# Travolta in drag?????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917 "2007-06-29T13:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/41 "2007-07-01T21:23:15Z")
Sorry - I shouldn’t have brought the medication topic up, except to say I will avoid movies by Travolta. (actually he mentioned it first). Anyway, for the record, Walloon, I personally know more than a dozen folks who have been helped to live normal lives by the medications you mentioned & who have/will never shoot anyone. And all the people you mentioned were probably on aspirin too. so what. End hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/42 "2007-07-02T01:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Travolta’s opinion is not without some factual evidence. The antidepressant Luvox, which has been linked to violent and suicidal behavior, was found in Eric Harris’ system during an autopsy after the Columbine shootings. Kip Kinkel, the 15-year old Oregon student who opened fire in his school cafeteria in 1998, had been on the antidepressant Prozac. Jeff Weise, the Red Lake Indian Reservation school shooter from 2005, was under the influence of Prozac. The _Times_ reported that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui was taking a psychoactive medication. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t it also reported that Cho, although prescribed a psychoactive medication, hadn’t been taking it? Just because someone had a prescription for these medications doesn’t mean they were taking them as prescribed. ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/43 "2007-07-02T06:42:49Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Travolta’s opinion is not without some factual evidence. The antidepressant Luvox, which has been linked to violent and suicidal behavior, was found in Eric Harris’ system during an autopsy after the Columbine shootings. Kip Kinkel, the 15-year old Oregon student who opened fire in his school cafeteria in 1998, had been on the antidepressant Prozac. Jeff Weise, the Red Lake Indian Reservation school shooter from 2005, was under the influence of Prozac. The _Times_ reported that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui was taking a psychoactive medication. [/QUOTE] Just a guess, but maybe those kiddos were taking psychotropic meds because they were crazy to begin with, since usually psychotropics aren’t administered to guys who are fine and dandy. I knew a guy with a heart condition who started taking heart medicine. He died of a heart problem. Travolta thinks that his heart medicine killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/44 "2007-07-02T13:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] According to John Waters’ book “Shock Value” Divine prefered “shim.” [/QUOTE] According to John Waters on Loveline just a few months ago, the gentleman known as Devine only did the drag thing when filming. He referred to them as his “work clothes”. Although he was gay, which has nothing to do with cross dressing. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/45 "2007-07-03T19:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mesquite-oh] Lemme get this straight: someone decided to make a movie based on a play that was based on a movie? Has that been done before? Sounds stupid to me. Hairspray the movie wasn’t done that long ago, it still comes on cable a lot. [/QUOTE] On the Henry Rollins show on IFC he interviewed John Waters and asked him about it. He said no one asked for his consultation on it and he doesn’t plan on seeing it, but that the royalty checks will be nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/46 "2007-07-03T23:23:00Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] Sorry - I shouldn’t have brought the medication topic up, except to say I will avoid movies by Travolta. (actually he mentioned it first). Anyway, for the record, Walloon, I personally know more than a dozen folks who have been helped to live normal lives by the medications you mentioned & who have/will never shoot anyone. And all the people you mentioned were probably on aspirin too. so what. End hijack. [/QUOTE] You’re glib, **well he’s back** , you’re glib! Have you studied the history of psychotherapy? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/47 "2007-07-04T15:46:45Z")
This just in - according to IMDB today Travolta says there is nothing gay about the movie “Hairspray” and also that Scientology is a very tolerant faith. Right. (PS - I’m too glib to tell you just what I’ve studied. But I will say my M.S. degree and $1.00 will get me a cup of coffee.) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/48 "2007-07-04T16:02:41Z")
Just $1.00 for a cup of coffee? That’s a good deal! Hey, everybody, there’ll be a Dopefest at the diner nearest well he’s back’s home. Everybody bring lots of dollar bills. Your one-dollar bill plus well he’s back’s M.S. gets you a cup of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/49 "2007-07-04T16:12:01Z")
I didn’t say it was a good cup. But I’m tolerant (End 2nd hijack?) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/50 "2007-07-04T18:15:52Z")
It’s one of those tiny ketchup-holding cups, isn’t it? Will you amuse us with BS from your M.S. studies while we drink? ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/51 "2007-07-05T03:15:32Z")
Waitress! These dopers would like some BS with their glib. And they’re complaining about the size of the cups… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917/52 "2007-07-05T04:33:10Z")
Every time I look at Travolta in his _Hairspray_ get-up, I think he looks kind of … hungry … for human flesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travolta-in-drag/409917.md?page=2)