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mercredi 31 juillet 2019

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Olivia Newton-John makes new start as she sells her home


It's the end of an era for Olivia Newton-John, who just sold her holiday home in New South Wales, Australia. The Grease star is literally moving on after nearly 40 years, having bought the property in 1981 and renovated it in 2002. The new owner, who shelled out Australian $5.5million (£3.11million) for the house, will enjoy three bedrooms, an open plan kitchen and a guest suite which has four bedrooms of its own, all set on 187 acres to ensure total privacy.

Read  more at : https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2019073175966/olivia-newton-john-is-moving-on-from-both-her-homes/

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Just spotted in Portland! We’re thrilled to have Amazon John Easterling and Olivia Newton-John (@therealonj) joining us as our 2019 Cannabis Science Conference West plenary speakers! Their talk is entitled ‘Plant Medicine; A Personal Healing Journey’. Join us in Portland, OR this September 4th thru 6th for the world's largest, most technical and fastest growing scientific and medical cannabis event! Have you purchased your tickets to the 2019 CSC West yet?! Visit www.CannabisScienceConference.com to register and learn more! LINK IN BIO #olivianewtonjohn #JohnEasterling #AmazonJohn #cannabisscienceconference #2019CannabisScienceConference #cannabisevents #cannabisscience #cannabis #plantmedicine #portland #portlandoregon #oregon #portlandcannabiscommunity #oregoncannabiscommunity #grease #xanadu #hopelesslydevotedtoyou #cannabiseducation #keynotespeaker #celebrity #cannabiscommunity #medicalcannabis #cannabisculture
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Places of the Heart

Whether she’s on a farm in her homeland, watching whales or eloping in the Amazon, the singer and actress always finds happiness in nature.

Qantas
1 Aug 2019



Olivia Newton-John’s most memorable travel tales



1981 | Australia BYRON BAY

I’d just had success with my song Physical and could afford to buy property in Australia. I fell in love with the Byron hinterland as soon as I saw it. I’d never been there before; I just flew up the coast to get away. In those days it wasn’t that easy to get to. It felt much further away but was so worth it.

Though I’d initially wanted to buy a place near the ocean I ended up with a farm in the hinterland because I wanted enough space to keep animals. There were avocados and custard apples growing. The ocean was on one side and the ranges on the other. Gentle, rolling hills. And lots of birds. There’s nowhere quite like the Australian countryside.

Years later I had the chance to start Gaia Retreat & Spa nearby. My business partner, Gregg Cave, and I walked onto the property and we both just knew it was right. It really spoke to me. It’s still my favourite place in the world.

1991 | United States SAN JUAN ISLANDS

These magnificent islands are off the coast of Washington state; you can see snow-capped mountains in the distance and watch whales swim by.

My daughter, Chloe, and I were on holiday, staying with friends who are in a group of whale watchers. When anyone sees a whale they call their neighbours and everyone hops in their boats to have a look.

On this trip we were lucky to witness the convergence of three pods of killer whales. We were in a Zodiac and turned the engine off, which you’re really not supposed to do. It was so still and quiet and all you could hear was the jet of air coming from their blowholes. There were babies and older whales; it was such an extraordinary moment.

The following year, when I found out I had breast cancer, was the only time we didn’t see any whales. We’d seen them on every visit before that.



2008 | Peru PERUVIAN AMAZON

I married my husband, John [Easterling], at dawn on a mountaintop just outside Cusco in Peru. He often travels to the Amazon for work and had been to this particular spot many times before we met. When he first took me there we realised how we felt about each other, even though we’d only been together for a week.

We eloped a year after that trip. We went into the rainforest to that same beautiful sacred place where we fell in love. I’d heard all the stories of people who meet and know straightaway they’ve found “the one” but I never believed it would happen to me.

That was 11 years ago –

I still can’t believe it! It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. We’ve been back quite often since then for John’s work and to celebrate our anniversary.


IT'S ALWAYS AUSTRALIA FOR ME

LA PHOTO DU JOUR : ONJ médaillée il y a quelques temps !

Photo prise aux USA à Brentwood ( sa nouvelle maison ? )


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Sold: Olivia Newton-John hands over keys to her Ballina getaway of 40 years


Le petit coin de paradis australien d'ONJ près de Byron Bay vient d'être vendu !!
Félicitations à l'acheteur de ce bijou !


Olivia Newton-John has sold her long-held holiday home on the NSW North Coast five months after she listed it for more than $5 million.

The sale ends almost 40 years of ownership for the legendary entertainer since she bought five blocks of land near Ballina in 1981 for $622,000 as a country escape from the pressures of stardom.

At the time Newton-John’s music career was soaring thanks in part to her breakout role as Sandy in the 1978 box office hit Grease and the release of her chart-topping album Physical in 1981.



Read more at : https://www.domain.com.au/news/sold-olivia-newton-john-hands-over-keys-to-her-ballina-getaway-of-40-years-864757/

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INTERVIEW



ONJ a accordé une interview pour l'émission 60 minutes ...
Chloe est aussi interviewée ..





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LA REVUE DE PRESSE DE KAY

Vu dans le gratuit Irlandais The Chronicle ! ONJ et l'expo de ses costumes les plus emblématiques !

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What matters at a Hollywood dinner party is not the meal that’s made but the deal. So Helen Reddy’s soiree last year was one for the books—as in accounting, not cooking. One guest was Allan Carr, who was about to co-produce Grease. He had just signed John Travolta—presciently pre-Saturday Night Fever—as his male star, but was still searching for the leading lady. Names like Ann-Margret, Marie Osmond and Susan Dey were dancing in his head. Then, as fate (and Reddy) would have it, Carr looked across the dinner table into the widest, bluest eyes this side of Melbourne.

It’s 12 months later, and the Versailles Room of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas is in pandemonium. Anglo-Australian Olivia Newton-John is winding up her cabaret act when, suddenly, right there onstage, jiving like some kind of tourist gone ape, is—yipes!—John Travolta! Olivia and J.T. boogey through their No. 1 Grease single, You’re the One that I Want, and then harmonize on the movie’s libidinous Summer Nights. “The audience went wild,” exults Livvy, “and we remembered all the dance steps. It was the kind of show you wish all your friends had seen.”

Well, if they haven’t seen it, they’ve undoubtedly screened it. Olivia had not only plucked Carr’s plummy role but also extracted equal billing with Travolta (to compensate for a fire-sale $125,000 fee). Grease has grossed $58 million in its first month and has so far successfully repelled nibbles from Jaws 2 to become the box office leviathan of the summer. Also, the double-LP sound track of Grease has gone quadruple platinum and is selling at a faster rate than Saturday Night Fever. Now if matchmaker Reddy were smart she’d pair Gov. Jerry Brown with her other best single pal, Olivia, who might well win over any of the conservative Proposition 13 crowd still feeling queasy about Linda Ronstadt.

So much for the old crack that if white bread could sing it would sound like Olivia Newton-John. Grease marks the metamorphosis of Olivia from the ingenue category, both on screen and in life, into a tough-minded, 29-year-old career woman. No less than the man from the New York Times pronounced her performance in Grease as “very funny and utterly charming.” Which is not to say that Liv aims to be this generation’s Gidget. She’ll build on the movie-record parlay from Grease, while the music kingdom has long since been at her 7½-B feet.

