THE IRELAND'S BIG ISSUE

L'Irlande édite à son tour le même interview d'ONJ ! 

 

Merci Mr Kay ! 

 

RECORD MIRROR

Mai 1976 :  il y avait déjà de l'eau dans le gaz entre ONJ et son manager/petit ami Lee Kramer .. du moins c'est ce que relate le RECORD MIRROR dans son édition du 1er mai ! 

Et le coté "je t'aime moi non plus" à fait qu'ONJ n'est pas venu défendre son album COME ON OVER au Royaume Uni ...Elle y  reviendra plus tard .. 

Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons

L'exposition des vêtements de scène et costumes de cinéma qui se déroule au Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons , situé pas très loin de Dublin, devait prendre fin initialement le 18 août ! L'expo fermera ses portes le 31 août !

Espérons que nos amis australiens auront la chance de les contempler à leur tour en marge de la venue d'ONJ dans son pays de cœur !

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LE SURFER D'ARGENT

Un film sur le Surfer d’Argent se rapproche chez Marvel !

L’avenir s’annoncerait radieux pour le Surfeur d’Argent ... chez Marvel qui a retrouvé ses droits et il y a donc un nouvel espoir pour les fans. Mais les choses auraient pu être très différentes si un film sur ce personnage avait été finalisé il y a des années....

Le surfeur est un personnage assez unique. Il peut canaliser l'énergie cosmique, réorganiser les molécules et parcourir l'univers à la vitesse de la lumière sur une planche de surf. Tout ce pouvoir vient de Galactus, une entité cosmique qui dévore les planètes.

Le surfeur argenté était autrefois un type ordinaire appelé Norrin Radd de la planète Zenn-La, mais lorsque Galactus a essayé de manger la planète de Radd, il a sauvé son monde en devenant le héraut de Galactus. Cela signifie fondamentalement qu'il parcourt l'univers à la recherche de planètes que son maître va détruire.

Dans les années 1980, le producteur exécutif de Xanadu , Lee Kramer, était déterminé à réaliser un film sur le Surfer D'argent qui réunirait un vaste univers cosmique avec une bande-son rock 'n' roll.
Lee Kramer disait : "We're going to make an epic picture on the scope of 2001: A Space Odyssey with the kind of soundtrack that that film had, only using contemporary rock 'n' roll. It's even conceivable that the Surfer might have a chant or a fanfare made up of one thousand electric guitars."

Le compositeur aurait pu être nul autre que Paul McCartney. Oui vraiment. La légende des Beatles a été approchée pour écrire la musique - et il était intéressé. En collaboration avec Jack Kirby, Lee a produit un nouveau roman graphique pour le film. Il a raconté l'histoire du surfeur voyageant sur Terre, reconnaissant le potentiel de grandeur de l'humanité et décide de s'opposer à Galactus.

Lee Kramer voulait que sa (ex)petite amie de l'époque, Olivia Newton-John, joue dans le film. Lee a donc ajouté le personnage d'Ardina, une version féminine du Surfer. Galactus crée Ardina pour tenter de récupérer son héraut. Inévitablement, Ardina craque pour le surfeur et défie Galactus. Galactus la tue donc et menace de détruire la Terre si le surfeur ne lui revient pas. À la fin, le surfeur se sacrifie et retourne à son maître...  mais le financement du film a échoué et n’a jamais été réalisé.

Nous allons donc simplement nous demander à quoi aurait pu ressembler un film sur le Surfer d'Argent, en mode opéra rock réalisé par Paul McCartney et interprété par Olivia Newton-John. ...

Un autre joli loupé ... pour un projet fou !

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28698991/silver-surfer-movie-cancelled-paul-mccartney/

BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Et fort heureusement que nous avons KAY ... ! Un grand merci !

En mode Web !


'I've had my tears but I have a wonderful husband and daughter who support me... If I allowed myself to go there I could easily create that big fear. But I believe I will win over cancer'
Olivia Newton-John talks to Paul Hopkins about Grease, her 27-year on-off fight with cancer and why she regrets never meeting her Nobel Prize-winning grandfather

August 3 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 demure Sandy into a seductress in skin-tight spandex and leather. That scene on celluloid when bad-boy Danny Zuko - the youthful 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 hormones-raging, young male 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 soundtrack.

