Olivia Newton John is DEAD to ME Part 2

Still dead!

Lol. Wrong thread.

Is John Travolta comforting Matt Lattanzi?

Matt Lattanzi is 63, r3. He doesn't look like he used to look.

Nor does John Travolta, for that matter.

“Magic” is worth revisiting in memoriam.

Kristin

I can't see any pictures online of the bald 63 year old Matt Lattanzi.

I always thought Matt Latinas was 100 percent Italian, then reading his Wikipedia entry today, I learn his dad's Italian and his mom is Polish. DL fave Thom Bierdz is also of Polish-Italian descent. I guess that ethnicity combination is capable of producing some stunning male beauty.

And yet again I ask - why are some Americans so obsessed with race?

Oops should say Matt Lattanzi not Matt Latinas above (auto-correct error)

This article summarizes well Olivia's underrated impact on the music scene:

[quote]While she faded from the pop mainstream, her peers knew when credit was due: Mariah Carey invited her to perform Hopelessly Devoted to You live in Australia in 1998; Dua Lipa’s 2020 single Physical is evidently (shamelessly) indebted to Newton-John’s hit of the same name. “Since I was 10 years old, I have loved and looked up to Olivia Newton-John,” Kylie Minogue tweeted. “And I always will.” And even without those namechecks, Newton-John’s legacy endures: as one of the earliest women in pop to embrace different eras, genres, sounds and even self-presentation, she lives on in the DNA of every female pop star’s self-reinvention.

[quote] And yet again I ask - why are some Americans so obsessed with race?

Not obsessed, curious.

Some of us aren't scared of facts.

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So many absent / fake-death husbands! Such friendship with Karen Carpenter!

For those on the previous thread interested in what a state funeral might comprise in Australia: her body is to be buried in the US, so this is being known as a memorial service and there won't be a coffin or, probably anything in the streets (that will be at next year's Mardi Gras, where both the marchers and the crowd will be singing ONJ songs till your ears bleed).

If it takes after other recent state funerals, the main thing is that it will be televised nationally and no doubt the stream will be available internationally. I assume it will be in Melbourne. If the family wants a church service it will happen in one of Melbourne's largest and most central ones. If not, it will happen in a large enough venue to accommodate an audience of hundreds, plus the requisite TV cameras.

The public will be allowed in if there is space after the invited guests, and they will likely have a screen outside the church/venue for the overflow. There will be music, possibly video clips of her, and many eulogies and readings, some by family, some by celebrities, some by the people she has worked with from her cancer foundation. (Her Wellness and Research Centre is an imposing building in Melbourne.) The Premier and/or the Prime Minister will probably speak briefly. Some overseas celebrities and friends will attend and others will likely appear by Zoom.

Link attached to show her cancer research and care centre. If you go to its home page there's a lovely tribute to her.

Have You Never Been Mellow?

Damn it, when will I stop crying?

MARY!

Also happened in Sydney.

Question: in his tribute, Travolta says something like "we'll be together again." Do scientologists believe in an afterlife?

Now the Internet is just pushing things to me to make me cry.

Warning: the song at the end of that clip, where Olivia and Andy sing together, will tear you to shreds. Bring tissues.

For those who want to see how Matt looks nowadays...

Thank you all for posting your thoughts on Olivia. I, too, feel like I’m mourning a good friend.

I was in 7th grade when “I Honestly Love You” was a big hit on the radio. A friend had given me the album (If You Love Me) that year. I’ve been a fan ever since. I bought all of her albums, watched every appearance on tv and went to every movie she was in. But what I really wanted to do was to see her live. I lived in Upstate NY at the time and the closest venue was SPAC (in Saratoga).

Finally, she came the to SPAC in the summer of 1982. And where was I? Doing a goddam summer internship at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone Park. I was PISSED!!

I didn’t get to see her until years later. Once in Boston and again in Lowell(!), MA. The thing that amazed me seeing her live was to see how many gay men were in the audience. All my friends used to make fun of me for being such a huge fan, but at the concerts, I was one among many. Even my boyfriend (husband now) who I had to drag along with me said, “Who knew?”

I've posted it before, but even though "Sam" is my favorite song, this holds a special place in my heart for where my life was as I listened to it years ago:

Olivia continues to dominate the daily iTunes charts, with Hopelessly Devoted To You at #1, Magic at #2, You're the One That I Want at #4, Let Me Be There at #6, Physical at #8, Have You Never Been Mellow at #9, and I Honestly Love You at #10.

Still kvelling!

This was just posted on the Carson Show's account. Featuring performances of If You Love, Let Me Know and I Honestly Love You.

I hope younger generations have come to realize how awesome this lady was. RIP Olivia.

ONJ in her heyday 1978

I wasn't into her music but she seemed sweet.

^ I'm not American so I don't understand the habit of applauding a performer during the first verse of a song as well as after it.

R30- If you are referencing my post- This video is a live performance in Amsterdam, Netherlands 1978- NOT the United States.

From John Farrar:

[quote]Pat and I have no words to describe how we feel at the loss of our dear friend Olivia. She has been a major part of our lives for so many years. Olivia we love you and always will.

