"I always feel she is with me," John Travolta told PEOPLE in 1977 ... alongside Travolta as his mother in 1976's The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. She had had a mastectomy two years before her ...

In 1976 ABC televised a John Travolta made-for-television drama called The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Travolta's character, Tod Lubitch, was a composite of David and Ted DeVita, a Washington ...

But Winkler had his reasons for turning it down, leaving the door open for John ... on "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" and Stigwood on "Saturday Night Fever." For the latter, Travolta received ...