The newest addition to John Travolta’s family is the puppy who made its television debut at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. During the ceremony, the In Memoriam segment featured a special tribute to late comedy legend Betty White. It included Jamie Lee Curtis holding a puppy named Mac and Cheese on the stage and encouraging viewers to adopt a pet to honor White, a known animal advocate.
“She was not only a Golden Girl, she was a legend who brightened every room,” Curtis said. “She walked in and brought a smile to the faces of all who watched her on the screen, and day in and day out for almost a century, she was a woman who cared not just for her two-legged friends, but for animals just like this.”
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Curtis added, “So, the greatest gift you could give Betty White is to open your heart and home and adopt a rescue dog, just like Mac and Cheese here from Paw Works. So, thank you, Betty, for being a friend to us all.”
Hollywood star John Travolta and his family noticed that Mac and Cheese was in need of a home, and they were the ones to give the rescue dog its forever home. The Pulp Fiction star took to Instagram to reveal that they’d adopted the puppy by posting a picture of himself alongside his son with their new family member. As Travolta says, it was his son Ben’s idea, and the boy looks especially happy to have just gotten a new best friend.
John Travolta Reunited With Pulp Fiction Co-Stars at the Oscars
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John Travolta was also present at the Academy Awards that night. He appeared on the stage as an award presenter to reunite with his Pulp Fiction co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Naturally, Travolta and Thurman danced as a way of paying homage to the iconic scene from Pulp Fiction. The trio also revealed an Oscar winner by opening the briefcase, referring to the mysterious briefcase at the center of the film.
Travolta has also reunited with his Pulp Fiction and Look Who’s Talking co-star Bruce Willis to film the upcoming action movie Paradise City. The movie was filmed before the recent revelation that Willis had to step away from his acting career due to his struggles with aphasia. In the film, Willis plays a renegade bounty hunter seeking vengeance on a Hawaiian criminal kingpin, played by Travolta. Praya Lundberg also stars. The film does not yet have an official release date set at this time.
Travolta’s other recent roles include Gotti, Speed Kills, and The Poison Rose. He also had a prominent role in Fred Durst’s thriller The Fanatic, featuring the actor playing a psychotic stalker who’s obsessed with a major celebrity (Devon Sawa). Though the film bombed, many critics offered praise to Travolta for his performance, as the role was very different from most of the characters Travolta typically plays in his movies.
