Travolta To Visit CdA For Sisters’ Play

John Travolta vividly remembers the Christmas he was 8 years old. It was 1962 and his sister Ellen, 14 years his senior, was already a working actress. For Christmas that year, she bought her already plane-crazed youngest sibling a round-trip airline ticket from Newark to Philadelphia. It was his first flight – they flew to Philly for lunch, then returned that evening in time for Ellen Travolta to go on stage in a production of “Gypsy.” In a recent telephone interview from Vancouver, B.C., where he was on location filming a movie, the Oscar-nominated star said it was the best gift he’d ever received. “I thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” he told The Spokesman-Review. “It was that gift that triggered my passion for flying at a stellar level, and now it’s my second career, all because of Ellen’s generous gift”/ Carolyn Lamberson , SR. More here . (AP photo: John Travolta hopes to return to see his sister Ellen perform in “I Remember Christmas” in Coeur d’Alene)