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It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
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"Here he comes (back?) again: Travolta's trick was to make us like him. Now we can't stop" Katrina Onstad, with reporting by Elizabeth Levine. National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: June 6, 2001

 

John Travolta

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