"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 in the Republic, 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 Fifties 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 sea-blue 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 gorgeous and wholesome at an age when other women - and men - have given up the ghost, she puts down to a healthy intake of plant-based foods and an acceptance of taking each day as it comes.

Olivia Newton-John was born in 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 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 Sixties phenomenon The Monkees, recruited her to join Too-morrow, 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-the-road ballads that did well on both adult-contemporary and Country radio. She 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. In 1974, I Honestly Love You was Olivia Newton-John's first American No.1.

The soundtrack of Grease was the pivotal point in a career that has seen Olivia's collective output reach 100 million sales worldwide. One of the world's bestselling soundtracks, it spent 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 Congresswomen 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 has seen Olivia Newton-John become an inspiration for the many around the world living with the disease.

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 and 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."

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. Don't Stop Believing' (Penguin, €17.99) Olivia Newton-John's just published autobiography is available in all good bookshops, Penguin £15.99

EX-BOYFRIEND ‘FAKED DEATH’ MYSTERY

The former boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John caused a sensation when he was found alive after going missing 12 years previously.

Patrick McDermott, an American cameraman of Korean descent who was the on-and-off boyfriend of the star, was discovered in a small town in Mexico. Mr McDermott disappeared in 2005 while on a fishing trip.

The then 48-year-old set off on the fishing boat, Freedom, from San Pedro Marina, California, on June 30 that year but mysteriously disappeared, with personal items, including his wallet, left aboard.

While a US Coast Guard investigation released in November 2008 concluded that Mr McDermott "most likely" drowned, the circumstances around his disappearance triggered speculation that he faked his own death.

Belfast Telegraph

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/ive-had-my-tears-but-i-have-a-wonderful-husband-and-daughter-who-support-me-if-i-allowed-myself-to-go-there-i-could-easily-create-that-big-fear-but-i-believe-i-will-win-over-cancer-38360895.html

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 !

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The moment I asked Thee “Olivia Newton John” if she listens to Bob Marley with a joint to help with her cancer! 🙀😂🙈🇯🇲 🇦🇺 The answer is NO! But she does love @jamaica and @bobmarley #phew 😅 (You know when the words come out...but then you hear yourself... 🤦🏿‍♀️🙈honestly I’m glad she spoke about cannabis being used medically and I fully support @therealonj goals to see the end of cancer globally) What a week! What an icon! #iloveONJ The Famous ‘Bad Sandy’ outfit will be auctioned in November. But it’s on display in the museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Silverware Museum until 18th August @newbridgesilverware #iGotChills #yourtheonethatiwant #letsgetphyisical #xanadu

Une publication partagée par Nadine Reid (@nadinereid) le 27 Juil. 2019 à 4 :26 PDT

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WOMAN'S DAY


Petit article dans le dernier WD australien du 5 août !

Un grand merci à Kay !

THE RAY D'ARCY SHOW

Icon Olivia Newton John

We have a real treat for you this afternoon, icon Olivia Newton-John is in the studio this afternoon. She is in Ireland to launch a new exhibition in the Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons featuring her iconic black outfit from the finale of Grease.

We have the icon that is Olivia Newton John live in studio now with Ray 😍 and yes that’s Sandy’s outfit from #Grease 🙌 pic.twitter.com/TqXuCgLSW5

— RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) 23 juillet 2019

Et vous pouvez écouter notre charmante ONJ ci-dessous vers les 0:23:00

" https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/11066325 "

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Ray, you could give Danny a run for his money 😎
Icon Olivia Newton-John shows Ray a few moves from 'You're The One That I Want' 💃🏼🕺🏼
You can listen back to their full interview here 📲 https://t.co/dY3lji23Fa @RadioRayRTE pic.twitter.com/z8fn1yOrWD

— RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) 23 juillet 2019

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TWEET

Celui du CloserWeekly qu'on ne peut pas lire en Europe à cause des nouvelles lois à la con ... mais comme ça n'est pas de la grande lecture on s'en passera!

@olivianj was all smiles at the event! ❤️ https://t.co/LhiA4nabvU

— Closer Weekly (@closerweekly) 23 juillet 2019

L'IMAGE DU JOUR

Pour le https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/images-of-the-day-1.3964110

GREASE THE WHEELS: Olivia Newton-John visits Newbridge Silverware's Museum of Style Icons, where she unveiled an exhibit of clothes she has worn on screen. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

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WATCH: Olivia Newton-John lauds medicinal cannabis

Olivia Newton-John delved into her battles with cancer in Kildare today as she unveiled her exhibition at the Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons.

