Juliannne Moore is cast as Alaska's presidential hopeful in a recreation of 2008 election race

John Travolta has been added to the cast of 'Expendables 2'.

Starring as the swaggering, leather jacket-wearing heartthrob Kenickie, alongside John Travolta, in the film version of the hit musical Grease brought Jeff Conaway global fame. Cinema audiences were quick to learn of Kenickie's two biggest loves – fast motors and fast women – in an early scene where he has sex in the back of his car with his girlfriend, Rizzo (Stockard Channing). Kenickie is a leading light in the high-school T-Birds gang of greasers and sidekick to Danny Zuko (Travolta), whose rekindling of a summer romance with Sandy Olsen (Olivia Newton-John) is the central story in the 1978 film. Conaway had already played Danny in the stage musical on Broadway but had to make way on screen for Travolta, who was hot property following his starring role in the film Saturday Night Fever.

Talking Football: Everton are 15th in the table and wondering when their season will get going. Last year they came good after Christmas; this time it looks much bleaker

A new club anthem mixes Paganini with dreamy vocals and dance beats. But how radical is it? Chris Mugan explores the chequered history of the pop-classical crossover

Black hearts in Hollywood

Two people accused of attempting to extort $25m (£16m) from John Travolta following the death of his son are to walk free after a judge in the Bahamas dismissed the case against them, apparently at the actor's request.

Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the death of his teenage son in the Bahamas were dropped by a judge today.

If you ask me, the news from "fashion industry experts" – ie. a couple of PR girls with time on their hands, God bless them – that women spend more on their "holiday wardrobe" than the actual holiday itself is silly and ridiculous and laughable and also probably true because, as your pesky Pre-Holiday Brain always puts it: "OK, you're not a bejewelled sort of person now, but who is to say you won't be by the time you reach your destination?"

And the same old fleas.

The stars of the 1970s and 1980s understood the allure of sex and violence. But they also knew how to perform, says Geoffrey Macnab

It is 1978 in Chile, and Raul Peralta is obsessed with John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever disco king, regularly leading an amateur realisation of the dance sequences in a local bar.

Actor to take stand in Bahamas against paramedics accused of blackmail

In this bleakly comic drama, Chile under Pinochet's dictatorship is seen through the eyes of an oddball whose obsession with John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever' takes a devastating turn