John Travolta [antikvár]

John Travolta F Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. John Travolta has proven him wrong. The white-suited Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and the leather-jacketed Danny Zuko of Grease (1978) were images that helped define American cinema in the 1970s, making Travolta the biggest American superstar since Elvis Presley. But, as with Elvis, the movies didn't always know what to make of him, so in the 1980s he made a series of movies that practically destroyed what was then Hollywood's most glittering career. No 7 said, once you've become a character you are another person. You have to be quiet when it's not your turn. And you just don't make an entrance by running into a room. You let people have a look at you when you walk in.' Helen Travolta's acting advice to her son John actor had ever gone so far so fast in Hollywood, but, equally, few have ever shown such a lack of judgement in maintaining such a career or experienced such a fall from grace. But in 1994 all that changed - with a little help from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction became a movie phenomenon, helping to define the cinema of the 1990s in the same way Saturday Night Fever had the 1970s. At the centre of it all was John Travolta, reborn as a movie icon — older, wiser but, as the second Oscar nomination of his career confirmed, just as talented an actor as before. John Travolta is the only actor in Hollywood history ever to have become a superstar in two distinctly different eras, and recently attained the distinction of becoming the highest-paid actor in Hollywood liistory. Travolta family legend begins with a kidnapping. Neapolitan Salvatore Travolta swept his love Giuseppina Marsala off the deck of an ocean liner bound for her native Sicily. A traditional wedding quickly followed to save the girl's honour, and from this union five children were born, among them Salvatore Jr.