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...JUST that John Travolta looks ridiculously dated when he gyrates in his polyester disco-duds, while Astaire and Kelly weather 40 years with undiminished grace. Or that Flashdance, for all its sensuous verve, is just another rock video...

Author: By John P. Wauck, | Title: Reliving Glory | 1/23/1985 | See Source »

...Selleck and John Travolta, move over. New hunks have just muscled in. Last May, the US. Olympic water polo team-including Terry Schroeder, 25, male model for the controversial nude sculpture at the entrance to the Los Angeles Coliseum-posed poolside at Pepperdine University to raise money for the team. The 15-man picture turned out to be the hottest pinup poster of the Summer Games. Priced at $5 each, the first batch of 10,000 quickly sold out, the second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...year-old confessed aerobiholics working out in a California health club, and decided that they would be ideal for Perfect!, his new movie based on his Rolling Stone article "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Latham, who turned an earlier story into Urban Cowboy, has once again lassoed John Travolta for the lead role as a reporter who works for a Rolling Stone editor, portrayed verisimilarly enough by Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner. The twins play two of the many "good-bodies" whom Reporter Travolta interviews during his investigation of the health-club scene. The Denver-born Bayne sisters had cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Actor John Travolta was in the middle of a business meeting with a computer software publisher when someone mentioned Flight Simulator II, a program that puts Walter Mitty pilots into the cockpit of a single-engine airplane. An amateur aviator who flies a small jet out of his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Flying the User-Friendly Skies | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...Travolta is not the only person entranced by computerized flight. Every day thousands of Americans climb into their armchairs, ease back on their joysticks and head for the electric blue skies of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, which runs on the IBM Personal Computer, or SubLogic's Flight Simulator II, a version for the Apple, Atari and Commodore machines. More than 200,000 copies of the $49.95 discs have been sold to a diverse corps of enthusiasts, from first-graders bored with their video games to professional pilots who cannot seem to get enough of their jobs. Some businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Flying the User-Friendly Skies | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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