Summer Days, Summer Nights

Pico, Debbie, Frankie, Suzy, Winky and Terry

Summer Days, Summer Nights originally went by the title Summertime, as in the song by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which is interesting because that’s exactly the vibe it has – beautiful young people all just hanging and chilling and cooling about, enjoying the heat, soaking up the rays and basking in the hotness of youth. Maybe the title changed because Ed Burns’s film is set nine years before Jeff Townes and Will Smith had their hit. Maybe the original title makes too ironic the lack of black faces. Who knows? Whatever the reason, here we are on Long Island in 1982 and following a group of six young people – … Read more