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Then BLAM!, the Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over...
...Stayin' Alive" is one of the best dance songs ever recorded. Even if you have never experienced the thrill of disco, this work of art will have you strapping on your elevator shoes and opening up that butterfly collar. Soon you will be dancing like a John Travolta with this high-pitched symphony of disco melody...
...immortal Rocky and Bullwinkle. Charles Martin Smith's film was never released, but it is now being aired on Showtime. Because the small screen has laxer standards for comedy (after all . . . Full House?), you may briefly indulge the strenuously facetious antics, the wisenheimer narration, the cameos by John Travolta and John Candy. Soon, though, the adventure parody gets painful -- a kind of Traitors of the Lost Aardvark. Hokey smoke, what's next? Ted Danson as Clutch Cargo...
...show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled by the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, starring a mechanical bull and John Travolta. The crowd that had infested discos was suddenly squeezing into tight-fitting jeans and into pseudo-kicker saloons from Cambridge to Beverly Hills. Five years later, the boots were tucked away next to the platform shoes, and the New York Times was declaring that country music might soon be "as dated...
...church's former head of security, Richard Aznaran, recalls Scientology ringleader Miscavige repeatedly joking to staffers about Travolta's allegedly promiscuous homosexual behavior. At this point any threat to expose Travolta seems superfluous: last May a male porn star collected $100,000 from a tabloid for an account of his alleged two-year liaison with the celebrity. Travolta refuses to comment, and in December his lawyer dismissed questions about the subject as "bizarre." Two weeks later, Travolta announced that he was getting married to actress Kelly Preston, a fellow Scientologist...