John Travolta Articles

John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Grease Don’t ask my why, but I used to get Randal Kleiser and Irvin Kershner confused. It’s a mystery. Kershner directed The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which has nothing at all to do with Kleiser’s Grease (1978) — except that both were big box-office hits in their day. Grease, which stars John Travolta at his most, huh, unisexual, is on Turner [...]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sandra Bullock, Michael Bay, and Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, and Joe Jonas were the rock-bottom winners at the 2010 Razzie Awards. Billy Ray Cyrus pulled an upset victory, defeating Robert Pattinson in the Worst Supporting Actor category. [See Sandra Bullock at the Razzies ceremony.] It’s not that Pattinson (in the running for The Twilight Saga: New Moon) was worse than [...]

Barbra Streisand (above in Funny Girl), Kathy Bates, and Charlize Theron — three former Best Actress winners — will join former Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Travolta as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Kathy Bates won her Academy Award for Misery (1990). Barbra Streisand won a Best Actress [...]

Channing Tatum in Lasse Hallström’s Dear John (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in From Paris with Love (bottom) According to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo, Lasse Hallström’s romantic tearjerker Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, topped the domestic box-office this weekend, with $32.4 million in ticket sales. Avatar came at a distance second, with $23.6 million. James Cameron’s 3D [...]