Travolta, Newton-John Not A Hot Item Yet
ROBIN ADAMS SLOAN, Syndicated Columnist
Q. Any truth to the report that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have fallen madly in love?
-S.F., Jersey City, N.J.
A. Just because they are co-starring in the film version of Grease, the rumor mill has been grinding away. The fact is both currently are dedicated only to their careers, and little else.
Olivia wanted to break into movies so much she took a smallish salary $125,000. Travolta has yet to recover from the loss to cancer of his much-older lover, Diana Hyland, who was in TV’s Eight Is Enough. He is telling close friends that he is going through a totally asexual period in his lingering grief.
Of course, John has always favored blonds and maybe at the end of three months of filming with beautiful Olivia, he will have found a new love. She’s available, having just ditched her former lover (who is also her manager), and she is living alone on her Malibu ranch.