In the five years since Newton-John arrived in the States, she’s collected six platinum albums (two double platinum), seven gold singles (I Honestly Love You, Have You Never Been Mellow, etc.), three Grammys and a closet full of lesser tributes. The most contentious, though, was her 1974 Country Music Association Award, which triggered a xenophobic Nashville backlash from those then traditionalists Dolly Parton and Johnny Paycheck. Now, ironically, Parton and Paycheck have pranced over to the pop side of the pasture while Olivia shrewdly went out of her way to cut her Don’t Stop Believing LP in Nashville. Last year Dolly touchingly accepted Olivia’s eighth American Music Award for her new (and absent) buddy. Attests Newton-John: “Country fans are the most loyal of all.” The cashbox in her head is now clicking again, and what Olivia is wary of is TV overexposure. She’s had two successful ABC specials, but is mindful that television didn’t exactly boost the recording careers of names she is too polite to say out loud, like Cher and Tennille. Newton-John may still be white bread, but there’s a new element of fiber that’s emerged with Grease.

“It’s always been in the back of my mind to do films,” says Olivia, but she insisted on a screen test with Travolta and wasn’t bashful about demanding rewrites of the script. “I didn’t want to go into something I couldn’t handle or have something to say about,” she observes. Travolta supported Livvy’s insistence that her goody-goody character be toughened. “I was playing a naive girl, but I didn’t want her to be sickly. I kept trying to give her a little strength. John,” she goes on, “gave me a lot of confidence. We became good friends and spent a lot of time together.” Travolta, a decent man who has a way of coming off stiff in quotes, says, “I admire her as a talent and person.”

Without proof, tongues tattled during production that their friendship caused Olivia to split with her off-again British manager-boyfriend, Lee Kramer, 26. “That had nothing to do with Travolta,” Liv protests. “Lee and I had broken up before I started on the film. We had arguments like every couple. We were both new to this country and he was new to being a manager. He was criticized and I was vulnerable to it.” Kramer, who had already made his own bundle importing cowboy boots to Europe, left the family business to take over Liv’s career. “It was my own insecurity that undid me more than anything anybody said,” admits Lee. “Olivia and I tried to split professionally, and that didn’t work. So we split personally.” That wasn’t the answer either, they found. “Now our relationship is good again,” he insists. “Fine. Terrific.”

Olivia’s own caution about lasting ties—she and Kramer keep separate homes—dates to a lonely childhood scarred by her own parents’ divorce. Born in Cambridge to a university don (her grandfather was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born), she moved to Australia at 5 when her father became a master at the University of Melbourne. Her parents traumatically separated when Liv was 11 (breaking up is the subject of Changes, one of the few songs she’s written). Then Olivia dismayed her scholarly father by dropping out of high school and by 16 was back in London’s music scene and soon engaged to English rocker Bruce Welch of the Shadows. Later, with Kramer in tow (he’d glommed onto her on a Monaco vacation), she made the move to the U.S. at the urging of Reddy, godmother to Hollywood’s Aussie colony. “England remains very dear to both of us,” Lee says now. “But the sun shines here.”

That means specifically on the five-acre, ocean-view ranch in the Malibu hills that Newton-John shares with seven horses, three Great Danes, a bulldog, an Irish setter and two cats. “I was a typical girl who loved horses but couldn’t afford them,” she says. During her last Vegas gig Olivia leased jets back home for daily afternoon rides before returning to perform twice each night. If she hadn’t made it in showbiz, she says she would have been a veterinarian, and, outraged by accounts of Japanese fishermen slaughtering dolphins, she and Reddy recently threatened to cancel their upcoming tours—even though Olivia is the No. 1 singing star in Japan, male or female. “I’m not a vegetarian, and I’ve worn fur coats,” she explains. “But I can’t condone senseless killing.” The Japanese government, as does almost everyone else, finally saw it Olivia’s way. The tour’s back on.

She has a gardener-handyman, but has been unable to find a permanent housekeeper. So Olivia cooks stolid English fare for visitors like her twice-married older sister, Rona, whose boyfriend, Jeff Conaway, played Travolta’s buddy “Kenickie” in Grease. She and Lee give maybe three big parties a year and are regulars on the circuit. If Liv is photographed in a dress she never wears it again—”which gives me quite an extensive wardrobe,” she confesses.

One mark of Newton-John’s new assurance—not to mention ambition—is that she has laid a $10 million suit on MCA to get out of what she considers a dead-end contract. (The label is countersuing for $1 million.) Marriage is only a distant possibility, though Olivia says, “I would like children before I’m 35.” There’s talk about her starring in the Leslie Caron role in Allan Carr’s remake of Lili. “We are not going out to prove that Olivia’s the world’s greatest dramatic actress,” says Kramer. But Newton-John herself notes confidently, “There’s a big upsurge in films that are funny and entertaining and romantic. So my timing is pretty good.”


mardi 30 juillet 2019

FASHION

What Fall Fashion Looked Like the Year You Were Born


1972

Olivia Newton-John's all-white leisure suit brought effortless fall flair as she walked around London. / Le costume décontracté et tout blanc d'Olivia Newton-John a apporté sans effort  une touche d'automne en se promenant dans Londres.

https://www.elle.com/fashion/personal-style/g28537472/fall-fashion-through-the-years/?slide=24

ON THIS DAY


This day in 1978 ! The film soundtrack to Grease featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John went to No.1 on the US album chart. / Le 29 juillet 1978, la bande originale du film GREASE se classait numéro 1 dans le Billboard américain !



L'avenir est tellement morose et incertain qu'il est plus rassurant de célébrer un passé sans doute plus confortable ... et puis on est pas sur qu'ONJ retourne en studio un jour ...


... néanmoins, cette année là .. le monde (re)découvrait Olivia Newton-John ! John Travolta était la méga star ... un peu filante ...


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RETRO CLIPPING



Après plusieurs fausses couches,  avant et après l'arrivée de Chloe, Olivia Newton-John a abandonné l'idée d'avoir un autre enfant !



Un grand merci à Kay

Good things come to those who wait

Tout arrive a qui sait attendre ... pour cette photo grand format qui illustre la version web du independent irlandais !
Photo de Mark Condren


https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/health-features/olivia-newtonjohn-medicinal-cannabis-will-play-huge-part-in-beating-cancer-38349538.html


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Grease: The Director's Notebook Hardcover



Release date : October 22, 2019
by Randal Kleiser (Author)



Et voici un petit aperçu du livre GREASE, THE DIRECTOR'S NOTEBOOK réalisé par Randal Kleiser !
Le livre sort le 22 octobre prochain !






GREASE est le mot. . . Lancée il y a plus de quarante ans, la version cinématographique de Grease est l'une des comédies musicales les plus rentables de tous les temps et une véritable sensation mondiale avec des légions de fans dévoués de génération en génération. Pour la première fois, le réalisateur du film, Randal Kleiser, revient sur ce monument culturel légendaire.


Créé en collaboration avec Paramount Pictures et autorisé par Jim Jacobs et Warren Casey (via Estate), les créateurs de la pièce musicale originale, Grease: Le cahier du réalisateur présente également des images rares et inédites provenant des archives du studio. Vous y trouverez des notes de production de Kleiser, des changements de dialogue, et plus encore. Le cœur du livre est constitué du script du tournage fortement annoté de Kleiser, ainsi que de ses story-boards et ses croquis, y compris des lignes de la pièce qui ont été ajoutées au script du film.

Complet et magnifiquement conçu, Grease: Le cahier du réalisateur comprend également toutes les nouvelles interviews exclusives des principaux membres de la distribution, y compris Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta et Stockard Channing, des pages de script originales, des feuilles d'appel, des images conceptuelles, etc.
C’est un hommage approprié à ce phénomène international vénéré et ce livre est sans doute celui que les adorateurs du film attendaient !


https://www.amazon.com/Grease-Directors-Notebook-Randal-Kleiser/dp/0062856928

Dispo sur Amazon.fr

https://www.amazon.fr/Grease-Hb-Kleiser-Randal/dp/0062856928/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=randal+kleiser&qid=1564394761&s=gateway&sr=8-3


dimanche 28 juillet 2019

This Week in People History: Olivia’s Movie Breakthrough

August 5, 2019




Forty-one years ago Olivia Newton-John strutted her way to big-screen stardom as Sandy in 1978’s summer blockbuster Grease. While the Aussie native, then 29, had already earned six platinum albums, she told People that acting had “always been in the back of my mind.” Today the 70-year-old superstar lives on a ranch with her husband, John Easterling, in Southern California and continues to receive treatment for stage 4 breast cancer, her third bout with the disease since 1992. In November she will auction off Sandy’s iconic Grease costumes to raise money for her namesake cancer research and wellness center in Melbourne.


