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                        Biographical information for
                               John Travolta

Date of birth (location)
     18 February 1954, Englewood, NJ

Mini biography
     Travolta first gained fame as the swaggering Vinnie Barbarino on the
     TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975). In 1977, he parlayed his
     teeny-bopper fame into a big-screen career with the disco blockbuster
     Saturday Night Fever (1977). He languished in light dramas and TV
     movies in the 1980s, but started a comeback in 1989 with Look Who's
     Talking (1989). He further resuscitated his career with an Oscar
     nomination for his role as a heavyset sympathetic hitman in in Pulp
     Fiction (1994) in 1994.

Biography writer
     Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>

Spouse
     Kelly Preston (12 September 1991 - present)

Trivia
     He appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine 4 times, the most
     for any actor (through 1994).

     He was named Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club in 1981.

     Richard Gere practically owes his film career to Travolta. Travolta
     turned down the leads for Days of Heaven (1978), American Gigolo
     (1980) and Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982), all of which went to
     Gere.

     He made his Broadway debut in Grease (1978), reprising his stage role
     later for the film version.

     Travolta married Kelly Preston twice. Their first wedding on 5
     September 1991, by a French Scientologist minister, was declared
     illegal. The couple met during the filming of Experts, The (1989).

     John is a member of the Church Of Scientology.

     Travolta and Kelly Preston have a son, Jett - born 13 April 1992 was
     the youngest of six siblings - parents - Salvatore and Helen Travolta
     of Englewood, NJ During the filming of _The Boy in the Plastic Bubble_
     he fell in love with Diana Hyland, 18 years his senior - she died of
     cancer in his arms in 1977

Biography (print)
     JOHN TRAVOLTA by Michael Reeves (Jove Books, 1978).

Notable Guest Appearences
     TV commercial for the US Army (1973)

     "Empire" (UK), 1996, Iss. 82, pg. 100-104, Jeff Dawson



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    	I was poking around, looking for info on Horshak [Ron Palillo],
    	and just for fun I checked out John as well.  Some interesting
    	stuff in his biography.
    
    	And in case anyone cares, he's about 2 months older than Ron.
    

    Shawn,
    
    I don't even want to know why you were looking for information on Ron
    Palillo!  :^)  But, since you seem to care, I can provide you with a
    Trivia Fun Fact (tm) about him.
    
    Ron Palillo is a graduate of Cheshire High School (in Connecticut).  I
    don't recall what year he graduated, but it was one of my high school's
    few claims to fame (dubious as that particular achievement is).  The
    other claim to fame is Cheshire was featured in Life magazine some time
    in the late sixties/early seventies as a "typical American suburban
    town" or some such thing.
    
    - Dave

    
    	Dave, it was prompted by a question about the guy who plays
    	Leonard Prince on the show "Boston Common".  Someone said
    	that they'd heard that he was played by Ron Palillo, and I
    	doubted it highly so I had to look for the info.  And, as
    	long as I was in there, I figured I'd check out Ron's film-
    	ography to see what he'd been doing.  And the answer turned
    	out to be "not too darned much".  8^)
    
    	And BTW, the guy's name is Steve Paymer, and not Ron Palillo.
    

    
    
    Ron Palillo is dried up...
    
    last movie I saw him in was one of the last Friday the 13th movies
    about 8 years ago..
    
    I know he used to be on day time t.v, Hollywood squares and match game
    quite a bit back in the 70's and 80's
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    	I don't remember him from "Friday the 13th, Part VI", but I
    	have 'em all so I'm gonna watch it again soon.  8^)
    

    
    
    I think you only need to watch the first 10 minutes or so...cause he
    gets it pretty quick in the graveyard where Jason is buried. :))))
    
    ( you know you're dried up when you're the first to get killed off
    in a friday the 13th movie )
    
    Chris
    :)

    RE: Ron Palillo
    
    He had some guest shot as himself on some sitcom in the past few months
    ("Caroline in the City" or similar show) when he played the booby prize
    to someone who was hoping to meet Travolta at a party.
    
    - Dave

    I think that would be "Ellen", as he's sort of Audrey's (the really
    successfully annoying "friend") hearthrob.  I've only seen him on the
    show once, tho but they made a reference to Audrey going to see him the
    last time I watched.
    
    
    kim

    John Travolta has decided to release his album that he did in 1970's. 
    I guess from what the DJ's were saying on the radio, its not an album
    that is going to do good and the only reason why he is releasing it
    again is because of the recent come back in the films that he has had.
    
    cj

    
    
    yeah..I saw that in the stores.
    It has the grease stuff on it which was ok..but the rest looks like
    garbage!
    
    Chris
    :)

> John Travolta has decided to release his album that he did in 1970's. 

	From the news stories I saw, it wasn't John who "decided" to
	re-release that album, but who ever owns the rights to it.
	It appears however that he has no objections to it being done
	when he was asked about it ...