Grease was the word in 1978—and it’s still going strong in 2019.
On Friday (December 13), the famous movie musicals stars, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, reprised their iconic roles as Sandy and Danny in honor of a Meet n’ Grease sing-along event at the Coral Sky Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida. Not only did Newton-John and Travolta attend the event, but they dressed as their famous characters for the first time since the film. “First time in costume since we made the movie ! So excited!!,” Newton-John penned on Instagram.
In the pic, she’s wearing a version of her good-girl Sandy look including the swingy pale yellow skirt, white blouse, and 50s-style yellow cardigan sweater. Travolta, 65, is in full T-Bird mode in a leather jacket, of course.
Travolta also shared the shot on his Instagram, along with video clips of the massive crowd enjoying the show. There’s even a moment backstage where you can hear him say, “Holy shit! This is my first experience.” His final photo is a picture of him and Newton-John in the red convertible, just like the parting shot of the movie—well, without the flying part.
According to People, Newton-John, 71, also changed into Sandy’s iconic black leggings and leather jacket later on in the evening.
One of the people embroiled in the recent college admissions scandal is Olivia Jade Giannulli, beauty influencer and daughter of Lori Loughlin. As her mother faces federal charges, Olivia Jade is also dealing with the fallout, as brands like Sephora have decided to end their partnerships with her.
Back in December 2018, Olivia Jade had released the six-color Olivia Jade x Sephora Collection Bronze & Illuminate Palette, which retailed for $28. However, early on Thursday, the palette was no longer available online. Sephora later issued a statement explaining that it was no longer working with the celebrity offspring. “After careful review of recent developments, we have made the decision to end the Sephora Collection partnership with Olivia Jade, effective immediately,” the statement read.
Sephora’s decision comes after Olivia Jade’s social media accounts had been flooded with angry comments. Many people said that the college admissions scheme showed the way in which she and her family abused their privileges, and they urged the beauty retailer to drop her.
According to Buzzfeed News, Olivia Jade’s other partnerships include Smashbox Beauty Cosmetics, Clinique, Too Faced Cosmetics, Amazon, Dolce & Gabbana, Lulus, Marc Jacobs Beauty, among many others. She had also teamed up with the printing company HP, which distanced itself from both her and Loughlin yesterday.
“HP worked with Lori Loughlin and Olivia Jade in 2017 for a one-time product campaign. HP has removed the content from its properties,” the company wrote in a statement.
Meanwhile, Loughlin—best known for her role as Aunt Becky on Full House—turned herself into federal authorities this week and appeared in court on Wednesday. She was released after posting $1 million in bail. Loughlin is accused of spending approximately $500,000 in bribes to get both of her daughters into the University of Southern California, where Olivia Jade is a freshman. On Thursday, the Hallmark Channel said it was cutting ties with Loughlin. She’s been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to the BBC.
The trailer for Olivia Wilde‘s directorial debut is here, and it will give you major Superbad vibes. Don’t get it twisted, though. It’s a hilarious, wildly original movie all its own. Titled Booksmart, the flick centers on two high school seniors, Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein, who played Julie in Lady Bird), who played it safe all four years but want to experience one crazy night before college.
“Nobody knows that we are fun,” Molly tells Amy in the trailer. “We didn’t party because we wanted to focus on school and get into good colleges—but the irresponsible people who partied also got into those colleges.”
What transpires is a night of adolescent debauchery straight out of Superbad. (It’s a fitting comparison, given that Jonah Hill is Feldstein’s older brother.) They spray some mace, rob a pizza delivery guy, do lots of joyriding, and…get arrested? “This seems excessive,” Amy says while in handcuffs. “Shotgun!”
Watch the trailer for yourself, below.
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The movie debuted at the South by Southwest Festival this week to rave reviews. Everyone on Twitter is talking about how it’s the new and improved Superbad—which is a high honor, given that movie’s place in pop culture. “This movie looks awesome. It looks like a female-lead Superbad. Which is not only the highest compliment I could give, but also what I would have LOVED as a teenager (and prob still will). @BeanieFeldstein should be in everything! @oliviawilde, direct all the things,” tweeted one person.
