John Travolta

Small screen to big time

source: Edmonton Sun

  Canada John Travolta: He was just dim but affable sweathog Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter before 1977's Saturday Night Fever made Travolta a disco-dancing, white-suited pop culture icon. - Michael J. Fox: Family Ties' Alex P. Keaton was a ...

Published Sun, Jun 7

'Office' star making film waves

source: Jam! Showbiz

 Canada John Travolta: He was just dim but affable sweathog Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter before 1977's Saturday Night Fever made Travolta a disco-dancing, white-suited pop culture icon. Michael J. Fox: Family Ties' Alex P. Keaton was a last-minute ...

Published Sat, Jun 6

Pull Yourself Up By Your Rebootstraps!

source: journalgazette.net

 IN Kutcher is like John Travolta if Travolta had decided in 1976 that he was only going to play variations on Vinnie Barbarino for the remainder of his career. Anyway, don't ya just know one of these guys is going to take Michael Douglas' place in the ...

Published Sun, May 31

Podcast: Five Observations on Saturday Night Fever

source: dkpresents (WordPress)

5) John Travolta should have won an Oscar for this performance. Because he had travelled the narrow character path from Vinnie Barbarino (on TV’s Welcome Back Kotter) to Tony Manero to Danny Zuko (in Grease), it was easy to assume that Travolta was just “playing himself” and not really act...

Published Sun, Jan 11

5 Things We Love About Movies With Guns - Pulp Fiction

source: moveitmoveit (WordPress)

The glory days of Welcome Back, Kotter and Saturday Night Fever were over, and Travolta's career was slowly sinking into a Look Who's Talking hell. Because of Quentin Tarantino, Travolta went on to give us Swordfish, Battlefield: Earth (oh how I cried when I saw that one) and Wild Hogs, whi...

Published Thu, Apr 3

DVD Review: Saturday Night Fever (30th Anniversary Special ... - Monsters and Critics.com

source: Monsters and Critics.com

DVD Review: Saturday Night Fever (30th Anniversary Special ...  UK - This was Travolta’s break out role after being known for his work on Welcome Back Kotter. The TV to movie transition was unique for its time and Travolta ...

Published Tue, Sep 18

DVD Review: Welcome Back, Kotter - The Complete First Season

source: Blogcritics

Eventually Travolta’s Barbarino will be the breakout star before we even knew who Fonzie was, and the stories will begin to focus far too much on him. That is not the case in season one, as each character gets the spotlight. ...

Published Wed, Jun 20

13 Conversations About One Boring 'Welcome Back Kotter' Thing

source: Defamer

We'd completely forgotten that our favorite former Disney CEO had a cute little chat show over on CNBC (we'll have to do some research and figure out if we get that channel), until a helpful tipster forwarded us this clip from an upcoming episode of Conversations with Michael Eisner, remi...

Published Thu, May 17