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John Travolta, Kelly Preston Photo: Governors Awards 2011
John Travolta, Kelly Preston Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta and actress Kelly Preston, Travolta's wife, attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he's co-starring with [...]
GREASE's Annette Charles Dead at 63: Mary Magdalene in IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORIC JESUS
Annette Charles, the high-school dancer Cha Cha in Grease, died on Wednesday, August 4, in her Los Angeles home. Charles, who was 63 [not 66 as previously reported] had been suffering from lung cancer. In Grease, Charles was the girlfriend of the Scorpions gang leader, Leo (Dennis C. Stewart). At one point, she dances with John Travolta's Danny Zuko and Jeff Conaway's Kenickie at a [...]
PRIMARY COLORS: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 5
Emma Thompson, John Travolta, Primary Colors Primary Colors (1998) Antonio Capuano's PIANESE NUNZIO: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 4 Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Elaine May, adapting Newsweek political columnist Joe Klein's novel, Primary Colors is a surprisingly effective fictionalized account of Bill Clinton's run for the White House. In the film, Southern senator Jack Stanton (John Travolta) is an [...]
French Films Down in 2010: Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER a Top Hit
Liam Neeson in Pierre Morel's Taken (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Morel's From Paris with Love (bottom) French productions and co-productions sold 17.9% fewer tickets abroad in 2010 when compared to 2009, according to uniFrance, which promotes French cinema around the world. French films sold an estimated 57.2m tickets internationally in 2010. Of those, 13m were sold in the United States [...]