I was the one who got Travolta to kiss Olivia Newton John smack on the lips at the Grease premiere in ‘78.
Back in 1978 I was one of only a few photographers photographing the Grease opening night party at Paramount Studios. Travolta was so young and photogenic. The next morning, I hustled these photos out to magazines all over the world!
I am blown away by how popular my photo of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John at the Grease party in ‘78 has been on tumblr! It was just me John, Livy, a few hundred invited guests, three publicists and one other photographer shooting over my shoulder.
I am not sure how I got Olivia Newton John to kiss John Travolta at the Grease party back in 1978. The studio spent a fortune and there were shrimp the size of Hummers! I couldn’t of asked for more. I got great photos and I gorged myself with all kinds of free food and drink!
When I was a kid I got invited to the Grease premier and party back in 1978. There was a swat team of publicist lurking around this table with Olivia Newton John and Travolta at the Grease party in 1978. They were watching every move, but I just had to get the ash tray and the smelly cigarettes in my photo!
While I have a captive audience, check out my new coffee table book “Like It Was Yesterday”. My limited edition prints are available at Rock Paper Photo.
When I was a kid back in 1978 I got invited to take photos at the Grease party on Paramount Studios back lot. Everyone was there including John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, of course. I had no idea about the magnitude of this film and how it would be revered decades later. At the time, Travolta lived in my building at 100 S Dohney, but I never saw him. I think that he was in the Penthouse and I was in apartment # 716. The building is still there and I drive by it all the time and reminisce of those magical years.
I got John Travolta to kiss Olivia Newton John at the Grease party in 1978. This was over 30 years before TMZ!
