'Grease' Is the Word

'Grease' Is the Word

It's Got Groove, It's Got Meaning - and a Place in the Video Hall of Fame

LAS VEGAS, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) inducted "Grease," the 1978 Paramount Pictures musical about summer love and the senior year in high school starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, as the third entry in the Video Hall of Fame. The selection was announced at an awards reception that was hosted by Bob Saget in honor of Mehcad Brooks, Ed Burns, Roger Corman, Carmen Electra, and Peter Falk. The awards reception was part of VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006, currently taking place at the Venetian Resort Hotel casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006 is the annual convention for the home entertainment industry presented by the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA).

After a summer at the beach and discovering that "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing," high schoolers Danny Zucko (Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Newton-John) meet again in the halls of Rydell High School after Sandy's parents decide to extend their stay in America. Complications arise when Sandy starts to hang out with the Pink Ladies and learns that Danny is the leader of the leather jacket-wearing T-Birds. Surrounding these two lovers' struggle to be true to themselves and each other is a National Bandstand Television dance contest, a car race between the T-Birds and the rival Scorpions, and plenty of singing. Stockard Channing, Frankie Avalon, Sha-Na-Na, Frankie Valli, and others round out the cast of one of the most popular and successful musical movies of all time.

John Travolta was previously honored by the home entertainment industry as Video Star of the Year in 1997.

"Grease" joins "Scarface" and "The Godfather" in the Video Hall of Fame. The Video Hall of Fame recognizes movies that have continued to perform well in both video sales and rental over an extended period of time. Home entertainment retailers and distributors that are members of EMA select inductees to the Video Hall of Fame.

VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006, presented by the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA), brings together retailers, distributors, and suppliers of DVDs and video and computer games to learn about upcoming releases and industry developments and to celebrate the $32 billion home entertainment industry.

Source: Entertainment Merchants Association

CONTACT: Andrew Mun of Entertainment Merchants Association,
+1-800-955-8732, ext. 244, amun@entmerch.org; or Martin Blythe,
+1-818-906-2448, for Entertainment Merchants Association

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