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All right, you disappointing Bohemian Rhapsody lovers, here's another one for you.

According to my daughters, I am the only woman in the western hemisphere who hasn't seen/has no desire to see Mamma Mia. This is because I don't like Abba. Okay, I get that they're better than almost everyone who has ever won Eurovision. I get that their songs are musically complicated, even if they don't sound it. I also get that if you grew up with Abba, you're more likely to retain a fondness for them, and since I wasn't (it was early Beatles for me, and yes I do prefer early Beatles to later, surprise, surprise), it's less likely I would (especially as, IMO, they're almost impossible to dance to).

So Abba -love or hate? Mamma Mia - a guilty pleasure or so boring you fall asleep just thinking about it?

Still don't have a 70s icon, but I think Father Ted goes with pretty much everything.

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I've never sat all the way through the movie of Grease either, because I saw the show long before the movie was made and thought it was stupid. But John Travolta gives a very different kind of performance in Saturday Night Fever. When it first came out, I remember a movie reviewer out saying that a lot of people were going to miss this movie because they "couldn't stand John Travolta" (who at that time was best known as Vinnie Barbarino on the TV show Welcome Back Kotter) and that it would be their loss. I didn't believe him then, but several years later when I finally saw the movie, I had to admit he'd been right.

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I've heard it's very good too, of course. Maybe I will watch it one day, even though it'll be so weird to see the awful 70s clothes and hair again. :shudder: