Posted on 03/12/2018 7:49:42 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The A-list actress' recent stumbles with 'Red Sparrow,' 'mother!' and 'Passengers' are no reason to gloat. The death of the movie star is bad news for everyone in Hollywood.
In 1993, John Travolta’s career was teetering on the brink. The actor, who’d become a superstar with Saturday Night Fever and then added to his luster with Grease, had all but ceased to matter as a cultural force. True, he could still deliver the occasional hit, such as Look Who’s Talking, but at the domestic and foreign box office he was a has-been, someone largely remembered for a white sharkskin suit and a few fabulous dance moves.
Hollywood had effectively written him off, perhaps unconvinced he was all that big a star to begin with. But one director, who was just beginning to make his name, had faith, and when he came to make his second feature, he chose Travolta for the most important role. That director, of course, was Quentin Tarantino; the feature was 1994’s Pulp Fiction; and with it, Travolta was back on top, raking in $20 million per movie and sealing his place in the pantheon.
It isn’t easy being a star, as Jennifer Lawrence must have thought when Red Sparrow opened to a humble $16.9 million first weekend earlier this month. You’re on a perpetual roller-coaster ride, knowing each time you’re up, the law of gravity says you’re going to crash back down. Stars live in constant fear that everything they have, they’ll soon lose — the perks, the privileges, the private planes. Directors secretly resent their clout, executives question their monetary value and pundits (like me) wonder whether many deserve to be called stars at all.
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Passengers wasn’t bad but you could have plugged any attractive female into the role. And many not so attractive that would have done a better acting job. Mother sucked though.
Writers of great movies should be considered the real stars.
So these women should just take the money and run. If the world was more just, most of these chicks would be working as a pizza waitress.
>>The A-list actress’ recent stumbles with ‘Red Sparrow,’ ‘mother!’ and ‘Passengers’ are no reason to gloat. The death of the movie star is bad news for everyone in Hollywood.
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Part 1 is 100% false. Part 2 is 100% true but refer to Part 1.
This is a really poorly written article.
Travolta was awesome in Swordfish.
And Pulp Fiction.
Don’t know why this author dissed Travolta so hard.
Saw the preview for Red Sparrow. It looked totally ridiculous. Sometimes it’s not the actress has gone bad it’s that she’s in a crappy vehicle.
Jennifer Lawrence, dropped out of school at 14, yet knows everything. Personally, I have no use for any movie she is in past, present, future.
Agreed.
Ryan Gosling is pretty good. I like Vince Vaughn because he’s pro-gun and isn’t afraid to say it and boy did his career drop after that. Morton Downey Jr has some good acting chops.
Anybody can open a good movie. The stinker retreads, of which Red Sparrow is certainly one, not so much.
Travolta is a good actor, although he was miscast in Life on the Line. Couldn't nail the accent.
I think she was just saying that Travolta’s career was on skid row before Pulp Fiction revived it. Swordfish was after that, and Get Shorty as well.
Like many Hollywood stars, I just find her expressions and performances to be wooden.
I like morton downey jr too but i’m pretty sure he’s dead. I really liked him in gone with the wind.
I think you meant Robert Downey Jr.
And she wants to take time off to fix our democracy. Her lack of education reveals that she thinks we are a democracy, and not the constitutional republic this country is. And she thinks that Hollywood idiots such as herself have great clout to fix things. We don’t want America fixed to the satisfaction of Hollywood idiots. So that quest of hers will fail.
Is Travolta still around? I haven’t heard of any movies he’s made recently. His pulp fiction rebound was over 20 years ago.
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