In person, Travolta, who has specialized in playing kids from the wrong side of the tracks, is more like the boy next door. He sprawls on his living room rug, half under the Christmas tree, eagerly expounding on acting and jumping up to demonstrate a disco dance step.
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek – October 31, 1977 It’s not easy to face up to the ripe old age of 35 in the world of the rock star. For those who…
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Richard Pryor is in movies, on records and on television. Nonetheless, the question remains: can the hottest black comic around remain true to his angry self and make it as a superstar in mostly white America?
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek – September 12, 1977 By Maureen Orth with Paul Brinkley-Rogers in Los Angeles When Jean-Luc Ponty was 3 and growing up in the small Normandy town of…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, August 22, 1977 Maureen Orth with Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles Twice a year – at the beginning of summer and just before Christmas – Hollywood goes…
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It was the legend of Elvis that mattered to the fans who came to Memphis to say
goodbye.