After months of speculation, Variety has confirmed that John Travolta will star as John Gotti in the biopic Gotti: Three Generations, a Nick Cassavetes project based on information from an as-yet-to-be-published, tell-all book written by Gotti’s son, John Jr.. I thought about just leaving this banner picture here (via ThePlaylist), as it seems to sum up the project better than words ever could. But against my better comedic judgment, I feel like this brings up an interesting issue.
On the one hand it seems weird that actors like Winona Ryder, Jonah Hill, Jon Stewart, Natalie Portman, etc. don’t just go by their real last names, Horowitz, Feldstein, Leibowitz, and Hershlag, since it’s not like anyone’s surprised that they’re Jewish. Or that actors like John Travolta and Kevin Spacey refuse to admit they’re gay, when pretty much everyone already knows that they are. Especially when Hollywood seems like the last place you’d face discrimination for being gay or Jewish. But then something like this happens, and it makes you wonder if a family of mobsters would be so hot on John Travolta playing the old boss if he didn’t at least have plausible deniability about the whole chugging wieners thing. Sure, I don’t care, and probably you don’t care, and no one in Hollywood cares, but if The Sopranos has taught us anything, it’s that mafia guys still kinda do care. It makes me wonder if maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on Kevin Spacey for not just coming out of the closet, which in turn makes me laugh because I just typed “hard on.”
Maybe they’re right to be secretive? I don’t know, food for thought. And yes, you’re right, I should’ve just made a “johnnycakes” joke.
Man, they even have the same facial hair.
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One Night in Howard’s Breach?
Suddenly the practice of hanging snitches from a meat hook makes perfect sense to me.
I kinda take offense that you make parallels between being gay and being Jewish. The two are not the same.
One is a crime against nature, an unholy perversion and the other means you like cock.
Both of them LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE musicals, though.
For the record: it’s totally cool for me to make jew jokes, some of my best friends are gay jews.
The Astroglide Don.
I bet he’s excited to give Gotti’s grandkids bronzer tips.
Travolta can break out his old Vinny accent and deliver the catchphrase that made him famous:
Down ma troat, wit’ a rubba’d chote.
Frank Vincent has a role in this movie or GTFO!
Johnny Cakes made the greatest jam glaze for ass spreading.
“Sammy the Balls Gravano?”
/fuck, I got nothin
I look forward to the avant-garde, neomodern potrayal of John Gotti as a homosexual. John Gaytti? “The Strap-on Don”? Egh, either ways you can all pretend to be straight but in the end, John will Travoltya….he’ll do you in the ass.
Before this I heard that Travolta is starring in an action thriller based in the world of MMA called “No Guts No Glory Hole”
Word is Travolta is going to research the role by spending a few weeks hanging around prison showers.
His meatballs are so spicey! They really pop in your mouth.
I think people question if he’s gay because every movie he’s been in for the last 20 years has sucked dicks.
“Hey, Johnny the Tupe, I heard ya got whacked by the Xenu family.”
“No, I’s just with Tommy the Closet, working ‘a part’. Er, working ON a part.”