Richard Wilkins loses it (his emotions, that is).

[quote] Richard Wilkins spawned a brainless freak.

Much worse than the brainless freak spawned by Livvy and Matt Lattanzi.

Final photo.

John Travolta is getting together a Hollywood group to fly to the state funeral in Australia. He approached Eric Roberts who declined. Eric had forgotten that Olivia was in It's My Party in which he had the starring role. He reported he could not go to Australia because Greta Scacchi would be waiting at the airport for him with a pitchfork.

Latest on the state funeral is "it may more closely resemble a memorial concert". IDK how reliable that is. Not surprised Travolta is coming to it, though. He's been to Australia many times, having first been sent by ONJ.

Deadline reports:

^ The much-hated State Premier of Victoria in Australia announced the "special send-off" will be orchestrated by the same people who did the "special send-off" to that cricketer named Shane Warne.

It will be very schmaltzy with "peak-emotion points" throughout the 90 minute spectacle in which the audience will be expected to cry.

(I know it will get tawdry if that obese geriatric numbskull named Johnny Farnham is allowed to take the microphone.)

Elton John performed at the Shane Warne memorial so wonder if he will do the same for Olivia?

Kylie Minogue also.

Farnham and Olivia were great friends, so yeah, he probably will be there.

Susan George published a lengthy text about her long friendship with Olivia.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with her daughter? Why does everyone say she is troubled? I saw the interview upthread and she seems lovely, just overdid it with the plastic surgery.

Thx r32 I’ve been watching out for his response

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Olivia Newton-John on "Boomeride" (1965)

R47 Olivia always looked like Olivia. Even when she was a teen.

Molly Meldrum has shared an emotional tribute to Olivia Newton-John, revealing his pain over losing a friend he considered “family”.

“Tonight, the stars will shine a little brighter and I am heartbroken!” the 79-year-old wrote.

Do we think that ONJ's cancer was caused by fertility treatments? In that interview, she says she tried to have more after Chloe but wasn't able to carry them to term. That is what ended up killing Kelly Preston, too.

She’s got cancer genes in her family. Her father and sister died from it

Just saw on Amazon you can pre-order a Deluxe Edition 2 CD of If Not For you that gets released September 9th.

R52 It will have 2 previously unreleased tracks!

R19...I think a better question is: Does Travolta really believe in scientology? Compare to other high profile members of the cult, his commitment seems rather vague.

Olivia sings at the Olympic Games in Sydney

Her first cousin Max Born starred in "Fellini Satyricon," and her third cousin was Ben Elton.

In all the writeups I haven't seen it mentioned she won a Hayley Mills lookalike contest.

Olivia makes chart appearances Down Under.

[quote]In all the writeups I haven't seen it mentioned she won a Hayley Mills lookalike contest.

And eventually a Juliet Mills marry-alike contest?

I do weekly shopping on Sunday and as I'm driving the local station plays old American Top 40 episodes.

For this week in 1980 (August 16) the number one song was.....Magic.

*sobs!*

How Olivia made it in the US when others didn't.

I had never read anything about her family before her death.

Images of Olivia's properties.

An article about Olivia's songwriting.

Final wish.

Olivia and Moe.

I was expecting Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and I am bitterly disappointed.

New TV special Olivia - A Magical Life. will share an abundance of intimate memories from the late star’s life and feature a never-before-seen interview where the music icon shares details of her final resting place in Australia, prior to her tragic death.

The programme will be a star-studded event featuring appearances from Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, music veteran Cliff Richard and Australian pop singer Delta Goodrem.

Newton-John’s co-star Didi Conn, who played Frenchie in Grease, will also make an appearance for the special.

Songbird Dani Im will also be lending her vocals for the special, alongside Wendy Mathews, Katie Noonan and Samantha Jade, who will perform Newton-John’s hit classic I Honestly Love You.

When r68?? What channel????

Article about special.

Everyone saw this coming.

I wonder what's happening with the State Funeral/Memorial. Pretty sure this is the longest it's taken to get one on. Nothing about it on Oz TV yet.

I assume either a lot of international guests want to take part in person, or there's a family issue.

Plans for Newton-John’s state memorial are still underway with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews promising that the day will be “celebrating her life … her music and film and all the other amazing contributions that she made”.

Remember Olivia in the October annual Walk for Wellness.

But Chloe will not be attending.

Olivia's hidden talent - photographer!

On Monday, September 26 it would be her 74th birthday. Does anyone know when they are having her state funeral in Australia, or any memorial service in America ? I'm sure she has been cremated or buried by now - we're nearly going on two months. Nothing has been said about her funeral since a few days after - no updates at all.

She was sadly upstaged by the Queen.

R78. Seems I'm always second best but you learn along the way that's the price you have to pay...

Wow r62, I had no idea she was Jewish!

[quote]She was sadly upstaged by the Queen.

Except ONJ died over a month before the Queen. There’s no reason a funeral should have taken this long to plan.

An article dated October 13 reports the state funeral is to be in early December with the ceremony is to be held at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens - one of the late actress' favourite places.