Travolta

Fever dance star

Travolta is a surname, most famously associated with American actor John Travolta, whose career-defining roles in *Saturday Night Fever* and *Grease* made him a cultural icon of the 1970s disco era.

The name sometimes appears as shorthand for a particular style of dancing or retro cool associated with those films.

He hit the dance floor doing his best Travolta.

career

Hollywood

American film industry center

Hairspray · Michael · pilot · aviation · Oscar-nominated · comeback · 1970s · 1990s

screen-presence

charismatic

Compellingly attractive to others

  • magneticAttracting iron or attention
  • charmAttractive personal quality
  • swaggerConfident, boastful manner

dancing · smile · blue-eyes · cool · iconic · energetic · entertaining · versatile · heartthrob

PulpFiction

Tarantino

nonlinear · neo-noir · dialogue · 1994 · Cannes · comeback · gangster · soundtrack

Grease

Rizzo

drive-in · 1950s · musical · doo-wop · hotrod · nostalgia · Frenchy

SaturdayNightFever

disco

Seventies dance music

nightlife · Annette · polyester · choreography · dancefloor

Opposites
celebrity status and fame

Travoltaanonymous

Of unknown origin

character actor · nobody · unpopular · unsuccessful · unknown

career trajectory

Travoltaone-hit wonder

Artist famous for one song

Meryl Streep · Tom Hanks · Daniel Day-Lewis · never-was · consistent

performance style and persona

TravoltaPhilip Seymour Hoffman

Paul Giamatti · wooden · stiff · Steve Buscemi · William H. Macy

Phrases
Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G