vendredi 10 août 2018
jeudi 9 août 2018
Xanadoooou
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Join Olivia Newton-John in conversation with Ray Martin, live on stage, re-living her extraordinary life! The My Ticktek Pre-Sale is on NOW: https://t.co/VsclAjh1R6 pic.twitter.com/kaxJpDrH7k— Ticketek Australia (@Ticketek_AU) 9 août 2018
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Rêver
En 2017 JULIANA HATFIELD declarait au site nouvelle-vague.com : ''Tu sais avec qui j’aimerais vraiment chanter ? Olivia Newton-John. Ce serait un rêve. Je l’aimais tellement quand j’étais jeune, donc j’espère encore qu’un jour j’aurai l’occasion de chanter avec elle.''
Elle n'a pas encore eu la chance de chanter avec l' idole de sa jeunesse mais elle a sortie depuis un album de reprises très pertinentes et tenue des propos plus que flatteurs à l'encontre d'ONJ !
Est ce que l’intéressée répondra à son souhait ??! ONJ "sur du" et avec JULIANA HATFIELD .. çà serait détonnant !! ...
What a smile
ONJ ou l'un des plus beaux sourires ... sur une superbe reprise de Madeleine Peyroux - Smile
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Les clippings de Kay !
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Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee
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Les clippings de Kay !
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Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee
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COVER
C'était un 9 août 1980, ONJ faisait la couverture du magazine CASHBOX !
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PORTRAIT
mercredi 8 août 2018
Happy XANADU !
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THE GOOD TIMES KEEP ON ROLLIN’
Herald Sun
9 Aug 2018
Watching Grease in 2018 is like bumping into an old friend it is simply great to catch up with again.
You immediately forgive all the obvious flaws — the tacky acting, the silly songs, the delirious dancing. Instead, you find yourself willing Grease to keep on doing whatever it was that made you like it so much in the first place.
Everywhere you look, a perfectly chosen cast are extending an open invitation to switch off your mind and simply have a good time.
At the forefront of the action is John Travolta at his absolute peak — a snakehipped 23-year-old forever straddling a Thunderbird convertible while he cuts the air with his pointed finger.
There’s Jeff Conaway, giving Travolta all the lipcurling back-up he needs. Although she looks old enough to be the mother of most of her co-stars, Stockard Channing gives off a tarnished shine as the “easy” teenager of the bunch.
Former ’50s icons such as Frankie Avalon, Ed “Cookie” Byrnes and Eve Arden also provide their fair share of magic in their handful of scenes.
Then there’s Australia’s own Olivia Newton-John as the goody-two-shoes heroine of the story, somehow breaking out of her kewpie doll cocoon to become a leather-clad babe of a butterfly to die for.
There can be no argument that Grease is one of those timeless classics that is brilliant despite itself.
Sprinkled with that indescribable sparkle that defies good taste and conventional logic, it is the ultimate embodiment of the phrase “it’s hip to be square”.
Don’t bother trying to put an exact finger on why it somehow became one of the most beloved flicks of all time.
Grease has been the word for 40 years now, and it remains as fresh and deliciously escapist as the first time you ever clapped eyes on it.
Grease: 40th Anniversary Season screens in general release for a limited time from next Thursday, August 16
This week everybody’s talking about... JOHN TRAVOLTA
After 40 years, bad-boy Danny in Grease remains the actor’s most cherished role, writes Michele Manelis
Herald Sun - Hit TV
8 Aug 2018
As far as enduring screen relationships go, few can hold a candle to Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.
Forty years after their summer love was ripped at the seams, then rekindled to the tune of You’re the One That I Want, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Grease remains as loved as it ever was.
And boy, was it loved. Grease outgrossed the other big film of 1978, Christopher Reeve’s Superman, in the US and Australia and remained the highest-grossing movie musical of all time until finally dethroned by ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia! 30 years later. Now, as it hand jives its way back into cinemas to mark its 40th anniversary, it’s nice to know Grease still means as much to its stars as it does to fans.
Travolta, who was presented the Cinema Icon award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, doesn’t have to think hard when asked if the honour had prompted him to reflect on which films had meant the most to him across his career. “My biggest joy would be Grease,” he says. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving. People turn on the television and they will watch the whole thing.” He laughs, shaking his head. “What 40-year-old movie do people watch? It was a true phenomenon.”
Meanwhile, the Grease hits — Hopelessly Devoted to You; Summer Nights; We Go Together; Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee — remain a staple whenever Newton-John performs.
The two stars also catch up whenever possible. “It should be known that
I had a crush on Olivia before I ever met her,” Travolta, now 64, laughs. Years before the movie, Travolta already had a connection to Grease: as a kid growing up in New Jersey, he’d hiked across the river to see the stage musical. “I have to admit, I was kind of a sad teenager and I’d seen the off Broadway production of Grease. It cheered me up,” he recalls. A year later, he got a gig in that production, playing T-Bird Doody. “But my secret dream was to play Danny in the movie,” he says. “Then … boom, I got the movie.”
