John Travolta, Prayers and Memories

Published by Claudia Meydrech under Dating,Husband,Movies,Music,TV Show Memory on January 5, 2009

Our thoughts and prayers go out to someone who has made MANY a movie, but for most, the greatest accomplishment is, at least should be, the making of a family.  I can’t even imagine how painful it must be to lose a child, one who you have had to take care of in special ways because of his special needs, and then have to do so in the spotlight of the press, the media.  I will leave the death of John Travolta’s son to the media, and just share a fond memory.

We all know that John Travolta made tons of movies, but the one that hits home personally is one of his early movies, “Saturday Night Fever”, oh, and wasn’t he in “Welcome Back, Kotter”? The TV Show?  Yes indeed, sorry for the senior moment, I just googled it, and he was. 

Anyway, back to Saturday Night Fever…that was back in the “disco” days….are you “old” enough to remember “discotechs”?  When I started dating my Colorado Mountain husband, who had only been in NJ for about a year at the time I met him, he had only been on a couple dates after his move here before I met him, and the movie he took his date to (she was someone I went to HS with) was “Saturday Night Fever”.  Now I confess, I have never seen the movie in the theaters, it was later movies by Travolta, at least a few, that I liked…but knowing he had seen it, I had to watch it on TV at least once.  You know how it is when you’re first dating someone, and you just HAVE to know all the details of whoever they dated before…it was during those times.  Gosh that seems so long ago, and it is!  30+ years!

Here’s the classic clip from the movie for you, enjoy if you like this sort of thing, and even if you don’t, continue to pray for the Travolta family.