- unlike now, where all players get the same amount: bupkus.And by the way -- this should apply beyond sports.If Harvard and Yale want to get into a bidding war for the top high school debate champion in the country, he or she should be able to max out value as well. Master Debaters are way, way underpaid, and don't even get ancillary benefits (see: social life) like, say, football stars do.If Juliard wants to bid against Berklee School of Music for the best high school opera singer in the world, why not?If CalTech wants to battle MIT for the best programmer, bring it on.If the University of Miami and say, Florida State, want to get into a bidding war over the hottest cheerleader, have at it. (Admit it, own it: Some of you wanted me to post images for this one). Cheerleaders need to get paid -- who is with me on this?Let free market economics rule.Why shouldn't Cam Newton have been able to say to Auburn, "Hey, pay me $15 million a year and I'll stay for my senior season?" Why shouldn't the best women's volleyball player in the country be getting paid like it?And BTW... why shouldn't the best mascots on college campuses -- like the Stanford Tree and the Syracuse Orange -- be competing to get their best deal and market value?After all, the Syracuse mascot, Otto the Orange, has been much better than the football team over the past few years. Just saying. That dude can ball.Jonathan Brill, one of Quora's best, and totally worth following... nails it elsewhere in this thread with: "Derrick Rose isn't a student athlete. He's a professional athlete who is forced to play one season for college due to a rather arbitrary requirement from the professional league...." Exactly.Mr. Brill is a brilliant writer; I concur with his assessment completely.To those who say "student athletes are already paid, because they receive scholarships".... let us cede that a scholarship is, in fact, some compensation.But let's also keep it real: So few of the elite sports athletes (football and basketball in particular) graduate that it's hardly guaranteed value.Plus, scholarships aren't guaranteed. Student athletes aren't tenured teachers -- they can be fired at the whim of the coach.And in case no one has noticed, college basketball coaches (as one example) aren't always understanding, rational people:If pay for college coaches -- many of whom are their state's highest paid public employees -- is NOT capped, how can anyone call for a cap on player compensation?The University of Connecticut's Mens' Basketball Coach, Jim Calhoun, made $1.6 million last year. Star guard Kemba Walker, who darn near single-handedly led the Huskies to the NCAA Title, made zilch. How is that fair?Head Football Coach Pete Carroll "caked up" and banked millions while running the Trojans... right into an onslaught of disgrace and NCAA violations... whereupon he blew town to take over the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. The players he coached (illegal payments to Reggie Bush notwithstanding, ahem) made little money. How is that fair?And on Reggie Bush, if you can do this as a college RB, you should get paid:Although Bush did enjoy one pretty good perk, at least temporarily, by dating The Situation's marketing idol (http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/the-situation-thinks-hes-larger-than-kim-kardashian-2010159), Kim Kardashian:(NOTE TO SELF: Maybe Reggie Bush isn't the best argument here.)Personally, I believe college basketball coaches should go unpaid for the next five years, and their collective salaries should be distributed to current and former players as reparations for the way players have been robbed by these guys. When the highest paid faculty members at many school are college basketball coaches, something is wack.But I'm not completely crazy. Paying college football coaches more than any other faculty member is totally understandable.(Kidding).