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Interview by Spalding White<br />
The Great Gatsby author F.<br />
Scott Fitzgerald said that<br />
“in American lives, there<br />
are no second acts.” <strong>For</strong> many<br />
of us, that may be the awful<br />
truth. But if you’re John<br />
Travolta, not only do you get a<br />
second shot (overcoming a late<br />
’80s funk with 1994’s indelible<br />
Pulp Fiction), but the rebirth<br />
leads to your greatest creative<br />
challenges, biggest paychecks,<br />
and most interesting work.<br />
Now 51, Travolta has<br />
always possessed a cool<br />
swagger and an air of mystery.<br />
There’s that giant, sometimes<br />
goofy grin. That piercing,<br />
sometimes trenchant gaze.<br />
That acrobat’s precision with<br />
his body. If his characters<br />
occasionally seem a little<br />
dumb, they’re twice as deadly.<br />
If they seem a little simple-minded,<br />
they’re twice as driven.<br />
He’s like Cary Grant and<br />
Jimmy Cagney all in one —<br />
movie star stuff that, unexpectedly,<br />
feels like your suffering,<br />
and mine, often enough to resonate.<br />
Think Pulp Fiction, She’s<br />
So Lovely, Swordfish, A Love<br />
Song <strong>For</strong> Bobby Long. Earlier<br />
this summer, MGM released<br />
Travolta’s Be Cool on DVD.<br />
This winter, he will appear with<br />
“Sopranos” star James<br />
Gandolfini in Lonely Hearts, a<br />
psychological thriller about serial<br />
killers in the 1940’s.<br />
We got to “be cool” and<br />
got a sit-down with the megastar,<br />
and he showed us why the<br />
second act plays on.<br />
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Be Cool © MGM, Basic © Sony Pictures, Pulp Fiction © Miramax, Stayin Alive © Paramount
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