Thank you Kay !







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LE PETIT INSTA

Ou la réponse d'ONJ quand on lui demande si elle fume un joint en écoutant Bob Marley !




Une publication partagée par Nadine Reid (@nadinereid) le


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WOMAN'S DAY


Petit article dans le dernier WD australien du 5 août !



Un grand merci à Kay !

‘Medicinal cannabis will play huge part in beating cancer’

‘Grease’ superstar Olivia Newton-John is done crying tears over her 27-year on-off fight with cancer, writes Paul Hopkins

Sunday Independent (Ireland)
28 Jul 2019


THERE can be few of us of a certain age who haven’t seen Grease , the hit musical film in which Olivia Newton-John transforms from the delicate and demure Sandy into a seductress in skin-tight spandex and leather. That scene on celluloid when bad-boy Danny Zuko — the youthful greaser John Travolta, with the hypnotic eyes and slicked-back mop — sees her metamorphosis is imprinted, like a first kiss, in our now collective middle-age memory.


“I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying!” sings Travolta in You’re The One That I Want.
And I, and every other, hormonesraging, young male back then, insanely 40 odd years ago, wanted to — oh-so-achingly-wanted-to — get physical with the virgin-turned-vixen that was Olivia Newton-John. Our chills were multiplying to every breathless beat of its sound-track.
“I think John knew the film was going to be huge. He had done stage versions of what was originally a stage musical. But I never realised, never imagined how it would change things for me, that I would be here talking to you about it 41 years later,” says Olivia Newton-John.

It’s a hot and humid day in Kildare, and in Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons , the four-time Grammy award-winning pop diva’s iconic leather jacket from Grease and those pants, as well as outfits from Physical and Xanadu, are on show to the public until Sunday, August 18 — a European exclusive for the Irish company — before being auctioned in November at the celebrated Julien’s in Los Angeles, proceeds, in part, going to Newton-John’s Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne.
To play up the phenomenal success of Grease is not to over-laud the now legendary 1978 movie. It was the highest grossing musical movie of all time, eclipsing even the box office takings for The Sound Of Music, until as recently as 2017 when it was overtaken by Beauty and the Beast but still comes in at a respectable No.2 with Chicago and Les Miserables slotting in at third and fourth.
“I was literally sewn into those figure-hugging trousers, as the zip
— and the pants by the way were from the 1950s where the movie’s set — broke when I was first trying them on,” says Olivia, her petite figure giving lie to her years since that summer of 1978. She is (still) beautiful, sexy, sultry with the unashamed innocence-like quality of that girl-next-door, of Sandy before she turns vixen, the hypnotic seablue come-hither eyes and infectious smile that tempt me away from my train of thought for this one-to-one interview.
That she can look so damn good and gorgeous, wholesome, at an age when other women — and men — have given up the ghost, she puts down to a healthy intake of plantbased foods and an acceptance of taking each day as it comes.

Olivia Newton-John was born in the English city of Cambridge, the granddaughter of Max Born, a Nobel Prize-winning German physicist who’d been a close associate of Albert Einstein. Her father, Brinley Newton-John, was an MI6 officer who worked at the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park with the renowned Alan Turing, and was one of the key people involved in the eventual capture of Rudolph Hess.
Olivia moved to Australia with her family when she was six. “My earliest memory, funnily enough, was of crawling. But my memories of my parents breaking up when I was 11 are still difficult. My relationship with my mother, who lived to be 89, which perhaps augurs well for me,” she laughs, “was always wonderful and it was she who taught me that the best one could do in one’s life was to make people happy... to help where you could.
“Australia then was a long way away, although my mother was always saying I must visit my grandfather. I’d gone travelling in Europe when I was 16 or 17, even went to Ireland and kissed the Blarney Stone [laughter again, the coiffured blonde bob bouncing back] but I was always too busy to do as she said and meet him.
“I regret that. If I could meet my younger self...”