While he was dreaming of playing Danny, Travolta says: “In my mind, if ever there was a movie of Grease, the only one that could ever play Sandy would be Olivia Newton John.
“It was selfish of me because I liked her. So I went to her house to encourage her to do a screen test. I said, ‘Really Olivia, you just have to be yourself. You’d have a lot of fun being somebody wild and sexy, so let’s try it’. She screen-tested and … boom, she was in.”
But not so fast. Paramount wanted a “name” to play Sandy, which Newton-John was far from being in the US in 1977. The Australian was also nervous about risking her burgeoning music career on doing another movie after her first had flopped.
Travolta took it upon himself to be ONJ’s cheer squad. “I just couldn’t get her out of my mind for that role,” he says. “And I proved to be quite correct.”
Cannes wasn’t just a chance to reminisce for Travolta; he was also there to launch his passion project, Gotti, a biopic about the notorious mob boss.
Directed by Entourage star Kevin Connolly, the film will be released on DVD and digital in Australia on October 31.
Gotti was criticised upon release in the US for painting too likeable a portrait of the crime boss. But through his research into playing the crime figure, Travolta had come to see “an integrity” to how Gotti behaved.
“I asked many people, ‘He took from your businesses — why did you love him?’ They said, ‘Because he protected us if we went into the red’. He would never let them close their business, which is why the people were rooting for him. I’d never heard of a gangster like that.”
Travolta kept the movie in the family, recruiting his wife Kelly Preston, 55, to play Gotti’s wife Victoria.
“She’s incredibly talented,” he smiles. “I never worry about her holding her own because she does it better than most. I knew that she would nail this, because as I am Gotti, she is Victoria. We have fun being other people.”
But being the Gottis cut close to the bone. In 1980, the mobsters’ son Frank was killed when he was struck by a car. Travolta and Preston lost their son Jett, then 16, when he died of a seizure during a family holiday.
“That was the hardest to do together,” Preston agrees. “But we are a very playful family. We do plays, we dance, we are very silly, so this was an extension of that.”
Travolta and Preston’s daughter Ella Bleu is 18, while son Benjamin is 8 this year. The couple still appear to genuinely enjoy each other.
“It’s so much fun being around John, we make each other laugh really hard,” Preston says. “And although we’ve been together 27 years now, he can still surprise me.”
“IT SHOULD BE KNOWN THAT I HAD A CRUSH ON OLIVIA BEFORE I EVER MET HER” ... on le ait ! ;-)
Herald Sun - Hit TV
8 Aug 2018
As far as enduring screen relationships go, few can hold a candle to Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.
Forty years after their summer love was ripped at the seams, then rekindled to the tune of You’re the One That I Want, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Grease remains as loved as it ever was.
And boy, was it loved. Grease outgrossed the other big film of 1978, Christopher Reeve’s Superman, in the US and Australia and remained the highest-grossing movie musical of all time until finally dethroned by ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia! 30 years later. Now, as it hand jives its way back into cinemas to mark its 40th anniversary, it’s nice to know Grease still means as much to its stars as it does to fans.
Travolta, who was presented the Cinema Icon award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, doesn’t have to think hard when asked if the honour had prompted him to reflect on which films had meant the most to him across his career. “My biggest joy would be Grease,” he says. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving. People turn on the television and they will watch the whole thing.” He laughs, shaking his head. “What 40-year-old movie do people watch? It was a true phenomenon.”
Meanwhile, the Grease hits — Hopelessly Devoted to You; Summer Nights; We Go Together; Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee — remain a staple whenever Newton-John performs.
The two stars also catch up whenever possible. “It should be known that
I had a crush on Olivia before I ever met her,” Travolta, now 64, laughs. Years before the movie, Travolta already had a connection to Grease: as a kid growing up in New Jersey, he’d hiked across the river to see the stage musical. “I have to admit, I was kind of a sad teenager and I’d seen the off Broadway production of Grease. It cheered me up,” he recalls. A year later, he got a gig in that production, playing T-Bird Doody. “But my secret dream was to play Danny in the movie,” he says. “Then … boom, I got the movie.”
While he was dreaming of playing Danny, Travolta says: “In my mind, if ever there was a movie of Grease, the only one that could ever play Sandy would be Olivia Newton John.
“It was selfish of me because I liked her. So I went to her house to encourage her to do a screen test. I said, ‘Really Olivia, you just have to be yourself. You’d have a lot of fun being somebody wild and sexy, so let’s try it’. She screen-tested and … boom, she was in.”
