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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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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

Well, score another one for South Park.

Now all we need is for R. Kelly to come out of the closet. ;P


61 posted on 08/31/2006 7:48:16 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Conservatives teach you how to fish. Socialists give you the fish by stealing it from the fisherman.)
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To: wjersey; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Looks like Travolta's got Liberace for a body thetan.


62 posted on 08/31/2006 8:08:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Visit www.greenhelmetguy.com! We'll put a corpse on the rubble for you.)
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To: Wristpin

63 posted on 08/31/2006 8:13:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Visit www.greenhelmetguy.com! We'll put a corpse on the rubble for you.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wrong graphic?


64 posted on 08/31/2006 8:15:39 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Slings and Arrows

Heeey...

Kitties, although prone to peeing in closets, do NOT come out of them. THIS GREATLY OFFENDS ME! }:O


65 posted on 08/31/2006 8:16:45 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Conservatives teach you how to fish. Socialists give you the fish by stealing it from the fisherman.)
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To: pcottraux; Ultra Sonic 007
Wrong graphic?

Or risque pun. ;^)

66 posted on 08/31/2006 8:21:48 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Visit www.greenhelmetguy.com! We'll put a corpse on the rubble for you.)
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To: wjersey

Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww....


67 posted on 08/31/2006 8:22:24 PM PDT by RockinRight (She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz; mhking
next up for John's career, a synthetic sequel to two movies, titled "Brokeback Arrow"
68 posted on 08/31/2006 9:47:26 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: wjersey

woof. talk about greased lightening!


69 posted on 08/31/2006 10:24:45 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: holymoly

Everyone knows that Michael Huffington was 100% straight when he married Ariana. After a few years married to her...well better men than him would switch teams.


70 posted on 08/31/2006 10:29:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: wjersey
I'm a massage therapist in Phoenix, and that is the rumor, that he was trying to get friendly with some of the male therapist at the Phoenician
71 posted on 08/31/2006 11:27:08 PM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: Rome2000
Travolta had slept in the same bedroom we were using the weekend before with his boyfriend, this was back in '86.

I hope they changed the sheets between guests.

72 posted on 08/31/2006 11:54:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: All

73 posted on 09/01/2006 12:05:03 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: All

74 posted on 09/01/2006 12:18:09 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: wjersey
“Travolta is a happily married man, which proves he isn’t gay.”

Uh huh, and a certain former New Jersey governor was also "happily married."

75 posted on 09/01/2006 12:18:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Toby06
You're the one who doinked him, you tell me? ..lol!!
76 posted on 09/01/2006 12:22:53 AM PDT by Pro-Bush ("A nation without borders is not a nation." President Reagan)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Thats what I said.


77 posted on 09/01/2006 10:09:42 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: wjersey; Slings and Arrows

Is this some Scientology thing? :P


78 posted on 09/01/2006 3:27:33 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: NRA2BFree

She knew before she married him.


79 posted on 09/01/2006 3:58:21 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: ValerieUSA

Too bad, someone mentioned Tom Cruise on this thread. Huge lawsuit to follow.

L. Ron Hubbard -- Gosh, I'm sure he wasn't gay.


80 posted on 09/02/2006 1:25:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 2, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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