“After Dirty Dancing, I was America’s sweetheart, which you would think would be the key to unlocking all my hopes and dreams,” writes Grey, the daughter of an Oscar-winning actor, Joel Grey, and granddaughter of Mickey Katz, a comedian and musician who might have performed at Kellerman’s had it been a real place. At 27, having been paid $50,000 for her work, she became a household name. Cuffed, cut-off jean shorts and white Keds became the official summer uniform of every adolescent whose Sun-In and perm didn’t quite achieve Grey’s honey-coloured waves. Swayze’s line, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” became a rallying cry for disaffected Generation Xers – who, it turned out, craved rumba, romance and nostalgia just as much as anyone else. Photograph: Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze at the premiere of Dirty Dancing in 1987. How long must one woman pay for a personal decision? Why should any human being be boiled down to a punchline? As recently as 2007, The New York Times referred to “Jennifer Grey syndrome” – the phenomenon of too-aggressive plastic surgery – as if everyone is in on the joke. The second procedure, intended to correct an irregularity caused by the first, was more aggressive than what Grey expectedĪt 62, Grey is ready to take control of a narrative that has been in the public domain for so long, it has achieved mythological status. Grey underwent two surgeries to 'fine-tune' her proboscis. Grey doesn’t roll this way in person – she is forthcoming, warm and hellbent on connection – or in her book, which begins with a 17-page prologue about her nose and the plastic surgeries that derailed her career and (almost) robbed her of her identity. Some actors play it coy in their autobiographies, forcing readers to bushwhack through anodyne childhood memories and tepid revelations about fame before “opening the kimono” (Grey’s term) on the subjects they are best known for. “Why do I think everything has to be perfect in order to be enough?” Before the waiter had a chance to pour coffee, the star of Dirty Dancing asked a question that would be an apt subtitle for her memoir, Out of the Corner, which Ballantine Books will publish on May 3rd. Jennifer Grey arrived at a recent breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills in a flurry of regrets about the state of her shirt and her hair (both were impeccable).
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