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...stars. He cajoles, he flatters, but he produces. "Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
...Travolta is one of Isaacson's major projects. The actor will soon be getting ready for Far from Over, or Saturday Night Fever III. A self-described "reluctant matador" when it comes to exercise, Travolta has developed some unaesthetic handles around his hips. "When I'm not being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention...
...movie was no wow, Travolta's body was. The rebuilt dancer persuaded his trainer to go West and put up some of the money to get Isaacson started in a 1,200-sq.-ft. studio that features $50,000 worth of equipment and, no less important, wall-to-wall mirrors for checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets...
...JOHN TRAVOLTA EVER TRY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY...
...meeting with him once. He wanted to know what Be Cool [the sequel to Get Shorty] was about. I said I didn't know yet. So after I finished the book, I kept asking my agent if Travolta had read it, and finally my agent said, "You call him." So after I got his number and he called back after about four days, I said, "Did you read it yet?" He said, "No, but hey, I just bought a 707." So then we had to talk about the plane, you know...