But not so fast. Paramount wanted a “name” to play Sandy, which Newton-John was far from being in the US in 1977. The Australian was also nervous about risking her burgeoning music career on doing another movie after her first had flopped.
Travolta took it upon himself to be ONJ’s cheer squad. “I just couldn’t get her out of my mind for that role,” he says. “And I proved to be quite correct.”
Cannes wasn’t just a chance to reminisce for Travolta; he was also there to launch his passion project, Gotti, a biopic about the notorious mob boss.
Directed by Entourage star Kevin Connolly, the film will be released on DVD and digital in Australia on October 31.
Gotti was criticised upon release in the US for painting too likeable a portrait of the crime boss. But through his research into playing the crime figure, Travolta had come to see “an integrity” to how Gotti behaved.
“I asked many people, ‘He took from your businesses — why did you love him?’ They said, ‘Because he protected us if we went into the red’. He would never let them close their business, which is why the people were rooting for him. I’d never heard of a gangster like that.”
Travolta kept the movie in the family, recruiting his wife Kelly Preston, 55, to play Gotti’s wife Victoria.
“She’s incredibly talented,” he smiles. “I never worry about her holding her own because she does it better than most. I knew that she would nail this, because as I am Gotti, she is Victoria. We have fun being other people.”
But being the Gottis cut close to the bone. In 1980, the mobsters’ son Frank was killed when he was struck by a car. Travolta and Preston lost their son Jett, then 16, when he died of a seizure during a family holiday.
“That was the hardest to do together,” Preston agrees. “But we are a very playful family. We do plays, we dance, we are very silly, so this was an extension of that.”
Travolta and Preston’s daughter Ella Bleu is 18, while son Benjamin is 8 this year. The couple still appear to genuinely enjoy each other.
“It’s so much fun being around John, we make each other laugh really hard,” Preston says. “And although we’ve been together 27 years now, he can still surprise me.”
“IT SHOULD BE KNOWN THAT I HAD A CRUSH ON OLIVIA BEFORE I EVER MET HER” ... on le ait ! ;-)
OU SORTIR ?
Que va nous raconter Olivia Newton-John de si croustillant durant 2 heures ? .. de l’inédit ? Avec quoi va t-elle tenir en haleine une audience qui lui sera sans doute déjà acquise ?
The actor, author, activist and award-winning singer-songwriter will share experiences from more than four decades of life in the limelight
Get to know one of Australia’s most beloved entertainers live in conversation. Olivia Newton-John will join television journalist Ray Martin at Sydney’s State Theatre this September, where the two big personalities will discuss her diverse career and international identity.
Many recognise Newton-John as the naive Sandy from the movie Grease or as the sparkling roller-skating beauty in the 1980 film Xanadu, but it’s her impressive music career and advocacy worked that’s charmed audiences worldwide. The Aussie entertainer has four Grammy Awards on her mantel and has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide. But keep in mind, this event is a discussion, not a concert, so don’t hold out for a 2018 revival of ‘Physical’.
Throughout her career, she’s worked to support humanitarian causes, advocating for animal rights and supporting medical research and treatment through the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne.
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Fri 14 Sep
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
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Une bien jolie fleur
''Take the time to smell the roses, Take the time to watch the stars ''
The actor, author, activist and award-winning singer-songwriter will share experiences from more than four decades of life in the limelight
Get to know one of Australia’s most beloved entertainers live in conversation. Olivia Newton-John will join television journalist Ray Martin at Sydney’s State Theatre this September, where the two big personalities will discuss her diverse career and international identity.
Many recognise Newton-John as the naive Sandy from the movie Grease or as the sparkling roller-skating beauty in the 1980 film Xanadu, but it’s her impressive music career and advocacy worked that’s charmed audiences worldwide. The Aussie entertainer has four Grammy Awards on her mantel and has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide. But keep in mind, this event is a discussion, not a concert, so don’t hold out for a 2018 revival of ‘Physical’.
Throughout her career, she’s worked to support humanitarian causes, advocating for animal rights and supporting medical research and treatment through the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne.
TICKETS
Prices:
Premium: $169.00
A Reserve: $129.00
B Reserve: $89.00
https://www.statetheatre.com.au/show-calendar/olivia-newton-john/
https://lateralevents.com/public-events/olivia-newton-john-live-2018/
Fri 14 Sep
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
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MY TICKETEK PRESALE
Thu 9 Aug, 11am - Mon 13 Aug, 9.59am
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Une bien jolie fleur
''Take the time to smell the roses, Take the time to watch the stars ''
C' était un ...
... 8 août 1980 ... Xanadu, sortait sur les écrans américains ! .... Tout est dit dans la bande annonce ! L’histoire se veut « féerique » et « surnaturelle » mais le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous !
et pour marquer l'anniversaire, nos amis japonais ressortent le film en Blu-Ray ....
