Actor John Travolta writes family time into every film contract by demanding his work day ends at 6 pm. The Hairspray star and his wife, fellow actress Kelly Preston, have two children, Jett, 15, and Ella, seven.He says, "When I do a movie in L.A., I'm home by 7 pm and I'm there until the kids go to bed. Then Kelly and I have our time together and then I work out."I also keep my weekends free for them." Travolta resurrected his failing career when he appeared in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Since this the actor has had a string of hits including Get Shorty, Face Off and more recently Wild Hogs.He is currently staring in the re-make of Broadway hit Harispray and twenty nine years after Grease, the highest grossing musical, in an all singing, all dancing movie.

After the awful Staying Alive it was believe that John Travolta would never return to a musical after turning down roles in Chicargo and Phantom of the Opera.

After considering this role for fourteen months Travolta appears as Edna Turnblad a shut in 1960s housewife.

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