Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes through the opening credits of Saturday Night Fever. Right there is the little kid from New Jersey who danced in front of the television while he watched James Cagney storm-tapping through Yankee Doodle Dandy. The boy in the chorus who trundled his way through a nine-month tour of Grease. The young man who landed a supporting part on a sitcom, watched himself become a TV star, a pretty face on a poster, and a purveyor of slick, sappy top 40 ballads. All that bought him a shot at what is still, in the static-charged currents...
...street Tyrone Power," dithers Allan Carr, a manager-producer who landed Travolta for his $6 million film version of Grease, to be released in June. This time, five years after the road tour, John will have the lead, dancing and singing pre-fab rock-'n'-roll ditties in a voice that sounds like he's been gargling with Ovaltine...
...road with Grease and keeping an eye on the lively, lush-figured Marilu, who was bouncing around beside him onstage. "Johnny's spontaneous, but he's not impulsive," Marilu maintains, a fact well borne out by their romantic scenario. Johnny made it through most of the tour before he and Marilu became, as she says, "involved...
...redress such imbalances in the future, the boys have, like Travolta, established their own production company, and are planning a long concert tour and a new album for this summer. Robin may even move over from England (maybe to Miami, "or maybe Long Island"), depending on the tax situation at home and whether living Stateside continues to keep everyone relaxed. But the hot frenzy of fresh success is stirring some familiar memories. "It's starting to feel very much like 1967 and '68," Barry says. "It gets so everybody's running your life, or trying...
This year was no different, as coach Dave Fish worked his troops hard all winter, but emerged with only a 2-3 dual match record and a fourth-place tourney finish on the whirl-wind spring break tour below the Mason-Dixon line...