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/GNXF-2354
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Top 10 Female Artists of All Time
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Magnéto
et pour marquer l'anniversaire, nos amis japonais ressortent le film en Blu-Ray ....
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/GNXF-2354
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Top 10 Female Artists of All Time
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Magnéto
mardi 7 août 2018
Serenity ( re )
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That's All I Know For Sure
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Retro Article
Olivia Newton-John, The Pony-tailed Cutie Of `Grease,` All Grown Up In Down-and-dirty Video
HOLLYWOOD — Olivia Newton-John will be heard from but rarely seen during the next five months as she awaits the arrival of her first child.
Newton-John was perched prettily on a divan in the temporary living room of her Malibu aerie high atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific. She is remodeling her rambling home across the road to accommodate a nursery, among other things.
Her wide blue eyes were filled with excitement at the thought of motherhood, but the four-minute videotape she played of her new album Soul Kiss, was anything but maternal.
There was a new Olivia up there on the screen, a sexy, sultry beauty showing off her legs and vamping a handsome young dude with some passionate kisses in parody of classic movie love scenes from ``Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and Wuthering Heights.``
The handsome young dude, incidentally, is the singer`s husband, actor Matt Lattanzi, garbed in a male bikini. Newton-John explained she didn`t want to kiss another actor.
Her video borders on down and dirty with her blond hair falling across her face. Her bare feet are adorned with toe rings. In one scene Olivia is almost unrecognizable in a black wig. In another with strobes and other wild lighting effects Newton-John is an outright sex kitten on a red velvet bed that emits steam.
The topper is Newton-John in a Marilyn Monroe wig in a bubble bath complete with champagne. Lattanzi kisses Olivia, after which she pulls the fully clothed Lattanzi into the tub with her. Newton-John giggled delightedly as she watched the action on the screen.
What happened to the pony-tailed cutie of ``Grease,`` the innocent high schooler who fell in love with John Travolta? `I`m not a little girl anymore. My God, I`m 37 and all grown up,` Newton-John said. `I can`t do cutesy-cutesy stuff anymore. `I gather from my mail that my fans are growing up with me and are happy that I`m doing more sophisticated things. I don`t want to do the same music I did 10 years ago. It would be very boring.
`The tone of this video was the logical step, you know. It`s kind of moody and suggests something sensual, and I thought I was ready for that. I felt comfortable doing it. I didn`t feel there was anything wrong with it. `Not every song on the new album is like that, nor are the other four videos. You know what`s funny? I did that video last week when I was four months pregnant.
`The whole image changed, I think, when I did my `Physical` album a couple of years ago (which sold 10 million copies).
`That album sort of opened new areas for me, so to speak. `Soul Kiss` is an extension of what I did in `Physical.` It`s even more adventurous for me with more up-tempo stuff.
``The music was quite difficult for me to sing. I would say it`s another step up for me. It`s more rocky, but not punky. I would say it`s very current, but it doesn`t sound like anyone else`s stuff, thanks to my producer, John Farrar.``
`Physical`` amounted to a comeback on the charts for Newton-John who discovered pop singers today cannot simply rely on a new album and a concert tour every year or so. She learned the necessity of changing styles to keep current.
She is aware that Cyndi Lauper and Madonna break new ground almost every time they go to bat. `I like them both,`` she said. ``I think they are very innovative and talented. What they`re doing is new and refreshing. Anything new is exciting. And the music business needs stimulation all the time. They`ve opened up a lot of new areas and that`s great for everybody.
`You`ve got to keep growing and evolving. You have to take a few chances and make changes.``
Newton-John will be changing diapers next February when her baby is expected. Until the baby arrives she will keep a low profile. She is developing a movie project at Paramount Pictures for which she and a friend wrote the script. She hopes to star in the film next year.
The English-born, Australian-reared star will also keep busy with her Aussie retail store, Koala Blue, which she is expanding to include nationwide franchising.
`I won`t be doing any live performing until after the baby arrives, which is the biggest production of my life,`` she said.
lundi 6 août 2018
La petite coupure de presse
RAY TO SHINE LIGHLIGHT ON ONJ
Herald Sun
7 Aug 2018
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN will appear on stage in Melbourne next month for an in-conversation event with RAY MARTIN.
Newton-John (above) will chat about her career spanning spann more than five decades in the interview. The evening is on September 14 at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
General tickets on sale from August 13.
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Grease fun fact
Herald Sun
7 Aug 2018
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN will appear on stage in Melbourne next month for an in-conversation event with RAY MARTIN.
Newton-John (above) will chat about her career spanning spann more than five decades in the interview. The evening is on September 14 at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
General tickets on sale from August 13.
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Do You ?
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Grease fun fact
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