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...sounded like a match made in show business heaven. John Travolta: instant superstar when he strode down a Brooklyn sidewalk, the white-suited knight in a grungy Camelot, as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever; consolidation of stardom in Grease and Urban Cowboy; a sensitive actor with a stud's lean physique. Sylvester Stallone: instant superstar when he laced up his gloves and socked it to the champ for the full 15 in Rocky; consolidation of stardom in Rockys II and III, which he directed as well as wrote, mixing sentimental bravura with slam-bang action sequences...
...always, Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither. It brandishes the New York look, where every man needs a shave, and every woman a Porcelana rubdown. The Satan's Alley production numbers, full of grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself...
...recalls a sophomore year meeting with John Travolta, who had come to Cambridge as the Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year. "He said to all aspiring actors and actresses, if there was anything else in the world that we thought we could do outside of acting then we should do it. Then I said, We'll Terry if you want to act you have to decide that is the only thing that you can do, If not, you'll never make...
When the inevitable casting calls for Grease 2 went out, the two lovebirds from the original, John Travolta, 28, and Olivia Newton-John, 34, were wisely out buying groceries or getting body work done on their Mercedes. But they had to pick up their phones some time, and the result is a film now being shot in New York City that borrows heavily from the 1978 thriller The Silent Partner. In this movie, which doesn't even have a title yet-how about Greed 2?-Newton-John plays a bank teller, and Travolta is a two-bit robber...
...muffle the sound of Alka-Seltzer s fizzing. The show was a form of recall for the audience ("Hey, l remember that one!"), not only of the commercials but of performers who appeared in them 1 prior to becoming stars. A scrawny Sylvester Stallone hawked Rapid Shave; John Travolta sang in the shower for Safeguard; and a caLlow but ingratiating Dustin Hoffman crawled in and out of a Volkswagen, registering surprise at finding no engine under the hood. After an hour of this-interrupted of course by more commercials-viewers may have felt rather Like the man in another Alka...