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[edit] Improvement drive

A related topic, Pulp Fiction, is currently nominated on WP:IDRIVE. Vote for this article.--Fenice 06:51, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Verified family

For the record members of the Travolta family include Margaret Travolta, John Travolta, Ellen Travolta, Joey Travolta, Rikki Lee Travolta; Jack Bannon, Rachel Travolta, Nicole Travolta, Michael Salvatore Travolta, Hellen (Burke) Travolta, Kelly Preston, Salvator Travolta, Molly Allen Ritter, Jonathan Rau, Jet Travolta, Tom Fridley, Sam Travolta, Ella Blue Travolta, Valentino Travolta, and Annie Travolta. This is not an all inclusive list, but all those listed are confirmed. Paramountpr

Please explain how you have confirmed the Rikki Lee Travolta allegation. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Via direct work for and with the family, the verified members include:Margaret Travolta (Maggie), John Travolta, Ellen Travolta, Joey Travolta, Rikki Lee Travolta; Jack Bannon, Rachel Travolta, Nicole Travolta, Michael Salvatore Travolta, Hellen (Burke) Travolta, Kelly Preston, Salvator Travolta, Molly Allen Ritter, Jonathan Rau, Jet Travolta, Tom Fridley, Sam Travolta, Ella Blue Travolta, Valentino Travolta, and Annie Travolta (Ann). This is not an all inclusive list, but all those listed are confirmed. If confirmation is needed on a person not listed, please contact and assistance will be offered. Paramountpr 14:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


Rikki Lee Travolta, Jonathan Rau, and Tom Fridley are nephews of John Travolta. Well known fact. Molly Allen, Rachel Travolta, and Nicole Travolta are nieces. DonnaMo 13:48, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Rikki Lee Travolta is John Travolta's nephew.Roadracer123 14:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When was 'Moment By Moment' filmed?

Just curious about Travoltas long hair in this film, and his short hair in SNF and Grease. I mean to have read he went almost directly from SNF to the filming of Grease? Wasn't 'Moment...' done AFTER 'Grease'? Does anyone know dates/months of filming of all these three films?



[edit] John Travolta is not gay

Never heard that one.

I never heard he wasn't gay too.


ridiculous rumor. No basis as article documents. DonnaMo 13:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Since when was the Church of Scientology a "cult"?207.157.121.50 09:17, 25 October 2005 (UTC)mightyafrowhitey

cult <- That's by us. "Far outside..." &c. sorta defines the group, particular with regards to Medicinal psychiatry. Jdos2 17:13, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Travolta doesn't die in Battlefield Earth, he's imprisoned in Fort Knox.

Perhaps a note in his page should mention it? It has been debated among fans. There is a picture of him kissing another guy on the lips. Dark Spidey 05:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Football team

"He celebrated with the Australian national football team in their dressing room following their qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup"

??

Why is this included in the article? and secondly why was he celebrating with the Australian team in the first place? Does he have some sort of connection to Australia?

In any case this sentence should be removed. Jaw101ie 20:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

John Travolta celebrated with the Australian team because he has an endorsement contract with Quantas Airlines, based out of Australia, and as a part of that promotion he served as Captain in special promotional flights of the Australian team. Paramountpr 14:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sicilian

Does anyone have a reliable source that his father was of Sicilain origin? And a source that describes John Travolta as a Sicilian-American (if anyone wanted to add that cat) Mad Jack 07:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[1], [2]. Arniep 18:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Eh, the first source is not reliable. It's "some guy's website", essentially, and all it says is that Travolta's parents were Irish and Italian. The second source, which is reliable, just says, on his father, "He may be from the commune of Godrano, in the province of Palermo, in Sicily". Although we could say, in the article, that his father "May" have been from Sicily, citing that source, we certainly shouldn't put him in a Sicilian-American category. Mad Jack 19:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Uhh....a movie poster, or VHS or DVD cover would usually be necessary in articles about the film. The most necessary image would be a movie screenshot, about who the actor played. --PJ Pete

[edit] Good Article

This is a really good, well-written article! loulou 18:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Travolta IS gay

John Travolta is Gay. [3] [4] It has long been known in Hollywood that his marriage is a sham. Why does a celebrity have to announce the facts themselves before they are posted here? Stop treating this as vandalism. 69.195.18.10 07:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Neither the image or your sources prove or state that he is gay, just because he was photographed kissing a man is not proof that he is gay. --Credema 07:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
John Travolta will never come out of the closet due to his association with Scientology. That doesn't change the fact that he likes men. That does not look like a straight kiss to me. 69.195.18.10 07:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
What I was trying to say is that even if you think it's not a straight kiss it does not prove that he is gay. The sources you are using, although credible, do not state that he is gay. --Credema 07:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, agreed. For now we should limit it to allegations of homosexuality. I'm sure this simmering pot will come to a boil soon enough. Jasonid 08:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
What?! Do you usually kiss your same-sex friends like that?! What is your proof for being gay? A sex tape? Dev920 (check out this proposal) 23:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
This article, to me seems STRANGELY to be missing the whole chasm of his allegations of being gay. Regardless of whether he is gay or not, the information on who has claimed it should be in the article, otherwise this article just looks like reading the damn scientology website.

