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John Travolta is an award-winning actor who had breakout roles in 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease.' He had a career revival with 'Pulp Fiction' and has starred in a wide range of additional projects.
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“Staying Alive” (1983), directed by Sylvester Stallone, resulted in some of his worst notices. (Stallone also got clobbered.) But moviegoers made it a hit (worldwide grosses: $150 million). Along with “Grease” and the upcoming “Look Who’s Talking,” it remains one of Travolta’s...
The early-to-mid 1980s were unkind to John Travolta — but before the career-suspending trifecta of Staying Alive, Two of a Kind, and Perfect, Travolta had the opportunity to star in Brian De Palma’s Blow Out. A bleak thriller that successfully juggles a number of heady themes, Blow ...
Now 64, Travolta keeps churning out one forgettable programmer after another. Can his career be saved?
Travolta's army of fans had no desire to watch him playing such a role. To add to his misfortune, all of his mid-1980s films— Staying Alive (in which he reprises Tony Manero), Two of a Kind , and Perfect —were downright disasters. By the end of the decade, he was considered a...
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