A CIVIL ACTION II: REMAND AND RETRIAL All the talk about "Be Cool" overtly referencing Travolta's prior work (by the way, the Chili Palmer character is based on Chazz Palminteri, right?), made me wonder why such a large part of Travolta's career consists of sequels. In addition to "Be Cool," there's the classic Stayin' Alive, which is definitely in the top-5 of the "tough guy from the neighborhood tries to make it as a shirtless headbanded Broadway dancer" genre, plus Jesus Christ It Won't Shut Up Too and For the Love of God Make it Stop Talking Now.
Travolta, however, is just a pretender to the throne of Your King of Sequels. Look at that -- two Star Wars sequels, two Indiana Jones sequels (with a third in the works), a Jack Ryan sequel, and for good measure an uncredited cameo in the American Graffiti sequel, a reprise of a long-running television show, and -- omitted from the IMDB resume -- an appearance as "himself" in Hearts of Darkness, a feature documentary about another movie he did.
Not counting Sylvia Kristel in the Emmanuelle series, does anybody else even come close?
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