According to Barry Diller, John Travolta backed out of starring in American Gigolo because of the film’s “somewhat gay subtext.” “He slumped down in a chair in Michael’s office, started to cry and ...

Barry Diller claims John Travolta exited ‘American Gigolo’ because of the “somewhat gay subtext”. John, 71, was originally tapped to take the leading role in the 1980 crime thriller about a male ...

John Travolta’s reasons for pulling out of the movie American Gigolo in the late 1970s are apparently up for debate. In his new memoir, Who Knew?, former Paramount CEO Barry Diller claimed that ...

The legendary filmmaker, who is being honored with a retrospective and lifetime achievement award at the Lucca Film Fest, on how he would like to be remembered, still writing screenplays "on spec" and ...