“Booksmart: wow. You’re going to hear ‘Superbad for girls.’ And yeah in premise. But Olivia Wilde has made a blazingly original coming-of-age buddy comedy that’s fresh and phenomenally funny,” tweeted someone else who appears to have attended the festival.
Check out some more reactions to the movie and trailer for yourself, below:
Best Actress is one of the most coveted titles to take home from the Academy Awards. And at the Oscars 2019, that honor went to Olivia Colman for her performance in The Favourite from a competitive group that included A Star Is Born‘s Lady Gaga and awards-season favorite Glenn Close of The Wife. Colman accepted her award with a speech that revealed how shocked she was to win the award—and the Internet is loving it.
Colman opened her acceptance speech for portraying Queen Anne of England with a stunned quote: “This is hilarious,” she said. In her brief but wide-ranging speech, she went on to thank many people (including: her husband, her children, and her costars) while repeating that she found her win quite “funny.”
The speech ranged from inspiring (“Any little girl who’s practicing her speech on the tele—you never know!”) to hysterical (“If I forget anybody, I’ll find you later and give you a massive snog”), all in a matter of minutes. Colman didn’t seem to expect her win, and it was a sight to behold. (You can view the entire speech on Twitter.)
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And, in an iconic conclusion, she closed her speech by blowing a kiss to Lady Gaga in the front row.
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The speech was off-the-cuff, shell-shocked, and incredibly charming. Naturally, the Internet had a lot to say about the “delightful” moment and the performance that earned it.
Some asked for more projects where Colman gives a speech, just because her surprised reaction to winning Best Actress felt so relatable.
Others loved that she gave a heartfelt call out to her fellow nominees, Lady Gaga in particular.
She may be an Academy Award winner, but make no mistake: under pressure, “Olivia Colman is all of us.”
How’s this for a meet-cute: Some 25 years ago, seven-year-old Delta Goodrem was visiting New York from her native Australia when her idol, fellow Aussie Olivia Newton-John, walked in to the same restaurant. “I was like, ‘It’s Sandy, it’s Sandy!'” Goodrem says of the iconic actress from Grease. “Olivia heard my Australian accent and walked over to ask why we were in New York. She was so sweet and said, ‘I hope I see you around tomorrow,’ so the next day I looked around the entire city trying to find her again. I did not.”
All Goodrem had to do was wait another 11 years, when Newton-John became a fan of Goodrem’s singing and acting, and sent her a letter. But it wasn’t just any letter of appreciation: Newton-John, a two-time cancer survivor who is now battling the disease for a third time, found out that Goodrem was battling cancer as well. “She said that one day I’ll understand this is a gift to give strength to people,” Goodrem says of her Hodgkin’s disease diagnosis when she was 18. “As time went on, she became my mentor, friend, and greatest influence.” In fact, in 2008 the two collaborated by writing and recording a song called “Right Here With You.”
And now, Goodrem will play the legend in Lifetime’s new television movie, Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You, airing Saturday night, February 16. “It’s full circle,” Goodrem tells Glamour. “It’s beyond special.”
Goodrem, who has developed quite the fan following in Australia, says she only recently told Newton-John about their first meeting in New York City all those years ago. “We were doing a gala together for her charity, and I told the story to the entire ballroom,” she says. “I talked about the impact that moment had, and now when I see young kids, I always think of [Olivia coming up to me]. and I approach [others] rather than sit back.”
She takes the same approach in the new Lifetime movie, which required her to portray Newton-John over more than five decades. “My first day on set was filming [the music video for] ‘Let’s Get Physical,’ and the crew was all dressed up in headbands,” Goodrem says. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, what a way to start this project!’ And then my last day on set was the scenes during Grease, so that was really fun.”
