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MOVIES - June 27, 1988

<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

Forget about Club Med, travel scenesters. The hip ticket is now to rent a cottage in the North Carolina resort town where the hit film “Dirty Dancing” was filmed--Lake Lure, which stood in for the Catskills in Upstate New York. At the three-story stucco Lake Lure Inn, “DD” fans ask for room 205--star Patrick Swayze’s home while on location. They take the shower curtain, sheets and pillowcases. “If I had a hundred 205s, we’d be rich,” owner Bette Mojjis told the Charlotte Observer. “I feel like he’s here,” says Brenda Craven, 41, of Greenwood, S.C., who’s seen the movie 25 times. “If Johnny came through that door right now, I’d grab him, hug him and kiss him. I would never let him go.”

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