In Australia, Olivia Newton-John started singing on local TV shows when still a pre-teen. After winning a talent competition, she travelled back to England, where she sang on the pub circuit for a couple of years and eventually found another spot singing on TV. In 1970, the producer Don Kirshner, the man behind the 1960s phenomenon The Monkees, recruited her to join Too-morow, a band that was the subject of a sci-fi musical that Kirshner had put together. Too-morrow bellied up, and Newton-John went solo.
A minor 1971 hit with a cover of Bob Dylan’s If Not For You saw her head down the avenue that would carry her through her early career. She started recording middle-of-theroad ballads that did well on both adult-contemporary and Country radio. (The Nashville establishment tentatively embraced her, even though she was an outsider, and her rendition of Banks Of The Ohio was a big hit on Irish radio.)

Olivia landed her first US hits with Let Me Be There in 1973 which peaked at No.6 and the 1974 If You Love Me Let Me Know hitting No.5. She admits that she was canny enough to see that I Honestly Love You would fit right into her repertoire, right down to its sentimental sweetness and the awkwardly worded title.
There’s something cosily comforting about a well-executed sentimental song — a sweeping and overbearing work of such sentimentality that knows where it will hit home. If it hits right, for the listener, the buyer of pop records, there’s a pleasure in giving in to a song that deftly delivers cliches that momentarily seem sincere but nonetheless manipulative.

In 1974, I Honestly Love You — co-written by Jeff Barry, writer of Chapel Of Love, Leader Of The Pack and the Archies’ Sugar, Sugar — was Olivia Newton-John’s first American No.1. With Olivia’s plaintive and wistful intonation it works where it might not have done in any other singer’s delivery.
The soundtrack of Grease was the pivotal point in a career that has seen Olivia’s collective output reach 100 million sales world-wide. The soundtrack would become one of the top bestselling soundtracks, spending 12 weeks at No.1, producing three Top 5 singles for Olivia with the platinum and No.1 hit single You’re The One That I Want with John Travolta, the gold Hopelessly Devoted To You, and the gold duet Summer Nights with Travolta. She earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress In A Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated Hopelessly Devoted To You at the 1979 Academy Awards.
She is still in touch with Travolta, and smiles when she recalls the first time that he and her second husband, John Easterling, a plant scientist, met. (Her first husband, Matt Lattanzi, now 60, was a TV actor. They married in 1984 and divorced in 1995. They had one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, a working actress and singer). “He said to my John, ‘You’ve seen Grease, I trust?’ My husband, we married in 2008, said that no he had not.
“John T said, ‘Where were you on the planet not to have seen Grease? My husband said, ‘I was up the Amazon!’ John worked on and off there for almost 30 years. But John Travolta was having none of that. He had invited us to dinner and picked us up in his private plane and flown us to his house in Florida. He was having another of his planes refurbished and, because my husband is a pilot, too, he thought he’d like to see it. He’d arranged for us to have dessert on the plane, and when we got on board Grease was playing on the screen! So my husband saw it there for the first time.” What did he think? “He loved it, of course,” she smiles. Given that her grandfather had to flee his home in 1933, I ask Olivia, who divides her time between homes in Melbourne and Florida — her global success is largely attributable to America — what does she think of Donald Trump calling out four Congress women in xenophobic terms, saying: “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from where they came.” Her eyes narrow, the lips purse. “I don’t want to make any comment on politics if you don’t mind,” she says adamantly.
“Given,” I say, “that you were presented earlier this year with Australia’s highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia, for service to humanity at large, you must consider yourself somewhat political.” She won’t be drawn. “I keep my politics to myself... it
is not where I reside. I try to reside in a place of positive things and politics right now, with its leaning to populist thinking and the far right. is not positive at the moment.”
And then an addendum: “I was so thrilled by that big honour from Australia and will continue to do the best for the country I love.” And I think I detect a tear. Olivia Newton-John has done her fair share of shedding tears, most recently in May, when “my dear, sweet, gentle, clever, brother Hugh” passed away after many years of decline. “I love him so and miss him terribly,” she says, but goes on to talk of her Irish trip affording her an opportunity to visit her sister who lives in Spain.
However, and defiantly so, she is done crying tears over her 27-year on-off battle with cancer, most recently recurring last year. She was first diagnosed in 1992, on the same weekend that her father Brinley died.
She says the last bout, her shoulder, has been “challenging” at times. “But look,” she laughs and nonchalantly upends the palms of her hands, “I’m here, aren’t I? We nipped it in the bud. Again. I am doing really well... I am here, in Ireland... my first big trip since last September, so it has been a big test for me.