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Goodrem says she can’t help but examine every little detail of her performance, but overall she’s thrilled with the final product: “I’m really proud of it, and I can’t wait for people to watch it.” However, for the moment, at least, Newton-John won’t be one of those people. “I sent her footage throughout, and she’d be like, ‘Stop it! Stop it!'” Goodrem says, laughing. “She said she wants to watch [the finished version] in her own time so she can step back and have her own moment with it.”
But for all the Newton-John fans who do watch, Goodrem hopes the movie reminds them of their idol’s strength through good times and bad. “There’s only one Olivia Newton-John, and she’s a beautiful, unique, one-of-a-kind person,” Goodrem says. “She’s a reminder that it’s cool to be kind, and strength comes in many forms. No one can rock those Grease pants like her.”
Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You airs Saturday, February 16 on Lifetime.
Jessica Radloff is Glamour’s West Coast Editor. Follow her on Twitter at @JRadloff and on Instagram at @jessicaradloff14.
Last Thursday, just a week before the scheduled theatrical release of The Predator, starring Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, and Keegan-Michael Key, The Los Angeles Times published a report describing how a full scene had been cut from the film late in post-production after word spread that an actor featured in it is a registered sex offender. Munn reportedly led the charge to have Steven Wilder Striegel, the actor in question, removed from the film. Per the Times, after Munn learned in mid-August that Striegel pleaded guilty to and served jail time for attempting to lure a minor into a sexual relationship through the Internet in 2010 (and has since been listed on the sex offender registry), she relayed the information to 20th Century Fox, which soon made the decision to cut Striegel’s scene.
Since news broke of Striegel’s exclusion from the movie, Munn has continued to be outspoken about the cast and crew’s handling of the situation. In an interview with Vanity Fair on Saturday (September 8), she described feeling alone among her coworkers, none of whom, she said, had reached out to her in the wake of the controversy. (VF later updated the story to say that at least one costar had reached out to her; Key claimed in a statement to VF that he had “reached out to Olivia privately”; fellow cast member Sterling K. Brown penned several tweets over the weekend apologizing to Munn and praising her for “taking action.”)
“I kind of feel like I’m the one going to jail,” Munn told VF. “I didn’t go to jail, I didn’t put this guy on our set. I had this scene deleted. Thank God, honestly, that there is social media. It’s the fans and news outlets that’s confirming it to me that what I did was the right thing. If I didn’t have that feedback, I’d kind of go a little crazy thinking, ‘Why am I being treated like this?’ That’s not O.K., to feel like the bad guy.” Munn continued, “Getting a convicted sex offender out of a movie that has global reach is extremely important, but the reality of what I’ve had to go through in this process of just finding out, it’s a crazy thing. It’s like I stumbled upon something and now I’m being chased by everyone and isolated.”
She noted that she was especially disappointed when some of her cast mates gave director Shane Black (who admitted, in a statement to the Times, to knowing about his friend Striegel’s conviction before casting him in The Predator) a standing ovation at the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere last Thursday. “I looked back and I see the guys standing up, and I was just confused, because I hadn’t heard from them during the day. Everybody else was sitting down — it wasn’t like this massive standing ovation for him. I felt it was still appropriate to clap and cheer, but to actually make that gesture to stand up, especially in this moment…and privately I knew that no one reached out to me to say, ‘Are you O.K.?’ It did feel bad,” said Munn, who also told The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday that she had yet to receive a personal apology from Black for casting Striegel. (Black did release a public apology after the LA Times story was published, saying, “I apologize to all of those, past and present, I’ve let down by having Steve around them without giving them a voice in the decision.”)
At the film’s Toronto premiere, Munn told Variety that she didn’t hear from Fox between her alerting them to Striegel’s past and their cutting the scene. “When I called, [Fox] was silent for two days,” she said. “I’m not saying they weren’t working on it behind the scenes. I just didn’t hear anything about it. But I’m happy that they did, obviously, because I’m proud of the work we did in this movie. We all worked really, really hard, and I wouldn’t be able to morally stand behind this movie with this guy in there.”
“Our studio was not aware of Mr. Striegel’s background when he was hired,” Fox said in a statement to the Times. “We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors.”
