“Grease” co-stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunited on Wednesday for the first time in years at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ screening celebrating the 40th anniversary of the iconic film. The two, who played high school couple Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, were joined by fellow cast members Didi Conn (Frenchie) and Barry Pearl (Doody), as well as director Randal Kleiser. At the event, the 64-year-old Travolta said Newton-John was his favorite thing about doing “Grease.” “If you were a young man in the ’70s, and I’m sure many of you were, out there, if you remember that album cover of Olivia with that blue shirt on, with those big blue eyes staring right at you, every boy’s, every man’s dream was, ‘Oh, I’d love for that girl to be my girlfriend,'” Travolta told the audience. “So when I had the privilege to have input on the casting, I said, ‘There is no other person in the universe other than Olivia Newton-John to play Sandy. You must cast her.’ So I held tight, didn’t I, and I got my way.” Aretha Franklin sang a beautiful rendition of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama. (Published 3 hours ago) Newton-John, 69, had her doubts about accepting the role. “I really wasn’t sure I wanted to do the movie because I’d made a movie before in England, which was a musical, and it didn’t work, so I was very frightened about doing… [Read full story]
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