From the Dirty Dancing Wikipedia article…
Later, Baby discovers that Johnny’s dance partner Penny Johnson (Cynthia Rhodes) is distraught over being pregnant by Robbie Gould (Max Cantor), the womanizing waiter who is dating and cheating on Lisa, Baby’s sister. Baby learns that Robbie plans to do nothing about the pregnancy as he says “Some people count, some people don’t.”
From the Fountainhead Wikipedia article…
In the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, waiter and future medical student, Robbie Gould, uses the book to excuse his behavior toward the resort dance instructor, Penny Johnson, and his responsibility for getting her pregnant. He tells resort guest Frances “Baby” Houseman, that “some people count and some people don’t.” (This is not an actual quote from the novel.) As he says this he pulls out a tattered paperback copy of The Fountainhead from his pocket, suggesting she read it. But he wants it back because he’s written many notes in the margins.
I haven’t read Fountainhead yet. Anyone care to comment on the applicability or lack thereof of the philosophy of the book to Gould’s behavior in the movie?