But why not a small sub-article mentioning people question his sexuality? The admins on this board treat it like their own personal playground, it always has to be there way...

There is no reason nor proof that John Travolta is gay. Does anyone know who the mystery man is? a friend? a family member? a GAY MAN?! Perhaps this guy went in for the kiss first - to say cheerio maybe- and John didn't want to be rude... Besides Kelly Preston is gorgeous, why hasn't she run off with somebody who'll 'appreciate' her better if her husband's gay? And his kids?

[edit] Controversy

Italian culture my ass! Fenrir2000 10:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mother's name

Travolta, the youngest of the six children in a Roman Catholic family to Salvatore and Helen Tom, was born in Englewood, New Jersey.

Tom?? Is that vandalism? –☆ CieloEstrellado 03:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

It was vandalism. Fixed. ☆ CieloEstrellado 03:21, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] And the award...

...for the unintentionally funny goes to: There has also been widespread speculation that Travolta's son Jett does not have Kawasaki syndrome ... because this illness is primarily found in Japanese children under the age of five.

[edit] Missing sections on alleged homosexuality

Well, i think it's fair that in an encyclopedia article, the whole image of a person be considered, particularly whenever i hear a whisper about Travolta, there's thousands of gay stories that have been printed in the press, and even corroborated by some people.. yet this article seems oddly remiss. Even if he isn't gay, it's fair point to say that people should know that at least some other people have accused him of being gay, and even admitted to having sex with him. Eerily missing that. James S 12:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Family" section

The section on "Family" needs a complete rewrite. It doesn't mention, for example, when Travolta married Kelly Preston or the fact that they have a daughter, much less her name. Rather, it's all about allegations that Travolta and Preston's son is autistic, which are ultimately sourced to a Hollywood gossip blog, and a major newspaper's gossip column which uses as its only source the same blog entry (plus a summary of Usenet posts). The section also says, In the words of a director of one advocacy video, Joey's support of organizations like Cure Autism Now keeps him up at night, such is his fear of authorities breaking down his door and taking him away to be "cured". This belongs, if anywhere, in a "Criticism" section of the Joey Travolta article, but as it is unsourced criticism of a living person, it probably does not belong anywhere in Wikipedia. --Metropolitan90 02:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. This family section needs to be deleted for the most part, I took a look at 'Hollywood Interrupted' & Clambake (xenu.net) and one's a gossip blog, the other an anti-Scientology message board. Neither one is WP:RS. My attempts to edit this mess have met with reverts and someone has put semi-protected on the article, as if the real problem was n00bs vandalizing it! I am a n00b, but no vandal. Suggest that someone who agrees with me correct the real problem: poorly sourced derogatory info.

S. M. Sullivan 01:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)S. M. Sullivan

Mark Ebner is an award winning investigative journalist. Just because he writes about Hollywood doesn't make his website "gossip". His article is credible; the "Kawasaki syndrome through carpet cleaning" that Travolta is telling isn't. I am therefore restoring it. --Tilman 07:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

You're only putting it in there because it makes them look bad, and you are searching for any tiny little thing to make them look bad and put it in because they are Scientologists, that's the real reason, let's not kid ourselves here. And she didn't say he got the syndrome through carpet cleaning, she said he had it, when he was at the hospital being treated or checked out for it, he was crawling around on the carpet and breathing in the fumes, how did you misread that? And you're no doctor. 24.69.67.173 01:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, "S. M. Sullivan", you are a vandal. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

If I had put a pointless link to derogatory info into someone's bio, then I would be a vandal. Vandals do that. Hypocrites do it, too. Since I've come here, I've seen a link to Glen Stollery's 'Tom Cruise is Nuts' website get removed from the Tom Cruise bio. Who put it there? Not me. It was removed by Cyberanth, by the way. If you're so concerned about vandalism I could also point out the links to Tilman's anti-Scientology site that somehow found their way into the bios of living persons who happened to be Scientologists. Putting such links into these bios was vandalism. You and your friends have some 'splaining to do. -- S. M. Sullivan 02:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)S. M. Sullivan

Please go read Wikipedia:Vandalism; it's pretty clear from your incorrect declarations about "this would be vandalism", "that would be vandalism" that you don't know what the Wikipedian definition of vandalism excludes. Now, changing a URL so that it still claims to be pointing to an award-winning magazine article but actually now points to a different document altogether, especially while falsely describing your action as "correcting" the link, now that's vandalism. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Note that he still hasn't 'splained that one :-) --Tilman 07:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scientology series tag

I've been editing Barbara Schwarz and noticed that Mr. Travolta appears in the {ScientologySeries} info box. Since the box wasn't in this article I added it under the Other section where it mentions his relationship with the CoS. The picture of the kiss on the stairs should probably be deleted by somebody who edits this article regularly. I don't plan to edit any further but it might be a good idea to move the CoS info to his personal life section, if he were a Christian/Muslim/Jewish/Hindu/etc. would his affiliation with them be listed under "Other"? Anynobody 07:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Between staying alive and pulp fiction (11 year gap) can we really say he was part of 'major' films? okay, the 'look who's talking' franchise was reasonable successful, but there were 5 years between staying alive and look who's talking.... hardly prolific. Most of the films he was involved with in this period were turkeys.

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