Will it slip past Saturday Night Fever? - Rona Barrett's Gossip

SANDY

Olivia Newton-John Cambridge, England

(Ex-Australian change student... Danny's girl, she's the one that he wants summer romance the beach Sandra Dee... cheerleader the hit of the hop will bring a revival of ponytails and ribbons...watches the movie at drive-ins... a fan of hot rod drags happy endings. most likely to be world-renowned song stylist)

... she's Makin' A Good Thing Better with new hit album ... People's Choice Award, favorite musical performer, 74 & 76... Malibu spent 11 years Down Under... Billboard and Cashbox's top female vocalist, 75... pop and country singer...a face that never gets bad reviews

... no junk food junkie... hot-and-cold with Lee Kramer... ABC-TV Specials... has a temper... animal lover... six horses... Great Danes, Irish Setters... winner of eight American Music Awards Tahoe and Vegas sings by ear wowed erh at Livvy.

DANNY

John Travolta Englewood, N.J.

(Leader of the T-Birds... Kenickie's pal... Varsity Track, ... Sandy's main man, he's the one that she wants. Greased Lightning... most likely to pursue acting career... still a dancing fool...especially fond of fun-houses)

Best Actor Academy Award Nominee as Tony Mariero in Saturday Night Fever; Lily Tomlin's favorite delivery boy in Moment By Moment... Robert Reed and Diana Hyland's Boy in the Plastic Bubble... bilingual ice cream lover ...beef-brained Sweathog Vinnie Barbarino... song stylist of Let Her In...

Joey's kid brother Sci-Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather III? entologist... Carrie had him on her mind... DC-3 pilot for real... Fancy Hardware's phony traveling salesman?... celluloid Elvis Presley? $200,000-a-week offer from Vegas (breaking old record set by Elvis) claims no New York accent... can't disco without needing a bodyguard.

RIZZO

Stockard Channing New York, N.Υ.

(Queen of the Pink Ladies...spurned by Zuko... fell for they Kenickie teamed up for romance... a toughie on the outside, a softie underneath a good friend of Sandy's?. had .. one in the oven? ...what's the worst thing she could do? ...a Sandra Dee imitator... no fan of slumber parties ...mellowed by a happy ending agrees with Kenickie's plan to make an honest woman of her)...

a versatile native New Yorker... starred on the student stage at Radcliffe and Harvard... credited with over thirty-five stage productions... a chorus role in Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, switched to the lead role in L.A.... had No Hard Feelings about one-night stand on Broadway...

first TV-film tagged her The Girl Most Likely To become a star?... went Up The Sandbox with Barbra Streisand and wound up on the cutting floor... last seen with Peter Falk in The Cheap Detective.

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN-A Painful Lesson In Stardom!

Teen-dream stars like Shaun Cassidy and John Travolta have learned what happens when you're day! a superstar with an audience of young, exuberant fans, but Olivia Newton-John got her first lesson during the promotion of Grease.

Olivia joined Grease producer Allan Carr to attend the Chicago premiere of her first film. She knew that a number of fans were eagerly awaiting the event, but didn't worry since numerous police men were on hand to protect the young star. What no one had counted on was the crowd of nearly 3000 spectators that turned out for the event. When Olivia and Carr arrived in their limousine, the eager fans rushed to get a closer look, mobbing the car and sweeping away the police protection in the process.

Ms. Newton-John found herself in the position of the football in the middle of a tackle. Once she managed to get inside the theatre, she appeared to be all right. But Carr reported that not more than ten minutes into the movie, Olivia began to complain of rib pains. Companions saw to it that she made a fast exit and returned her to her hotel room where a doctor was summoned. The doctor's verdict: two fractured ribs (which were immediately taped), compliments of her adoring, but over-excited fans.

The pretty Australian singer learned a painful lesson, and decided that it was an experience she would not care to repeat. She had been planning to attend the sock hop that Carr was throwing to promote the film, but decided to pass, since she'd had all the star adoration she could take for one day!