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You Voted: 'Butch' Remake With John Travolta, Tom Cruise Not Wanted

Posted Nov 13th 2009 9:14AM By: PopEater Staff


After reports surfaced that John Travolta wanted to do a remake of the classic film 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' PopEater teamed up with Access Hollywood's AH Nation to see if people liked the idea. However, 41K votes were cast and a whopping 81 percent said "leave this masterpiece alone." Watch It

 

VOTE: A 'Butch Cassidy' Remake With John Travolta and Tom Cruise?

Posted Nov 11th 2009 8:30PM By: PopEater Staff


John Travolta is excited about possibly starring in a remake of the classic 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with buddy Tom Cruise.

"Someone came up with a good idea - it was a remake of 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid' - and there was a rumor that we were gonna do that, and I said to Tom, 'It's not a terrible rumor, it's not a bad idea,'" the 'Grease' star said.
 

Travolta Family Makes First Red Carpet Appearance Since Jett's Death

Posted Nov 10th 2009 9:30AM By: PopEater Staff

On Monday, John Travolta made his first red carpet appearance since the death of his son Jett in January. Travolta showed up with wife Kelly Preston and their daughter, Ella Bleu, at the LA premiere of 'Old Dogs,' Ella's first movie in which she stars alongside her dad. "We decided it was OK to come out and promote, to introduce her to the world and to give her a beautiful future in film," said Travolta. The nine-year-old actress got plenty of attention on the red carpet from her parents, who kept planting kisses on both her cheeks.

 

Travoltas Use Family, Religion and Therapy to Cope With Jett's Death

Posted Nov 9th 2009 1:45PM By: PopEater Staff


The long road to emotional recovery has been a difficult process for the Travolta family after the tragic loss of their son but they are improving.

"We've been working very hard every day as a family to heal," said John Travolta in his first interview (with USA Today) since his son Jett's death. "We partake in spiritual counseling pretty much daily," said his wife Kelly Preston. Jett Travolta died after a seizure at the family home on Grand Bahama island in January. He was 16.
 

Bahamian Politician Says Sorry to Judge... But Not to Travoltas

Posted Oct 28th 2009 7:55AM By: PopEater Staff

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Picewell Forbes, the lawmaker whose public slip-up caused a mistrial in the John Travolta extortion case, has apologized to the judge and the people of the Bahamas - but there was no "sorry" for the Travolta family. "My statements were reckless and interfered with the course of justice in that case and were further capable of bringing disrepute to the whole administration of justice," Forbes said during a news conference, the Associated Press reports.
 

Scientology Helping John Travolta Deal With Son's Death

Posted Oct 23rd 2009 7:10AM By: PopEater Staff

John Travolta's faith in Scientology has given him strength to deal with his son's death, his close friends told PEOPLE. "John goes to Clearwater, Fla., [where Scientology has a center] four days a week. He flies [the 15-minute distance] in his little plane every night, and it's helped him."

Over the weekend, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri reunited with Travolta and wife Kelly Preston -- plus over 4000 other Scientologists -- at a massive party in England.
 

John Travolta Extortion Case Ends

Posted Oct 22nd 2009 6:33AM By: PopEater / Wire Services

The trial of two people accused of trying to extort John Travolta following the death of his son in the Bahamas has ended in a mistrial after a lawmaker suggested the still-deliberating jury had acquitted one of the defendants. Senior Justice Anita Allen said she was reluctantly ordering a new trial "in the interest of justice" because the politician's statement, in a speech broadcast on television and radio, gave the appearance of an improper leak from the jury room. "The dilemma that we face is great," Allen told the court. "I am erring on the side of caution. Justice must be transparent."

 

Tom and Katie Celebrate With Travoltas at Secret Scientology Event

Posted Oct 21st 2009 6:15AM By: PopEater Staff

Over the weekend, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri reunited with John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston -- plus over 6,500 Scientologists and their guests celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists in England on Oct. 16, Usmagazine has confirmed. They were surprise guests at the 25th anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists. During nearly two hours of speeches, Church leader David Miscavige briefly addressed the crowd: "Because we never took our eyes off the ultimate prize, we stand where we are today... We are in this together!"

 

Cops: Woman Scorched Travolta Evidence When Scandal 'Was About to Explode'

Posted Oct 9th 2009 6:07AM By: PopEater Staff

A Bahamas police officer testified Thursday that a woman on trial for allegedly trying to blackmail John Travolta acknowledged burning a document at the center of the case. Pleasant Bridgewater, one of two defendants in the alleged plot to demand $25 million from the movie star, told police the day she was arrested that she destroyed the form with Travolta's signature "after she noticed the situation was about to explode," Detective Deborah Thompson said.
 

Travolta Blackmail Trial Turns Into 'A Few Good Men'

Posted Oct 7th 2009 8:28AM By: PopEater Staff

The extortion trial surrounding the death of John Travolta's son turned into a reading of 'A Few Good Men' on Tuesday after the actor's lawyer channeled Jack Nicholson to bring the court to laughter. The moment occurred when defense attorney Murrio Ducille accused Travolta's attorney Michael McDermott of entrapment.

"I suggest, Mr. McDermott, that you sought to give birth to an extortion plot but it was stillborn," Ducille said at Bahamas Supreme Court.

"And I suggest that you can't handle the truth," McDermott volleyed back.
 

Tapes: Suspect Felt 'So Badly' During Travolta Blackmail Attempt

Posted Oct 5th 2009 2:00PM By: PopEater Staff

A defendant accused of plotting to extort millions from Hollywood actor John Travolta felt guilty about the plan, according to TMZ.

"I just want to get this over with..." said Pleasant Bridgewater in tapes being played at the hearing today. "I don't want to hear about it again ... I feel so badly about the whole thing," she regretted.
 

Travolta: Bahamas Medic Threatened Me

Posted Oct 1st 2009 10:00AM By: PopEater / Wire Services

John Travolta testified Wednesday that Bahamas paramedic Tarino Lightbourne threatened to sell stories to the media suggesting the actor was at fault in the death of his 16-year-old son. Travolta said the paramedic, who is now on trial for extortion, demanded $25 million. If Travolta refused, Lightbourne said he would release a consent document that the actor initially signed refusing to have his son Jett sent to a local hospital. (The document cleared Lightbourne of any liability.) "They were stories that would imply that the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable in some way," Travolta said.



 

Is John Travolta Leaving Scientology?

Posted Sep 29th 2009 3:01PM By: PopEater Staff

John TravoltaAfter John Travolta took the witness stand last week and testified that his late son Jett was autistic, people wondered if The Church of Scientology would soon lose one of its high-profile members. Until then, Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston said their son had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition that causes arterial inflammation because autism is not recognized in the church.
 

Travolta Recounts Attempt to Save Son, Acknowledges He Was Autistic

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:42PM By: PopEater / Wire Services

John Travolta described Wednesday how he desperately tried to save the life of his seizure-prone son and made perhaps his first public description of the teen as autistic as he testified in the trial of two people accused of trying to blackmail him.

With his wife, Kelly Preston, looking on inside the Nassau, Bahamas courtroom, Travolta said that he performed CPR on his son after a nanny alerted him the teen had fallen ill at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama island. Jett Travolta later died from a seizure.
 

Jury Selected in Travolta Extortion Trial

Posted Sep 21st 2009 3:49PM By: PopEater / Wire Services

A jury was selected Monday for a trial that could see John Travolta take the stand against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from the movie star following his son's death in the Bahamas. Travolta is on a list of 14 witnesses against the defendants - a former Bahamas senator and an ambulance driver -- who allegedly threatened to release a document related to the treatment of his chronically ill son Jett.