John Travolta
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John Travolta (b. 1954) is an actor who began on Broadway, gained fame as Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter, and became a movie star in Saturday Night Fever. Comfortable in musicals like Grease (with Olivia Newton-John) or Hairspray (with Michelle Pfeiffer), dramas like Pulp Fiction (with Quentin Tarantino), or comedies such as Look Who's Talking (with the voice of Bruce Willis), Travolta has become one of Hollywood's biggest A-list stars.
Travolta contributed a "Lobster with Three Sauces" recipe for Miss Piggy's 1996 cookbook, In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy.
References
- Grover spoofs John Travolta's famous Saturday Night Fever pose on the cover of the 1978 LP Sesame Street Fever.
- Kermit dresses as Travolta, with Miss Piggy as Olivia Newton-John, in a spoof in The Miss Piggy Calendar 1982, "Saturday Night Greaser." (The title is a spoof of two popular Travolta films, Grease and Saturday Night Fever.)
- A poster of Travolta can be seen on the wall of a boy's bedroom in episode 503 of The Muppet Show.
- Kermit dresses as Travolta (with three other frogs as Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy) in a spoof poster seen at MuppetVision 3D which spoofs Travolta's 2007 film Wild Hogs.
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