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вЂњSome of those guys, they have no lives,вЂќ he told Cohn. вЂњAccording to Tu Sweet,вЂќ Cohn later wrote, вЂњthe craze had started in black gay clubs, then progressed to straight blacks and gay whites and from there to mass consumption-Latinos in the Bronx, West Indians on Staten Island, and, yes, Italians in Brooklyn.вЂќ In l975, black dancers like Tu Sweet were not welcome in those Italian clubs nonetheless, he liked the dancers there-their passion and their moves.

On an icy winter night in 1975, Cohn had made his first trip to Bay Ridge with a disco dancer called Tu Sweet, who would serve as his Virgil. While they waited, Stigwood and his lieutenants began to look around for a new property.

Five years earlier, Stigwood had auditioned the actor-then just 17-for Jesus Christ Superstar, and though Ted Neeley got the job, Stigwood had penciled himself a note on a yellow pad: вЂњThis kid will be a very big star.вЂќД«ut StigwoodвЂ™s option for Grease stipulated that production could not begin before the spring of 1978, because the musical was still going strong.

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Stigwood wanted Travolta to star in the movie version of Grease, the long-running Broadway musical (in which Travolta had already appeared as Doody, one of the T-Bird gang members, in a road company). So, a lot of us thought to pay a million dollars for Vinnie Barbarino is going to make us a laughingstock.вЂќ вЂњEveryone thought it was madness,вЂќ says Oakes, вЂњbecause nobody had ever made the transition from television to movie stardom. By this time he was running RSO Records, which boasted Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees among its roster of pop stars. Oakes, then in his mid-20s, had worked for the Beatles and had once been Paul McCartneyвЂ™s assistant. That was the talk in Hollywood, Bill Oakes remembers, on September 25, 1976, when his boss held a lavish press conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel to announce that the Robert Stigwood Organisation-RSO-had just signed John Travolta to a million-dollar contract to star in three films. Robert Stigwood, the 42-year-old Australian impresario known as вЂњthe Daryl Zanuck of pop,вЂќ was out of his mind.

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