Mum wouldn’t be around as much during the days, either, as she had to support us on her own for the first time in her life. I haven’t been in many films, but to be in ‘Grease’ and ‘Xanadu’ — both musicals that people have really enjoyed — and to dance with John Travolta and Gene Kelly in one lifetime? I’d go to sleep smelling him with my nose pressed to my pajama sleeve, which was sadly an experience I wouldn’t have for long. I’m a housewife and I’m loving that,” she enthused in a phone interview from her home outside Los Angeles. I was also impressed by how much time she spent telling us about the roles that so many others played into her successes.

she points out when asked whether it’s true that she almost turned down the Sandy role because she thought that at 29 she was too old to play a high-school student. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. It wasn’t long before we were in a new country and unpacking boxes at our fantastic new home on campus, a beautiful stone mansion with endless bedrooms and our own housekeeper.

For more than five decades, Olivia Newton-John has been one of our most successful and adored entertainers. To the accusation that the movie was telling girls to “sex it up to get their man,” she replies in her book: “It was about choice. And let me just say that reading of Olivia’s early European tours, as well as the story of her move to America and what happened there, especially in the early days were powerful testaments of the grit and determination that even the super-talented must go through to make it in this very hard business.

Dad had written a letter to the dean, explaining how he wanted to introduce his family to the amazing country of Australia—and he got the job. Dad was six foot three, fair-haired, with movie-star good looks and that beautiful aristocratic voice.I sat there knowing that this was going to be another challenging journey, but I would never stop believing that I would be okay. We all know that Olivia is a wordsmith with her songs and that has carried through to her biography. As I read Olivia’s heartfelt telling of how important these people were in her life, I realized that it was saying something about her character. In 1978, her co-starring role with John Travolta in Grease catapulted Olivia into super-stardom and to date it remains the most successful movie musical of all time. However, generally there is a superficial simplicity to her prose that just doesn't elevate her story above the level of an expanded article in a mass market magazine.

Rona had met a talented young singer/entertainer named Ian Turpie and wanted to introduce him to me even though I was only fifteen. My mom got me every album for Xmas or Bday gifts and I sang my heart out with my Mr Microphone (remember those? I adored my father and think more about him now than ever before, especially when I hear classical music, which was always playing loudly in our house.She talks less about singing and more about caring for herself, her family and her mini-horses, dog and cat. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. This marked the end of any hope of even weekly or monthly visits, as they were too expensive on his academic salary. John Travolta gets a giant Valentine here but there is nothing that will pull back the very hidden curtain in his life.

I asked Ian if he could accompany me on guitar (he was a wonderful guitar player) for one of my favorite songs, “Summertime. I realized that this woman, like Jane, knew only how to love her friends fully, and without reservation. He even worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park during WWII, cracking the German codes, and later helped bring Nazi deputy führer Rudolf Hess into custody.Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist credited with being the father of the atomic bomb, but my grandfather refused to collaborate with him on anything that was destructive or would hurt people. For more than five decades Olivia Newton-John has been one of our most successful and adored entertainers.