“I’ve had my moments, and my tears and all that, but I have a wonderful husband in John and a daughter in Chloe who support me through those things. There are moments, I’m human. If I allowed myself to go there, I could easily create that big fear. But my husband’s always there, and he’s there to support me. I believe I will win over it. That’s my goal, to see cancer cured in my lifetime,” she says, her radiance and glowing looks defying the fact that almost half her life has been lived in the shadow of illness.
She seems strong and courageous. Her personal journey with cancer have seen Olivia Newton-John become an inspiration for the many, many around the world living with cancer.
A tireless advocate for countless charities, her true passion, she tells me, is as the founding champion of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne.

The multi-awarded star is a huge advocate of alternative medicine, and uses medicinal cannabis and other homeopathy, as well as traditional means in keeping her cancers at bay. “I intend to put more research into such. The Australian Government have this year given me a grant which I am using to investigate cannabis treatment with our cancer patients, men and women, in Melbourne.
“I truly believe medicinal cannabis will play a huge part in defeating cancer.”
I ask: “Is women’s health a political issue?”, alluding to Ireland’s cervical smear scandal and the North’s doggedness on abortion.
“Health should be a priority of all governments. Women’s health issues need listening to. Also, we all should be protected from pesticides and harmful additives in the food chain and from pollution in water. We need to protect people, animals too. The biggest threat facing us is the horrible things we are putting, allowing, into our environment.”

This is a politically animated Olivia Newton-John talking now, despite her earlier warding off of me.
“I think it’s becoming pretty obvious around the world that we are in a huge climate change. I think we are going to have to do what we can and more. Mother Nature is a huge force, yes, but we have our part to play and must do so.”
Afternoon tea arrives. “I was looking forward to Irish tea. Is this Lyons or Barry’s?”
She sips as we chat about music. “What do I listen to?” she retorts. “Oh my goodness me. There is such a lot of talent out there right now. Pink. I love Pink. Don’t you love Pink? The Beatles, wonderful. Beth Nielsen Chapman, I did an album with her some years back, about what it is for people to go through grief, to live with grief.
Chloe, my daughter, is a great singer...”

She is 70 now, the new 50s. “Does ageing worry me? No. I am delighted to be able to age... it is denied to so many.”
It is time to go. She has another engagement, selfies and autographs with Irish fans. “What next for Olivia Newton-John?” I ask as we touch hands.
“What next? I don’t know, isn’t that what’s exciting about life? Working hard while I am still able to raise money for my centre. My daughter to be happy and healthy. Do whatever I can to help people, which is what my mother told me...”
And I leave Olivia Newton-John, 40 odd years down the road from when Grease was the word, and it is a demure Sandy to whom I blow a kiss, but an equally defiant one. The Olivia Newton-John exhibition continues at the Museum of Style Icons at the Newbridge Silverware Visitor Centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare until Sunday, August 18. It is open seven days a week and admission is free. The museum also features garments and interesting artefacts from Hollywood stars, musicians, and celebrities.