The Grease star was warmly received by an audience including Anne Doyle, Celia Holman-Lee and Amy Huberman, who hosted a chat with the actress before opening questions to the floor.

Discussing her own experiences of cancer and what helped her through, as well as outlining what she wants to achieve with the rest of her life led Olivia to laud medicinal cannabis.

Watch the video below to see what helped Olivia Newton-John through her three bouts of cancer and why she advocates for cannabis being used as a medicine.



https://evoke.ie/2019/07/22/showbiz/watch-olivia-newton-john-cannabis

Pics: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

THE HOOP DANCE

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Olivia Newton-John is in Ireland to launch a very iconic style exhibition



She has always been a style icon.

From the very first moment I saw Olivia Newton-John in Grease, I knew she was always going to be someone I would adore. From when she wore her preppy cardigans and long A-line skirts to her donning the badass leather look, my style has always fallen in between those two total ~*moods*~ because of her.

The actress touched down in Ireland today to open a new exhibition in Newbridge Silverware's Museum of Style Icons and it's definitely something all fans should attend.

Throughout the years she has gone through various style stages so it's no wonder that Newbridge wanted to showcase some of her most famous looks.

Of course, the leather look will be on show as well as 'Physical' and 'Xanadu' wardrobe pieces, gowns she wore to events, some awards she won and more.

Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien’s Auctions said of Olivia: “Her extraordinary career - that includes her starring role in Grease, one of the most successful Hollywood films and soundtracks of all time - and her recordings of some of the biggest pop singles of the 20th Century, makes her more than just a star but a pop culture phenomenon.”

Newbridge will be the first stop of the exhibition tour, which will give fans (including a very excited Amy Huberman) a glimpse of Olivia's most famous looks.

The exhibition will be on display in Newbridge from July 22 until August 18. The pieces will then go up for auction in November in the US with a portion of proceeds going to benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre.

Olivia Hayes

https://www.her.ie/style/olivia-newton-john-newbridge-silverwares-museum-style-icons-474035

FROM KAY

This Video was filmed by Michael Caprio for a facebook livestream. Many thanks to him keeping this Moment digitally. No infringement intended.

Olivia Newton-John Q&A at Newbridge Silverware (Dublin, July 22, 2019)




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AUTRES TWEETS & INSTAS

Olivia Newton John arrives at @newbridgesilver to personally unveil her collection. The #exhibition will be open to the public starting today. Learn more at https://t.co/ahsXX38A8G! @onjcancercentre @olivianj #OliviaNewtonJohn #Memorabilia #Exhibit #Auction #JuliensAuctions pic.twitter.com/48JyfK8ONV

— Juliens Auctions (@JuliensAuctions) 22 juillet 2019

Olivia Newton John reveals whether she preferred playing “Good Sandy” or “Bad Sandy” as she unveils her exhibition in @newbridgesilver 😍 #ONJNewbridge pic.twitter.com/33HtCK53lD

— Stellar Magazine (@stellarmagazine) 22 juillet 2019

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Olivia Newton-John unveiled an exhibition of her iconic style looks @newbridgesilverware #MuseumofStyleIcons today with press conference host @amy_huberman! ♥️ That leather jacket still looks AMAZING! 😍 📷 Leon Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

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The adorable #OliviaNewtonJohn ⁦@newbridgesilver⁩ .. her advice to those on a Cancer journey .. keep living .. eat well .. keep the head right ... The amazing collection of her iconic clothes from film on display #MuseumOfStyleIcons until August 18th ... don’t miss it ! pic.twitter.com/kTCKTC6jB5

— Noel Cunningham (@DonegalNoel) 22 juillet 2019

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IRISH DAILY MIROR

TWEETS & INSTAS

Ca s'est passé au Museum of Style ...

