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John Travolta caught kissing another man
Canada.com ^ | 8/31/2006 | Staff

Posted on 08/31/2006 5:13:38 PM PDT by wjersey

Whispers about John Travolta’s sexuality that have blown through Hollywood for years are getting louder now that the actor was caught kissing another man here in Canada.

In photographs published in the newest issue of the National Enquirer, Travolta is seen planting a kiss on the lips of an unidentified man on the steps of his private plane at an airport in Hamilton, Ontario.

Travolta, 52, has been flying his Boeing 707 in and out of Hamilton as production gets underway in Toronto on the remake of Hairspray, in which he plays Edna Turnblad.

The tabloid noted that Travolta, whose left arm is on the man's back, got “up on one toe while puckering up with his pal.”

While the kiss could be nothing but a friendly peck (Travolta is, after all, half Italian) the pictures are fueling longtime speculation about the star’s sexual orientation.

Travolta waited until he was 37 to get married and become a father. Shortly after the Enquirer published claims by porn star Paul Barresi – who alleged he had a two-year affair with the actor – Travolta married actress and fellow Church of Scientology follower Kelly Preston. The couple has two children: Jett, 14, and Ella Bleu, 6.

Barresi, who reportedly received $100,000 (U.S.) from the tabloid, later retracted his story after discussions with Travolta’s lawyer.

“I was having a nervous breakdown,” Barresi told Jim D’Entremont of The Guide, a gay publication. “I just wanted it to be over. But when the dust settled, I regretted the retraction a lot more than I regretted that initial call to the Enquirer.”

The allegations have not been limited to tabloids. In a 1991 cover story in Time entitled “Scientology: A Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” the magazine reported that, according to former Scientology security head Richard Aznaran, Church leader David Miscavige repeatedly joked about Travolta’s alleged “promiscuous homosexual behavior.”

In 1998, Travolta was named in a lawsuit from a gay man who claimed the Church of Scientology promised to “cure” him of his homosexuality and cited Travolta as a success story.

Michael Pattinson alleged he “reasonably relied upon” Travolta’s marriage to Preston as proof that “Scientology processing and courses would 'handle' my own homosexuality.”

Responding to the lawsuit, Travolta’s lawyer Jay Lavely told the New York Daily News: “Travolta is a happily married man, which proves he isn’t gay.”

Only five years ago, a business executive alleged in Globe that Travolta made a pass at him in the sauna of Spectrum Club, a fitness gym in Valencia, California. (Travolta made several visits to the club while filming Swordfish nearby, it was independent confirmed.) Mark claimed he rebuffed the actor’s alleged advances because he was chubby and “really hairy on his back, upper arms and chest.”

Travolta is one of six children born to Salvatore and Helen Travolta in New Jersey. Showing an interest in musical theatre at an early age, Travolta was enrolled in a New York drama school. By the time he was 16, he was starring in a production of Bye Bye Birdie. Two years later, Travolta had a role in Grease on Broadway. This was followed by a part opposite the Andrew Sisters in Over Here on Broadway.

Travolta moved to Hollywood and landed a few minor roles in film and TV before he was asked, at 21, to play teenager Vinnie Barbarino on the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. The series lasted four seasons and made Travolta a star.

His movie career took off with leads in Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Urban Cowboy. In 1978’s Moment by Moment, Travolta played a young man who falls in love with an older woman, played by Lily Tomlin – who has since come out as a lesbian.

For his role in Hairspray, Travolta has to dress as a woman. His character's husband is played by Christopher Walken. The film, which is shooting in Toronto through December, is due for release next summer.


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; johnedwards; manlove; outofthecloset; slownewsday; travolta; whocares
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1 posted on 08/31/2006 5:13:40 PM PDT by wjersey
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OOO OOO OOOO .. Mister Kotter! Mister Kotter!!!


2 posted on 08/31/2006 5:14:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: wjersey

Well as far as pictures go, that one may not be worth 1,000 words, but it certainly tells a story.


3 posted on 08/31/2006 5:15:25 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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Well as far as pictures go, that one may not be worth 1,000 words, but it certainly tells a story.

It also is a lunch-tosser.

4 posted on 08/31/2006 5:16:08 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)
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5 posted on 08/31/2006 5:17:35 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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6 posted on 08/31/2006 5:18:17 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: wjersey

Watch him in Grease and you'd have been convinced that he was a stool miner 25 years ago.


7 posted on 08/31/2006 5:19:06 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (We'll stay out of your bedrooms, if you stay out of our children's classrooms.)
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To: ChadGore
Boy, is that guy ever in the closet.
8 posted on 08/31/2006 5:22:27 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: wjersey

The Hollywood gossip is that he likes to take young guys up in his jet, fly it out over the ocean, set the autopilot to make circles, and then...


9 posted on 08/31/2006 5:22:34 PM PDT by Heyworth
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So, who's the friend, anyway?


10 posted on 08/31/2006 5:24:33 PM PDT by lainie (En ciertos oasis el desierto es sólo un espejismo)
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Well, I guess this explains the question I had when I saw this on FR last night. No doubt now huh?


11 posted on 08/31/2006 5:25:54 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: wjersey
Travolta: You know what they call a Quarter Pounder in Paris?

Jackson: No.

Travolta: Mac Royale BoyPal.

12 posted on 08/31/2006 5:27:42 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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When Saturday Night Fever can out, I thought he was gay.


13 posted on 08/31/2006 5:32:12 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: wjersey
Well, Travolta is getting the best of both worlds so to speak ... he was balling Olivia Newton-John at one point.
Back in the days when she was really hot ...
15 posted on 08/31/2006 5:38:54 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: wjersey

Another gaydar pinger was Travolta living with a woman 20 years older than him. Diana Hyland. Was when he was in his early 20s.


16 posted on 08/31/2006 5:40:22 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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John Travolta caught kissing another man

The guy's name wouldn't happen to rhyme with "Tom Bruise," would it?

17 posted on 08/31/2006 5:51:22 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Weird Scientology.)
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This is in flagrant breach of Rule 1!!!!!


18 posted on 08/31/2006 6:04:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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When Saturday Night Fever can out, I thought he was gay.

Freudian slip?

19 posted on 08/31/2006 6:06:00 PM PDT by Toby06
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Yes


20 posted on 08/31/2006 6:06:47 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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