At the recent press day for Hairspray, John Travolta put to rest rumors that his work in the film — a colorful, toe-tapping musical based on a stage musical based in turn on John Waters’ 1988 film — might have inspired a desire to return to roots, so to speak:

“You know, honestly, I did stage from the time when I was 12
to 26 years old — even when I was in film — and I know it’s sacrilegious to say,
but I did my 13 or 14 years on stage,” Travolta relates. “It’s a lot of work in a different way.
Movies are hard, there’s no doubt about it, but then they’re over. You commit
to a year-long run, or a two-year run of a Broadway show, and you want to be digging
ditches at the end of it, because it’s the same show, same dialogue, same
everything — and after about six months you run out of ideas. It’s take 500,
and you don’t know what to do with it.”