#ONJ is in the house! Olivia arrives to be greeted by Martin from Julien’s Auction House Beverly Hills & William Doyle CEO of @newbridgesilver pic.twitter.com/6EqkMUXEgI

— Kittiwake Solutions (@Kittiwake_ie) 22 juillet 2019

We’re at @newbridgesilver’s Museum of Style Icons this afternoon, in partnership with Julien’s Auctions where @amyhuberman is in conversation with @olivianj.💙 pic.twitter.com/qIaZQgB2Lp

— EVOKE.ie (@EVOKE) 22 juillet 2019

@amyhuberman interviewing the gorgeous @olivianj #ONJ #OliviaNewtonJohn @newbridgesilver #MuseumofStyleIcons #IcontoIcon @Failte_Ireland @ancienteastIRL pic.twitter.com/Dubn3u9wri

— Kittiwake Solutions (@Kittiwake_ie) 22 juillet 2019

Work today is in @newbridgesilver’s Museum of Style Icons where @amyhuberman is in conversation with none other than @olivianj!💙 pic.twitter.com/N5x9wRgXTh

— Fionnuala Moran (@FionnualaMoran) 22 juillet 2019

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My favourite Pink Lady , Sandy Baby @therealonj #Icon #OliviaNewtonJohn #Kildare

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SO FUNNY ...

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Olivia today at @newbridgesilverware launching her incredible auction 🤩♥️ [📸: @newbridgesilverware instalive] • • • • • • • • • @therealonj #olivianewtonjohn #onj #grease #sandyolsson #xanadu #magic #kira #twoofakind #twistoffate #aussie #australian #singer #songwriter #actress #throwback #hollywood #oldhollywood #oldschool #tb #lovelylivvy #livvy #livon #thriver

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Olivia Newton-John est aujourd'hui en Irlande pour ouvrir une exposition spéciale et gratuite avec ses costumes et ses souvenirs avant que ces articles ne soient vendus aux enchères à Beverly Hills.

Issue of the Day: Olivia Newton-John exhibition

By Maureen Sugden
Reporter


Olivia Newton-John is in Ireland today to open a special exhibit of her costumes and memorabilia before the items go up for auction in Beverly Hills.

So for fans of the pop culture extravaganza of 1978 that became the most successful movie musical of all time, Grease is definitely the word…

Are they the ones that you want?

Everyone will want to see the iconic black skin-tight trousers and biker jacket from the "You’re the One That I Want” scene, where Olivia’s character transforms into “Siren Sandy” to woo John Travolta’s Danny Rizzo.

Olivia had to be sewn into the trousers?

Yes, the star, who was 29 and superslim when she played 17-year-old Sandy Olsson, still had to be carefully stitched into the 1950s vintage trousers.

She said: “I limited myself to a few sips of water and no food. At lunch, they actually had to unstitch me to eat and then re-stitch me after a bathroom trip.”

The trousers made crew members drop their lunch?

Apparently. In her new memoir, “Don’t Stop Believin”, she said: “All the men on the crew began to do double and triple takes as they turned around to stare at me with jaws that headed south. I think a sandwich or two hit the floor.”

How much are they likely to sell for?

The jacket and trousers could go for around $200,000 alone.

What else is on show?

Other Grease-related items include her original script and while Sandy herself never sported one of the movie’s monogrammed Pink Ladies jackets, Olivia is auctioning off one later presented to her by the cast and crew.

Olivia isn’t ‘hopelessly devoted’ to her belongings?

Now 70, the Cambridge-born star, who emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, when she was six, feels the time is right to let them go.

“It won't be a wrench to part with them because they were never really mine. They were Sandy’s,” she said.

How is she doing now?

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, she was given the all-clear after chemotherapy and a mastectomy, but in 2013, she found out it was in her shoulder and it then in 2017, it was found in her lower back.
Last week, she revealed her positive outlook: “I’m living with cancer and it’s going away. I’m grateful for every day and life is wonderful.”

She has her own “wellness centre?"

Olivia has been a staunch advocate for health awareness, which inspired her to help create the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne.
A portion of the auction proceeds will go towards the cutting edge facility.

From County Kildare to…California?

Quite a leap on the face of it, but the venue for the pre-auction exhibit is Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons in County Kildare. The museum came into being when the CEO of Newbridge snapped up Audrey Hepburn's iconic black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany's at auction. When Martin Nolan, the Irish executive director of Beverly Hills-based Julien's celebrity auction house heard about this, he suggested working together with the venue in his homeland.

So when is the auction?

Olivia will officially open the exhibit today, which runs to August 18, before the items go on show at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills from October 28, with the auction held live and online on November 1 and 2.

She said: “Selling them is a joyful thing. And I think as you get older, you want to simplify things. You have so much stuff and that's not what's important in life. Memories are enough.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17785441.issue-day-olivia-newton-john-exhibition/