The Celebrity Dish

Weekend Roundup! Goodbye Kenickie

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Wow.  I'm a little slow on the mark on this one guys but can we take a moment to remember Jeff Conaway??  He died this past Friday in LA.  He had been on life support for a couple of weeks after an apparent overdoes (although his hasn't been confirmed).


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This makes me sad.  Addiction is a terrible disease.  And Jeff Conaway will ALWAYS be a part of my, and likely your, childhood.

Grease was one of the first movies I ever saw at a theatre.  My sister took me to see it in London, Ontario with her friends (could I be any cooler??).

I've since watched it probably a billion times...and I was always Kenickie girl.  I always wanted Sandy to dump John Travolta and go for Kenickie.  I was always pissed at Rizzo for being mean to him and taking that greaser to the dance.  (What the hell was his name??)  Didn't she know he didn't like Cha-Cha?!?!?!?

Anyway - I'm going to choose to remember Jeff Conaway from those days and thank him for being such an integral part of my growing up!

RIP Kenickie!

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Grease and the Grease soundtrack were huge for me growing up. Yes, RIP Kenickie.

Yes, that was sad news. I loved Kenickie too... I was a bit young to watch Taxi back in the day, but I remember where his face appears in the opening credits, you know? Shucks. Another one bites the dust...

Very sad - I remember seeing him on one of those intervention reality shows and thinking how sad his life had become. I loved him in Grease, and in Taxi too.