| Reality show offers shot at Broadway | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:17:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Auditions were held this week for the lead roles in a U.S. television show with a prize part in the Broadway revival of "Grease" on the table. Hundreds of hopeful greasers and good girls jammed the open casting call in New York Friday hoping to land a coveted spot on a new NBC reality show where contestants will vie for the lead roles in the musical. Up for grabs on "You're the One That I Want" are the parts of Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko, memorable parts made famous by high-spirited actors Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in the 1978 movie musical. Most of the actors, many in period costumes, who began lining up Thursday night at the Palace Theater in Times Square were from New York, although some arrived from as far away as Florida, the Daily News reported.... | |
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| | | Oaks Christian Ends Venice's Winning Ways | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 3:03:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Venice High football team had won impressively the previous two weeks, surprising defending CIF Division 1 champion Loyola and then Santa Monica in one-sided victories. However, nationally-ranked Oaks Christian put an end to Venice's streak, 47-17 on Thursday, September 28, in a game that was televised across the nation by the Fox Network. Illustrating the increased popularity of high school football, a game is shown nationally each week. On this occasion, the Fox crew came to Venice High, focused on the marquee players and had a segment telling fans that the original Grease movie with Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta was filmed at Venice High, a fact well known locally. On the field, Oaks Christian dominated, taking a 28-3 lead and never being challenged in remaining undefeated while Venice's record became 2-2.... | |
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| | | Letter From The Editor: Mark Earns His Wings | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 3:08:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | By now we think you may be onto our little associate editor's note shenanigans, in which we inform you of our whip-cracking boss from hell's esteemed masthead companion's absentia due to humiliating, albeit completely fabricated, circumstances. Having cried wolf in the past on everything from gender reassignment surgery to Miata owner's conventions, we'd completely understand if you raise an incredulous eyebrow when we now tell you that Mark is currently on leave for a 48-hour, intensive training seminar at the John Travolta Flight Academy. This time, sadly, it's no joke: Your Defamer editor is at this moment logging thousands of miles and getting the kind of one-on-one, hands-on mentorship for which the JFTA is famous. He'll be back Monday, radiant and gushing about his sky-high adventures.... | |
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| | | John Travolta Cools His Jet in Hamilton | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:48:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Hamilton Spectator is reporting that actor John Travolta has been flying his plane "in and out" of the Hamilton airport over the last couple of weeks. The Spec reports that Travolta flew back to Hamilton on Sunday, and that his plane remained at the airport all day yesterday. Travolta is in Canada to film "Hairspray." Filming begins next Tuesday. "He waved at us and seemed to be in great spirits the whole time he was here," Lee Thomas, an employee of Glanford Aviation Services, said about Travolta's demeanor after he landed. .... | |
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| | | Jennifer Lopez Drops Dallas Due To John Travolta He's just not man ... | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 9:00:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez reportedly dropped out of the forthcoming Dallas film because she was not pleased with the script or her co-stars. Lopez was supposed to play the role of Sue Ellen in the new film starring opposite John Travoltas J.R. Ewing but pulled out of the project last week. Although J. Los rep confirmed that she had dropped the film no reasons were stated. A source has now revealed the reasons to the New York Post: The script sucks. And John Travolta? If it had been a man's man like Ed Harris or Tommy Lee Jones, but you don't just go from doing 'Hairspray' to 'Dallas'." Bitchy .... | |
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| | | Tony Bennett being honored at November fundraiser in Hollywood | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 11:06:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES - George Clooney, Paul Newman, Billy Crystal, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis will be on hand to celebrate Tony Bennett's 80th birthday with a charity fundraiser at the Kodak Theatre. Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps for kids will be the beneficiary of the Nov. 9 gala "Singers and Songs Celebrate Tony Bennett's 80th," music producer Lou Adler announced Monday. A variety of artists will perform, including 13-time Grammy winner Bennett. Ticket prices range from $50 to $5,000. Besides honoring the entertainment legend's birthday - he turned 80 on Aug. 3 - the event will raise awareness and vital funds for the Hole in the Wall Camps, a nonprofit organization with nine camps worldwide reaching out to children with serious illnesses and life threatening conditions.... | |
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| | | Film Interview – Vince Vaughn / 'The Break-Up' | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:08:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | With 'The Break-Up' making him a certifiable box-office champ, Vince Vaughn sits down with Paul Byrne to talk jokes, jelly and Jen. Vince Vaughan has certainly come a long way from his early breakthrough role as maddening motormouth Trent Walker in the 1996 surprise indie hit 'Swingers'. Back then, he was a struggling actor, taking on the 'Swingers' role purely to help out fellow nobody Jon Favreau, the two actors having met on the set of 'Rudy' three years before. That 1993 release was Vaughn's first ever credited movie appearance, having moved down to Hollywood in the late '80s from Lake Forest, Illinois, convinced he was going to become a star after he landed a spot in a Chevy commercial. That imagined overnight success would take more than ten years, and, even then, Vaughn appeared to drop the ball after his first big break.... | |
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| | | Any men go for the eyeliner yet? | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 11:13:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | Johnny Depp's smoky-eyed look has many fans among men. We look at how movies influence manstyle. They may not be rushing out to buy mascara wands and eyeliners yet, but men who are fascinated by Johnny Depp in the biggest blockbuster of the year, Pirates of the Caribbean II, are already trying out his new look. 'Pirates-grunge' as the style may be soon called, would include smoky eyes, shirts gathered at the wrists and some corsair chic accessories. Many Bangaloreans agree that movies have influenced their fashion preferences immensely. Whether it was John Travolta and his carefully coiffed hair in Grease that set off a fashion wave, or Aamir Khan's goatee in Dil Chahta Hai that had men rushing to salons, it is often a film that grabs the imagination with a new style statement.... | |
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| | | Hopelessly devoted to Grease | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 9:07:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE year after Saturday Night Fever's success saw another hit film for John Travolta and the stage version will run at the Bristol Hippodrome from September 18-23.Voted the number one greatest musical by Channel 4, Grease is packed with catchy tunes.Set in the 1950s it tells the story of two teenagers, Danny and Sandy, who have to break up at the end of a summer romance.They are surprised to find at the beginning of term they are both enrolled at Rydell High. Danny is leader of the T Birds, a leather-jacketed group of boys, who has an image as a tough guy to keep up.Sandy is new to the school and naive and is shocked by Danny's different persona. She tries to get on with the Pink Ladies all-girl gang but doesn't fit in with her prim and proper ways.As in all the best musicals there is a happy ending and Danny, Sandy and the gangs get to graduate from school.The smash hit songs include Hopelessly Devoted To You, Summer Nights, Greased Lightnin' and You're The One That I Want.FOR tickets, priced £16-32.50, call the box office on 0870 607 7500.... | |
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| | | Tween favorite lands 'Hairspray' | | Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 7:05:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nascent star Zac Efron, 18, best known for his role in the mega-popular High School Musical, has signed on to play teen heartthrob Link Larkin in the movie version of the musical Hairspray. This has proven to be a big week for the coming musical version of John Waters' 1988 film about desegregation on a TV dance floor in early-1960s Baltimore. Elijah Kelley, a 19-year-old Georgia native, has been picked to play Seaweed. .... | |
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