Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

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Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:02pm

Does anyone else get a weird vibe when they look at him in photos from the movie? He looks just weird and I get a creepy vibe. Don't know what it is.

Updated On: 7/3/07 at 01:02 PM

#2

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:10pm

thank you!

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#3

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:11pm

OMG yes! Mommy, I'm scared!

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#4

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:14pm

Me too, sister. I am more creeped out when I hear him speak in the role.

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#5

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:23pm

Define "creeped out."

Is it made uncomfortable by something that is out of the mainstream?

Made uncomfortable by something that is different?

Those damn differences! You just never know what to expect!

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re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:27pm

I'm with you, Chitty! I don't know if I'm going to be able to see Hairspray in theatres... Seeing pictures of Travolta in ads on the internet creeps me out enough, I don't know if I'll be able to handle him on the big screen.

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#7

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:29pm

creeped out (noun) - heebie jeebies. from the latin: heebvs jeebvs.

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#8

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:34pm

heebie jeebies - is that an STD?

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#9

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pm

Yeah that one picture of him on the main page and in someone's avatar really creeped me out.

#10

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pm

PLEASE bring back Anne of Green Gables.

#11

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pm

Which is creepier?

This:



or

This?

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#12

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:38pm

Yes, I know. The photos and clips have me skeeved out, almost so much I consider not seeing the film. He is not prominently featured in the trailers I have seen, and I think for a reason. The voice he uses is like nails on a chalkboard too-he looks like a man in dress with that fake high pitchy tone of voice. It is bad, bad, bad. I mean when Harvey or Divine played it, I was truly able to suspend my disbelief easily. What bad casting. Oh, and please don't anyone tell me I need to wait to see the movie. His mere image gives me the chills as well as his voice, I dont need to see 2 hours of it to know it bites.

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Updated On: 7/3/07 at 01:38 PM

#13

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:39pm

is that barbra streisand?

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#14

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:39pm

No, Foster, it's a movie:

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re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:40pm

HOT!

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#16

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:13pm

Going from the snippets I've seen, this could well be his worst performance ever. And I say that having seen Staying Alive...

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#17

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:18pm

Gotta go with the flow here-he's a pretty creepy looking and sounding man acting as a woman. I'm not interested in seeing this film either. I'd rather remember Divine. AND Ricki Lake as Tracy.

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#18

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:19pm

Yeah, the picture that was featured on the home page of BWW of Travolta as Edna scared the crap out of me. I don't understand how the creative team let that bad make-up job show up on film.

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#19

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:21pm

The early reviews are positive for Johnny T however.

Still, yikes!

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#20

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:22pm

That's cause they don't know no better. Sigh.

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#21

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:25pm

I'm with you, Jane. Divine was simply, well, divine. I'm a big fan of the original film, and when I first saw it I didn't realize it was a woman. I'm not at all familiar with the musical, but I shudder to think about this movie, partly because of Travolta. Someone once mentioned that he looks like an oversized Cabbage Patch doll with sad puppy eyes and I think that about hits the nail on the head.

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#22

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:27pm

Travolta doesn't make his first appearance for another 10 minutes or so, as Tracy's overly protective, sheltered mother, Edna, but once you get over the transformation, not to mention that disconcertingly odd accent that sounds something like a cross between Carol Channing and Cher, he wins you over.

Outfitted with noticeably more curvaceous padding than predecessors Divine and Harvey Fierstein, Travolta still manages to pull off some nimble moves that are somehow reminiscent of those dancing hippos in Walt Disney's "Fantasia."


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9451

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#23

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:30pm

poor Johnny's eyes are close set to begin with. double the size of his head, and he looks like a ragdoll sewn by the blind.

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#24

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:39pm

or a cabbage patch doll left out to rot in the sun.

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#25

re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray

Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:50pm

This is supportive mom's daughter. I totally agree with all of your posts. Does anyone else notice the wierd southern accent he tries to use? What's that about?