John's first big role was as Vinny Barbarino in the 1970's sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" which starred Gabe Kaplan as a teacher in Brooklyn.
During this time, Travolta starred in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and the 1979 film, Grease. Maybe you've heard of it? Or maybe like me you've watched it too many times? There's just something about a good musical. A-ha, a-ha, a wella wella...
Anyway, after these 2 hit films, Travolta continued working but didn't hit the bigtime until 1989 when he co-starred alongside Kirsty Alley in "Look Who's Talking" and the subsequent films "Look Who's Talking Too" and "Look Who's Talking Now".
The came 1994, when Travolta really hit the big time, starring as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction". I watched this film again last week, and it's still brilliantly awesome!
Then in 1996 he starred alongside Christian Slater in "Broken Arrow", 1997 alongside Nicolas Cage in "Face/Off", and in 2001 he starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry's boobs in "Swordfish", and don't forget his cameo in 2002's "Austin Powers in Goldmember".
In 2004 he played the villain in "The Punisher", based on the Marvel Comic book, and then in 2007 he returned to his musical best in "Hairspray". Great stuff, keep it coming John!
Anyway, onto the autograph. In the early 2000's I wrote to him, and received this nice inscribed photo in the mail. Pretty simple, but still fantastic.
Until next time...
quality work there man.
ReplyDeletekeep 'em coming.