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Travolta cannot be immune to this mythmaking process. Like autograph hounds, it comes with the territory, and the quiet kid from Englewood, N.J., is already getting typed as a kind of Steiff Toy hoodlum. This has something to do, of course, with the parts that have brought him fame: Vinnie Barbarino in Kotter, Tony in Saturday Night Fever, even Danny Zuko, the cuddly tough guy in Grease, all rough-and-ready proles with a hint of self-mockery and a double dose of wistfulness. Travolta's low profile will be his best chance of holding onto his privacy and whatever...
...neighborhood in Englewood hasn't changed, and his parents still live in the same frame house. Kids frequently descend on the place now, and the elder Travoltas pass out glossies of their youngest son. Down in the bright red basement recreation room, there is a large bulletin board crowded with pictures of all the kids. Here the superstar receives equal billing with his siblings, and his picture smiles out among shots of Ellen, now 37, who is acting in pilots for both NBC and CBS; Margaret, 32, who does TV and voice-overs in Chicago; Anne, 29, just married...
...Englewood, Ohio...
Paul Zarmunsky. 40. of Englewood...
Success has come easily to Travolta: since he was 16, he has never been turned down for a part. He dropped out of his Englewood high school-a harsher, drug-ridden version of the happy school in Kotter after his second year, and soon landed summer stock roles, a part in an off-Broadway revival of Rain and the first of his 40 TV commercials. The role of Barbarino was a natural for him-"I knew that character from high school," he says-and soon after Roller's Dremiere in 1975 he was receiving 5,000 fan letters...