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John Travolta yesterday declined an invitation from the Harvard Lampoon to attend a reception nominating "Grease" as the Lampoon choice for worst movie of the year, Michelle Cohan, production secretary for John Travolta Productions, said yesterday. The first line of her response to the Lampoon stated, "Unfortunately, due to his heavy schedule, John Travolta will not be able to accept your invitation...
...Lampoon has not yet received Cohan's letter. "We're working on it," a Lampoon member, who wished to remain anonymous, said last night in reference to the invitation...
...Cohan said Travolta was busy with post-production and pre-production of movies, "and he's trying to do 'Welcome Back, Kotter' in between. It's really crazy around here," she added...
...Joyce Cohan...
DIED. Jack Oakie, 74, wisecracking comedian best known for his parody of Mussolini in Chaplin's The Great Dictator; of complications of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Abandoning a Wall Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille...