Travolta's new movie scuttled 10 days before premiere

Aww, I wanted to see it! They filmed a scene at my dentist's office.

Karma's a bitch, ain't it?

It's either really bad, or some more shit about JT's sexual harassment is about to come out. Or both. He sucked in the OJ miniseries (but so did Cuba Gooding), so I bet he sucks in this, too..

Does anyone know what is about to come out about him? It must be horrible...like worse than Spacey horrible.

Being dropped by CAA is pretty indicative of how bad it must be. As far as Kelly filing, that doesn't surprise me at all. She was probably evaluating her life as she approaches 60, and figured that she deserves to live an honest life in the time she has left.

Wow, something big must be going down, something worse than just being closeted and enjoying masseurs who provide happy endings. You don't lose your wife, your agency and get your latest Oscar bait movie shelved like this unless you've fucking murdered someone.

John who?

Has anyone checked on Olivia yet to see how she's taking the news?

Although I have never even heard any gossip of this, the one thing which would make everyone want to break all ties with him is a connection with a kid under 18. At this point, everyone KNOWS he is gay, so that ain't it. But just as with Spacey, who we all knew was gay, the charges of him "taking advantage" of a teen boy is just not tenable even in showbiz. That would definitely explain the Kelly jettison.

The ick factor of being married to a man who likes sex with males young enough to be your grandson is pretty daunting. Will Travolta pull a Spacey and use this to come out as a gay man in hopes of getting some sympathy and support? I hope not.

I wonder if John will ditch the clams if he is implicated in more homosexual scandals...? People like Travolta and Tammy stay in $cientology for protection, and so the "church" itself won't blackmail them with their own "auditing" tapes.

Stacy Keach is still alive?

wow babylon is crumbling. for the last 4-5 yrs i've stopped watching the oscars anyways. they have lost all credibility to me.

Okay, I'll do the reshoots. Just gimme some time to work on my Brooklyn accent.

If Travolta had starred in a super hero movie or a cartoon, it would not have been pulled.

R11 What the hell do the Oscars have to do with Travolta? He's entirely irrelevant there.

If that photo is any indication, it’s probably good it was pulled. Shitty acting jumping through a still photo can’t bode well for the actual film.

He's very relevant to the Oscars!

[quote]Gotti was directed by Entourage star Kevin Connolly,

We hate him.

Let it go, R16.

Travolta is next....

Blind Gossip has this day, too - gonna be a biggie.

Did Kelly really file? Like is there a People statement or is it just rumor for know...

*now

Someone once asked me if I would fuck him. I said I would...with a rusty nail.

That's why his wife filed for divorce, some nasty shit is coming up. Shit so big even Xenu can't sweep under the carpet anymore.

Rumor is that the body of Shelly Miscavige has been found in Travolta's toupee.

John hasn't had a big movie hit in years. Hollywood doesn't pay much attention to him these days especially with all the freight he's carrying around with him.

It is about time.

So gross

Young John was a pretty handsome dude back in the day.

Harvey Weinstein is partly responsible for his comeback.

He deserves whatever he gets just for foisting that Christmas album on all of us.

John got his big break on the '70's TV show Welcome Back Kotter.

R31 John did a Christmas album with Olivia. The album cover is ultra corny.

Blackmail Marriage: I guess this is back in the day. When you are stretching back past two decades, it seems like the right thing to call it. The thing is though, despite being back in the day, the three main players in this blind are all known to you. They are known to people who just are checkout stand tabloid cover readers. EP was making a movie when she met WB. At the time, EP was pretty close to A list. She was also in the tabloids a lot. If back then had been today, everyone would have known about her out of control drug use and the crazy sexual situations she was involved in on almost daily basis with her equally out of control actor boyfriend, who we will call MS. Anyway, EP and WB made a movie and they got along really well. They became friends. Fast forward just a touch and WB is off to make another movie. He made the movie with an actress we will call VC. They were long time friends and made the movie to help each other out. It was a movie that would change the life of multiple people and destroy the lives of many others too. WB is in the closet. Everyone knows this, but he continues to pretend he doesn't like men. At the time though, he was using a lot of drugs and the objects of his sexual lust were the teen boys who were numerous on the set. Things were out of control. He molested and sexually assaulted multiple teens during filming of the movie. I'm guessing VC would probably call it an intervention. I would call it extortion or blackmail. VC filmed one of the encounters and gave it to some people who were kind of managing the career of WB. Those people had a discussion with WB and said he needed to do what they told him or they would leak the video and he would not only lose his career, he would go to jail. They had big plans for him and apparently those big plans were more important than what happened to those kids. They put him in a house for two months and got him sober. They also told him he needed to get married. He asked multiple women and his people offered some women. None of the women agreed until he asked EP. She was in a really bad place herself and WB's people agreed to make her problems go away if she agreed to marry WB. Done and done. All these people know what happened to those boys and have done nothing. Money and fame and power were much more important than the lives of the boys they devastated. One of those teens spoke up a few years ago and a team of lawyers rained down on him and he went silent. He was crushed by the other side and later tried to commit suicide. EP: Kelly Preston Out of control boyfriend: Charlie Sheen (accidentally shot her in the arm) WB: John Travolta Movie: "The Experts" VC: Kirstie Alley Movie: "Look Who’s Talking" Group: Scientology

I was on a conference call today regarding Lionsgate and this was talked about. The truth is they were counting on this to be a big money maker and the finished project turned out to be a piece of shit. It's easier and cheaper just to shelve it than spend money promoting it and face embarrassment. The budget was only $12 million. Lionsgate doesn't have the money these days to waste on promoting a bad film. Just write it off.

[quote]What the hell do the Oscars have to do with Travolta?

Probably because I said the movie was Oscar bait. I didn't mean it was GOOD, I just meant it had all the earmarks of the usual biopic Oscar bait we get during this season. Like that shitty thing Depp was in a couple years ago about Whitey Bulger.

They didn't really shelve it, it was sold back to the production company. So the p.c. could find another distributor, and release it as soon as that distributor is willing. I don't know enough about those kind of deals to speculate whether it could be for any reason other than Lionsgate didn't like the finished product.

Forgot to add: This climate of waiting for the next predator scandal to erupt means even what could be just straight up business decisions look like evidence of wrongdoing. I don't doubt Travolta has issues, but that really isn't fair.

[quote][R31] John did a Christmas album with Olivia. The album cover is ultra corny.

Is the music any better?

Why do filmmakers think Travolta is a box office draw? Hasn't he made a string of straight-to-dvd movies?

[quote] If Travolta had starred in a super hero movie or a cartoon, it would not have been pulled.

He's gonna bolt from Hollywood because of this. Just you wait and see.

Danny Masterson was just fired from his Netflix gig. If Travolta is next it'll be interesting to see how much power the Scienos actually wield and how they will retaliate against those exposing their flock.

R41 He still gets tapped for high profile supporting roles but all his recent films where he's cast as the lead end up going straight to VOD and have minuscule budgets compared to his 90's blockbusters.

Ethan Hawke has also been churning out a lot of straight to VOD films recently. A lot of them are surprisingly decent.

That's where B-movies go these days.

bumping

r14 hey dumb dumb it said his gotti movie was oscar bait dumb dumb. try to keep up you abject failure...

R39 So was CAA dropping him as a client and Kelly leaving him just business decisions as well?

What r49 said.

Where there's scalp showing, there is a bad toupee.

Has anyone confirmed Kelly left him?

[quote]Has anyone checked on Olivia yet to see how she's taking the news?

Her ex boyfriend who supposedly died has been spotted. Sounds like Liv is no stranger to shady stuff.

[quote] Her ex boyfriend who supposedly died has been spotted. Sounds like Liv is no stranger to shady stuff.

You think?

Oh please, Travolta never picked up 18 year Olds....who are legal, assholes. Seriously, what is the matter with you bunch of old biddies? I heard John and Kelly were splitting.

R55, it's the combination of filing for separation from the 20+ year sham marriage. Why now? His reps dumped him. Why now? His film is pulled 10 days before a scheduled release even though it was super low budget and the studio had already spent money on marketing and advertising, Why now?

Maudie was award worthy. Hawke deserves a nod.

No, r33, Travolta got his big break in the 1974 Broadway musical Over Here!, where he stopped the second act nightly with his big song and dance number "Dream Drummin'." That's what got him his Kotter gig. It was a big hit show starring The Andrews Sisters and also launched the careers of his co-stars Marilou Henner, Treat Williams, Janie Sell, Ann Reinking and several others. And he was indeed fantastic in it.

It's a fun show with a good score by The Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins and other Disney musicals) but it was greatly dependent on The Andrews Sisters (the plot revolves a WWII sister act based on them) which makes it hard to revive.

Travolta really was great and unfortunately never quite so good again.

Then he became the Andrews Sisters.

R25 thank you for making me spit out my tea and choking.......this laugh saved me tonight.

Is there photo verificatia of the alleged 8 inches?

It will be released. All films eventually turn a profit, some just take longer

Think higher up the food chain in the production company as in the top. Then look into The Boys Club Network, Canada.

Clarificatia just in: the producers wanted it dropped by Lionsgate so they could pursue a wider release.

[quote] After the scrub, Travolta convinced the masseur to join him in the steam room, saying he didn’t want to be alone. There Travolta removed his towel to be “nude” and offered to demonstrate his own massage techniques, the report said.

Sounds like he has some skills!

[quote] She was probably evaluating her life as she approaches 60, and figured that she deserves to live an honest life in the time she has left.

Kelly just wants to feel a real dick in her vagina again.

[quote] She was probably evaluating her life as she approaches 60, and figured that she deserves to live an honest life in the time she has left.

When I lived in L.A. in the 80s, it was well-known among those who were well-known that ONJ held a "Ladies Night" at her Malibu manse every Tuesday.

Paul Baressi, whom JT picked up while filming Perfect at the Beverly Hills Health Club, arrived at the Bel Air hotel in the late 80s to continue his duties as JT's professional "trainer" only to be confronted by JT and his new "trainer" in the bungalow. JT, feeling bad, gave Baressi the contents of his fruit basket to Baressi and said his goodbyes. Pissed, Baressi went to the Enquirer and the story appeared in 1990. The Scienos went after him like a hurricane. They proved to JT that they could protect him and would continue to do so if he played along. But it looks like the tidal wave of bad publicity is even too much for them these days.

I'm shocked that this movie actually got made, they made the announcement close to a decade ago. Wasn't DL fave Lindsay Lohan supposed to play Victoria?

Move along, toots. Nothing to see here.

He's still dumb as a box of rocks.

He likely had to finance most of the small budget himself, but his ego is still huge to believe that another distributor is going to pick up his mess and give it a wider distribution. He'll learn when he has to settle for an even more limited release than Lionsgate was going to give him.

CAA stood by him for a long while, but they know now he's a lost cause at best and a publicity scandal at worst.

R66, they have an open marriage

Has it even been confirmed that she's leaving him?

I'd watch this late night on cable

CAA dumped him because he is a shitty actor and about to be sued by male victims who were minors.

It wasn't a rubber hose he stuffed in my nose!

Travolta's an expert long-time big league predator. He's got a team of lawyers and a skilled cult behind him well versed in hush money payouts. Spacey was too cheap to bring the big money settlements.

Gghjk

[quote]JT, feeling bad, gave Baressi the contents of his fruit basket to Baressi

Bitch thought that would work?

Fruit basket was code for the banana hammock I was wearing in South Beach

[quote]Clarificatia just in: the producers wanted it dropped by Lionsgate so they could pursue a wider release.

Ah, appreciatia.

He ruined my movie

He does that with lezzos hun

tee hee!

Is it true he is being sued?

Will he be joining Spacey in sex rehab?

I think he killed Adele Dazeem and hid the body under one of his runways.

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[quote]He ruined my movie —ON-J

[quote]He does that with lezzos hun —Lily Tomlin

Glad my movie only had Jeff Conaway. There, he actually got more to sing.

I don’t think he was ever attractive. He had a good presence on screen. Maybe it was confidence. It was that “something” that sells, but I don’t think he was handsome.

I agree, r77. I remember reading another allegation about Travolta. A massage tech claimed JT grabbed his package and then exposed himself in front of him. As soon as the guy complained Travolta reached into a bag and came out with an envelope full of hush money that he already had on him. Later, Travolta's people rang the hotel to complain about the tech, stating he was unprofessional and had initiated the contact between himself and Travolta. I think he's done this for years, but has always had the contacts, lawyers and the money to make it go away.

In the current environment it's harder to cover this kind of behaviour up anymore. If a scandal broke out now Travolta could end up like Spacey.

Travolta was never a pretty boy but he was genuinely sexy in his prime. Now, he's just a gross old lech who can't take "no" for an answer.

Travolta has had a real rollercoaster of a career though. First he was a broadway and tv star, then came SNF and Grease. He also did pretty well movie wise right into the early eighties, his career only began to really slow down afterwards. Then he had a minor hit with LWT, that brought him back from a string of flops. When he had his big comeback with Pulp Fiction he kept working in hit projects right through the '90s and early 2000s.

LWT?

Look Who's Talking

I don't think you could say he was a Broadway star though he had some success which made casting agents take notice.

I never watched Grease

What is your favorite film starring John Travolta?

I always had a soft spot for Battlefield Earth, a truly underrated masterpiece...

^^^^Xenu

Maybe Travolta would be happy to finally be outed. He's never struck me as being happy or discrete living in the closet.

His son died under very suspicious circumstances.

It wasn't suspicious r103, his kid had a seizure disorder but Clams don't believe in meds for that stuff so he died of a seizure.

R102 He's never struck me as being happy or discrete living in the closet.

I agree he doesn't seem happy in the closet or enjoying fooling people unlike the likes of DiCaprio, Pitt and Clooney.

and he didn't use his wife/beard for publicity or as much as other closeted celebrities did and are still doing. For example DiCaprio hadn't any new movie (as an actor) in the last 3 years but he managed to be everyday in news with a new beard and new drama It seems like he has a new beard every week that's so disgusting 🤢

"Oh my god she has this amazing body" —John Travolta

"He's this HOT guy" —Kelly Preston

The studio knows he's a big homosexual. He's finished in Hollywood. Do ya hear me!

Kelly Preston Ties Son's Autism to Chemicals

I thought he slipped and fell under the care of his manny.

he doesn't even look like gotti! wtf with the casting?

....

Did they actually plan to release this turkey at award season?

It's easy to criticise Travolta for not coming out, but he does live in one of the most homophobic countries in the world (images of Westboro Baptist Church come to mind).

I wonder if there are sexual assault crimes attached to this binning of his movie.

[quote]It's easy to criticise Travolta for not coming out, but he does live in one of the most homophobic countries in the world

He lives in Iran?

He has the most liberal job in the world in the most liberal state in the most liberal country in the world, Johnny Drama at r113. He's not a fucking scholar in Iran.

In May 1991, Time magazine published a cover story entitled "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power". In the article, former Church of Scientology Executive Director William Franks alleged that Travolta was wary of leaving the faith because he feared the Church would publish detailed revelations of his private life, to include homosexual behavior.[39] These claims were reiterated by Franks and other Scientology defectors in Lawrence Wright's 2013 book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, and former Church official Marty Rathbun claimed that he worked with Travolta's attorneys several times to keep allegations about Travolta's homosexuality out of the press and resolve lawsuits against the star.

2012 - John Travolta's Lover Feels Bad For Kelly Preston!

John Travolta's alleged gay lover of 6 years feels sorry for Johnny's beard/wife Kelly Preston!

[Quote]I feel bad for Kelly, she's obviously in the middle of it… How can you not be aware of it? "[On meeting John after their affair ended] I just said, 'So John tell me, do you still prefer men or women now that you're married?' And he answered me, 'Well, Doug, I still prefer men.' And I said, 'Okay.

he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere.

Travolta dancing with Diana, Princess of Wales, at the White House, November 9, 1985. She is wearing her Travolta dress.

In memory of his son Travolta founded the Jett Travolta Foundation a non-profit organization to help children with special needs.

John Travolta: I Ran Down the Stairs To Help My Son

R31 That's the wig I refer to as the "G.I. Joe". He looks like someone drew his hair on with a black sharpie.

What Christmas album?

R124 see R31

He wears the worst wigs I've ever seen, you'd think with all his money he'd at least buy a decent one. I remember seeing him at some awards ceremony where he donned a rug so bad it would have embarrassed Phil Spector...

It's wig? I thought it's transplant

John Travolta was good up till Face Off which I loved.

Then he had some hits and misses, okay films but after 2005 he got gross looking and movies weren't interesting anymore

He was hot in Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Staying Alive and up to Pefect

I think he is a bisexual who prefers men but married because he was leading man material. He hasn't been Leading man material since 2000 and probably should have came out and gave up the charade after his son died.

I don't think that John likes minors. He seems like he likes adult men. Had relationships with some and likes to hit on hot men. I don't see what is so terrible about a guy making his move. When does it turn into assault. You shouldn't be grabbing someone's junk. Harrassment comes into play by coming on someone who is trying to do their job.

There are massage people that do happy endings and I would think his people would have found out ahead of time if that was what John wanted. Make sure that the guy is okay with it.

The Gotti movie just by the director seems like it got pulled because it was god awful to me.

[quote]probably should have came out and gave up the charade after his son died.

I agree

His problem, per BIs and rumors and tab stories that have run for decades is that he has a thing for going after straight young men. Complaints from straight massage workers have gotten him banned from many spas supposedly. Now that he is older gay young men aren't as interested and he can be very persistent. This is the behavior that will get him into trouble with the public. He is not the nice guy everyone thinks he is. When it all comes out he is going to be an embarrassment for gays because the public will view him as the stereotype gay man harassing all the straight young men and not taking no for an answer. It takes a lot for 5 star establishments to ban someone of his ilk. And for the tabs to not have been afraid to report it. But leave it to stupid people to refuse to believe any of it. None of the straight people I work with think he is gay. Just extorted and harassed because of his fame and wealth.

r130, I can be a doubter myself but the kiss on the plane was it for me.

It's a bit late to come out now, I think he's fine with people knowing he's gay but I don't think he's going to announce it to the world.

Didn’t Travolta also get offered Gere’s role In Chicago???

the guy is a pig. he loves to eat. why doesn't he just puke it out afterwards like 90% of the actresses?

R115 Oh dear, you really believe the USA is the most liberal country on the planet? Jesus, read a book, travel, educate yourself.

People of Data Lounge:

The word is discreet. When you are speaking of someone handling their business in a low key hush-hush manner it is discreet, not discrete(a completely different meaning.)

Discrete and viscous are the two most misspelled words on DL this month.

Your beeng verry snippey!

It must be bad if they're going to punt on a multimillion dollar movie like this.

Wasn't there a TV movie made about John Gotti back in the '90s?

I still like him while acknowledging he's been a big closet case most of his life. But you know Hollywood is full of homos hiding in their own ways. Homos everywhere.

Any updates?!!!

I first heard about Travolta many many years ago before there were any public rumors. A very good looking young man I worked with told me Travolta hit on him.

There's no reason he would have been lying. And no he did not take him up on the offer. Next to him Travolta was a dog.

Did they make CAA honcho Jack Gilardi (taking a break from groping models in the back of the limo) deliver the news to JT?

Why is so fucked up? He refused to come out back in the day due to fear and his career, yet he constantly put himself at risk by the way he acted. Is it really true Scientology have been blackmailing him...

She is an immensely rich nasty queen with sizemeat! She likes only str8meat.

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This film is probably a hot hammy mess. Travolta been overacting for sometime now, though he used to be quite talented.

r3, I actually thought he was great people v. I actually forgot about that.

Is Gotti as bad as Battlefield Earth?

Is it bad in a "so bad it's good" way or just terrible? Is it wrong I kind of want to watch it?

He is still playing the wide eyed innocent act, for example with Jimmy Fallon the other night. My female relatives who love him still don't believe he's gay so I guess his act does work.

Fyhukg

Battlefield Earth Part II

Has anyone seen it yet?