Ain t it cool john travolta biography
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BROKEN ARROW at 25: Ain't It Cool?
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer
“You assured me everything would go smoothly.
Everything is going smoothly, I assure you.”
Growing up in the 90’s, I was assured of at least two things, cinematically: Pauly Shore and big, dumb action movies. I love both equally and fiercely. Like a lot of tykes my age, I’m sure thanks in no small part to The Karate Kid (1984), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, I was obsessed with martial arts. If a movie had ‘Ninja’ in the title, I rented it and watched it over and over again. Mostly, I would put it on in the background while I cartwheeled around my basement, kick-punching the shit out of thin air. In the early to mid-nineties, there was no shortage of what the We Hate Movies Podcast dubbed ‘white-guy karate movies’ so I had a steady stream of content throughout the decade to keep my developing imagination enraptured. My favorite was No Retreat No Surrender (1986) featuring, in his first film, the man who would go on to be the king of this brand of action movie: Jean-Claude Van Damme.
My older brother would tell you, he regretted the day he put Bloodsport (1988) into the VCR. After it was over, I begged him to rewind
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John Travolta and Cool
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His career soared then plummeted to description depths reinforce Look Who’s Talking(1989) take up its development before Travolta regained his cool when he was cast change for the better Pulp Fiction (1994). A confessed devotee of description obscure, lesser moments selected film characteristics, Pulp Fiction’s director Quentin Tarantino indubitably chose Travolta for that role now of
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John Travolta
Biography
Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the son of Salvatore Travolta (an Italian American semi-professional football player turned tire salesman) and Helen Cecilia Burke (an Irish American actress and singer who had appeared in radio vocal group The Sunshine Sisters, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama teacher).
Travolta then moved to New York City to get a job as a performer. He landed roles in the touring company of Grease and on Broadway in Over Here!. Travolta also cut singles for a local record company, but the songs were quickly forgotten. But eventually, he moved to Los Angeles, California to further his career in show business.
Travolta gained his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a sadistic classmate who taunted Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 – 1979) in which his real-life sister Ellen Travolta, now married to actor Jack Bannon, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).
Around this time he also had a hit single called "Let Her In", peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His most memorable roles came as Tony Manero i