Dirty Dancing, the stage version, will be running at the Cultural Centre from Friday. The all-singing, all-dancing production is based on the 1987 coming-of-age movie, which featured a misunderstood young woman, dancing, leggings, leotards and the six-pack torso of dance instructor Johnny (played famously by Patrick Swayze), who lifts the girl, Baby, over his head, in a move (above) that was recalled in the recent romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. Swayze would go on to superstardom with the mega-hit Ghost, alongside a grumpy psychic con artist played by Whoopi Goldberg …
During a career that began in the early 1960s, Walters has established herself among the doyennes of TV interviewers and in 1999 conducted the one-to-one with Monica Lewinsky (the woman whose "improper relationship" with Bill Clinton led to the US president's impeachment) that attracted more than 70 million viewers. It wasn't always plain sailing for Walters, though: as the first female co-anchor on a US network news show, she claims she had to cope with prejudice from producers and co-hosts. Walters also interviewed the then Shah of Iran and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez …