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...history. Gilley burst onto the national stage with Urban Cowboy, a love story about an urban cowpoke and the girl who rides a mechanical bull better than he does. Set in Gilley's, the film featured the singer on the sound track and in the movie alongside stars John Travolta and Debra Winger...
...hang it up. Indeed, they are mapping out futures beyond their comfortable TV hits. Duff says, when she first played Lizzie, "I was going through the same period of my life that Lizzie was, so it was kind of cool. But I'm older now," she says, sounding like Travolta when he vaulted from Welcome Back, Kotter to Saturday Night Fever. (The Lizzie TV series has probably shot its last episode, allowing Duff to pursue her film career.) Bynes is even more determined: "I want longevity. I want to be where you don't get sick of me because...
...Actually, morale among the cowboys and cowgirls who whoop it up onstage seemed pretty high the night I saw "Urban Cowboy". The musical, based on the 1980 John Travolta-Debra Winger film about a young Texas hardhat who proves his manhood by riding the mechanical bull at Gilley's bar, features some perky dancing, a pleasant mix of old and new country songs and a female lead, Jenn Colella, with a fetching country voice that breaks in all the right places. The problems are a star, Matt Cavanaugh, who replaces Travolta's misunderstood-teen insouciance with white-bread Broadway blandness...
ACTOR John Travolta...
...PULL IT OFF? Yikes! Travolta lacks Stewart's whole-some charm. Even the comic chops he honed in Look Who's Talking Now won't save...