For more information, see www.visitnewbridgesilverware.com or else call (045) 431301.







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NZ Woman's Weekly


Article vu dans le Woman's Weekly de Nouvelle Zélande !



Merci à Kay

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Olivia, you’ve the look that I want,
says Anne

The Irish Mail on Sunday
28 Jul 2019



RETIRED newsreader Anne Doyle seized the chance to question Olivia Newton-John at an event this week.
The exchange occurred at Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons, where the actress’s celebrated Grease leather jacket and trousers are on show until August 18.
Anne, who was in the audience for a discussion with the star, asked: ‘As someone who channelled Grease since the end of the Seventies and is still trying to, this is a woman’s question: how on earth do you remain so fabulous?’
‘That’s very kind of you,’ Olivia, 70, replied. Anne retorted: ‘No, it’s a very important question for a woman of a certain age, no kindness intended,’ inducing a chorus of laughs.
Olivia’s tips included positive thinking, keeping a sense of humour and the ‘wonderful love’ of her husband John. ‘Lady, it’s working,’ Anne replied.

samedi 27 juillet 2019

DAS NEUE

Ou la revue de presse de kAY / First Gazette in Germany puts out photo of the Exhibition last monday ...



Un grand merci à Kay

vendredi 26 juillet 2019

EUGENE

ACTOR EDDIE DEEZEN WILL HOST A “GREASE” SING-ALONG

The Fresno Bee
26 Jul 2019
BY BRYANT-JON ANTEOLA

Ou quand le Eugene de GREASE anime un Karaoké du film culte ... et plus !!


If you’ve got chills and they’re multiplying ... then you’ll be excited to know one of the actors from the movie “Grease” is coming to Fresno.
Actor Eddie Deezen, who might be best known for his role as Eugene in the movie classic, will host a sing-along screening of the musical July 27 at the Historic Crest Theater.
In addition, Deezen will hold a Q&A and sign autographs.
“Grease,” which came out in 1978, is considered one of the most iconic musical films ever and starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Deezen played a small role in the movie as a nerdy teen who gets picked on occasionally.
Nonetheless, his scenes in the film are quite memorable, including when “Eugene” throws a pie and hits the football coach’s face before one of the “T-Birds” smashes a pie from close range on Deezen’s face.
The sing-along screening is part of the Crest Theater’s 70th anniversary celebration.
“I’d love to see you,” Deezen wrote on his Facebook page. “I look forward to meeting the wonderful folks of Fresno!”


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Blackrock Film Festival 2019


Et GREASE sera joué cet été sur la plage du village de Blackrock, dans le cadre de son festival qui fête sa 4ème édition !
Blackrock se situe en Irlande !


https://www.visitblackrock.ie/blackrock-film-festival-2019-2/news


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THE TWEET




jeudi 25 juillet 2019

PHOTO

Petit souvenir parisien de 1981 ...


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SOUVENIRS DE GSTAAD


Olivia Newton-John en compagnie de Victoria Principale et leurs maris, John Travolta so sexy, Roger Moore, Elizabeth Taylor et j'en oublie ..

Il y a un peu trop de manteaux de fourrures à mon gout .. ONJ avait déjà compris ! C'est devenu tellement ringard !

Un grand merci à Mevin pour la trouvaille et à Kay pour l'avoir mise sur Youtube !



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MAGNETO


L'histoire d'un costume emblématique ..


LE TWEET DU JOUR

Article en italien sur la vente aux enchères des vêtements d'Olivia Newton-John avec 2 jolies galeries de photos sur GREASE ou les réunions avec John Travolta !







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OFFICIEL MESSAGE




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RETRO CLIPPING

Quand Hugh Jackman clamait son affection de jeunesse pour ONJ ... la réponse de celle ci fut .. troublante et drôle !



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LECTURE

En allemand


Un grand merci à Kay pour les articles !