The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.

Somewhat ironically, the star of the film was John Travolta, who only three years before had starred in Saturday Night Fever, a film that celebrated disco culture.

The 2000 film Lucky Numbers, starring John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow had multiple scenes shot throughout Palmyra.

In 1991, Quinn had his first major role in a movie, Shout, which starred John Travolta and in which he shared an on-screen kiss with Gwyneth Paltrow.

However, a second ceremony had to be conducted because the first, performed by a French Scientology minister ( both Preston and Travolta are Scientologists ), was regarded as invalid.

On September 24, 2009, Travolta and Preston confirmed longstanding speculations when they testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures.

James Cameron wrote a first draft under the title First Blood II, which originally had the idea of Travolta as Rambo's partner, but the concept was dropped and Stallone rewrote the script to have Rambo go solo.

Travolta had previously starred in Woo's Broken Arrow ( Cage was later to star in another Woo film, Windtalkers ).

This is not the only role that Travolta has turned down only to be taken by Gere: it had previously happened with Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) and occurred again when Travolta was offered the lead in both An Officer and a Gentleman ( 1982 ) and Chicago ( 2002 ).

Over its history, the magazine had multiple teen idols on its cover, including John Travolta, David Cassidy, Menudo, Michael J.

In 1977, Pescow had a successful role in the John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever.

While filming Urban Cowboy, John Travolta had a private corner at the Westheimer Road location of the Ninfa's restaurant in Houston.

Travolta lobbied De Palma to cast Nancy Allen for the role ( the three had previously worked together on Carrie ); De Palma hesitated at first — he and Allen were married at the time and did not want Allen to have a reputation for only working in her husband's pictures — but ultimately agreed.

Maddin, according to Savage's manager, is a fan of Detour, while Savage's role in his film —" a part that had been tipped to bring her an Academy Award "— also " introduced her to a legion of new fans, including Steven Spielberg, John Travolta and Martin Scorsese ".

The first track, " Quote Unquote ", was originally titled " Travolta ", referring to John Travolta, but had to be changed for legal reasons.

Shawn was married to Rita Bachner in 1946, and they had four children: Amy, Wendy ( married to Joey Travolta ), Adam, and Jennifer.

He had one grandchild, Rachel Travolta.

The film had a personal impact on Travolta and Hyland, who began a six-month romantic relationship until her death, after the film ended principal photography.

The single " Too Much Heaven " was released in the late autumn of 1978 ( it had originally been intended for use in the John Travolta movie Moment By Moment, but was pulled before the film's release reportedly because Barry Gibb thought the movie was awful when he was shown a rough cut.

17 May 2004-John Travolta landed his personal Qantas Boeing 707 at the airport directly from Mauritius as he was visiting a nearby private game reserve.

The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum " You're The One That I Want " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC ) with John Travolta, the gold " Hopelessly Devoted to You " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC ) and the gold " Summer Nights " ( No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC ) with John Travolta and the film's cast.

In November, Dalida performed a Broadway-themed show at Carnegie Hall in New York, choreographed by Lester Wilson, who created the dance routines for John Travolta in the previous year ’ s 1977 cinema smash Saturday Night Fever.

Among his other film music credits are the theme song to the short-lived 1993 CBS television series Johnny Bago ; " Turning Around " for the 1985 film Summer Rental starring John Candy ; " I Don't Know ( Spicoli's Theme )" for the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High ; " Hello, Texas " for the 1980 John Travolta film Urban Cowboy ; and " If I Have To Eat Someone ( It Might As Well Be You )" for the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, which was sung in the film by rap artist Tone Loc.

* June 4-Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Actors who have performed at Lakewood include John Travolta, Carol Channing, and Phyllis Diller

* In the movie Pulp Fiction, when Vincent ( John Travolta ) asks if he can have a taste of Mia's ( Uma Thurman ) milkshake, she offers it to him, and he starts to take out her straw, at which point she says, " You can use my straw.

She has been described as " of the church's best friends currently serving in Congress ," and was " honored at a 2004 Celebrity Centre gala " with famous Scientologists such as John Travolta and Kelly Preston.

He continues to work in film, with such films as Big Momma's House 2, which opened # 1 at the North American box office and grossed almost $ 28 million its first weekend, and Wild Hogs ( 2007 ), in which he plays a bored suburbanite seeking adventure on the open road in a biker comedy alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen and William H. Macy.

Bush, George Benson, Dyan Cannon, Michael Douglas, Crystal Gayle, Rock Hudson, Reba McEntire, John Travolta, Ben Vereen, and ZZ Top ate at Ninfa's.

It was at the Latin Symbolics Studio where Tony Manero who John Travolta played in the movie Saturday Night Fever, was taught to do the original Spanish Hustle, by the Latin Symbolics Dance Team, for a special showcase Tony was going to be doing in Las Vegas in 1977 after gaining popularity after the release of Saturday Night Fever.

The film begins in a restaurant in Los Angeles where a man ( John Travolta ) discusses Dog Day Afternoon before walking off, with numerous SWAT officers pointing guns at him and a disheveled man ( Hugh Jackman ) following him out.

While Stanley is at home ( a trailer in rural Texas ) practicing his golf swing, Ginger Knowles ( Halle Berry ) shows up to solicit his hacking skills for her boss Gabriel Shear ( John Travolta ).

* John Travolta, Richard Gere and Denzel Washington were each, at one point or another, set to star in the film.

The BD-10 prototype aircraft which flew over 200 hours at the Mojave Flight Test Center in California, and was flown by such notables as General Chuck Yeager, Hoot Gibson, Bob Hoover, John Travolta, Jerry Seinfeld, and Victor Belenko.

Tony Manero, the lead character ( played by John Travolta ), walks along the sidewalk, admires shoes in a storefront window, buys two ( stacked ) slices of pizza through a pizzeria window-counter, and ends up at the hardware store where he works ( based on a real hardware store on Fifth Avenue in nearby Bay Ridge ).

It was written by Douglas Day Stewart, executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg ( who, at the time, produced Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels ), and directed by Randal Kleiser, who would work with Travolta again in Grease shortly after.

Chief Warrant Officer Four Paul Brenner ( John Travolta ), a Vietnam Veteran of the 196th LIB, is in Georgia masquerading as First Sergeant Frank White at a local army base, to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fighter.

In a take off of John Travolta in the 1983 film Staying Alive, Bart struts down a street in Springfield after he is invited to dinner at the Lovejoys, just as Travolta strutted through Times Square to the same tune.

Venice High School was used as the Rydell High School location for the 1978 movie Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Venice High was used on an episode of Glee ( Yes / No aired January 17, 2012 ), which recreates the classic " Summer Nights " scene from Grease, as made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ( and filmed on the same location ).

Preston first met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts.

He played the role for 2 1 / 2 years while his friend John Travolta, with whom he shared a manager, later joined the show, playing Doody in the chorus.

He introduced John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston when he put them together for the first time in the Paramount film Thomas directed entitled The Experts, while filming in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer ( John Travolta ) has a personal vendetta against civil freelance terrorist Castor Troy ( Nicolas Cage ) after Castor killed Archer's son Michael while trying to assassinate Archer.

The film follows the efforts of the other men in his unit, Ladder Company 49, led by the efforts of Deputy Chief Mike Kennedy ( John Travolta ), his longtime mentor, to rescue him while Jack tries to reach a safe area of the burning structure.

The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful.

Madonna wearing a pink leotard while dancing in the ballet studio in the John Travolta and retro inspired " Hung Up " video.