Word: kotter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone, in other words, like John Travolta, whose own career is more like a Saturn rocket than anything on his pinball machine. As TV's Vinnie Barbarino, the dedicated underachiever of ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter, he probably draws more soulful sighs from the teenybopper set than any other star in the country. He had an important part in Brian De Palma's Carrie, and he is the star of next spring's movie version of Grease...
Saturday Night Fever is an ideal showcase for Travolta's talents. He swaggers like Mussolini on his platform shoes, struts like Schwarzenegger in his black bikini briefs, and dances like Greco in his white suit. Most of all Travolta shows that he can act. Mr. Kotter's No. 1 sweathog gives a performance of such intensity that he may just grab an Academy Award nomination...
While the stereotypes are hilarious and wonderful. "Lost Cookies" turns into something more than a Cantabrigian "Welcome Back Kotter." The dialogue is daring--Maggie calls Sal "numbnuts," and Sal replies, "You're a tease, Miss Tight Ass"--and it never seems forced or garish...
...Marie Osmond in the hearts of the eleven-to 15-year-old crowd. Taking Don Murray's old role in Bus Stop is just a passing thing for him. Travolta is best known as Vinnie Barbarino, the tough, macho "Sweathog" in ABC's hit series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show is an updated version of Happy Days, a genial exercise in instant nostalgia, and Vinnie Barbarino is barely distinguishable from Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. the Fonz, who made Henry Winkler famous. As it happens, Travolta even resembles Winkler...