ACT YOUR AGE

John Travolta, 54
The Ride: In his 1977 breakout performance in Saturday Night Fever, Travolta strutted down a Brooklyn street to Stayin’ Alive, and he’s been proving the song right ever since. After big hits with Grease, Urban Cowboy and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, he earned himself a reservoir of goodwill in roles that exploited his humility and physical verve.
The Slide: That reservoir? It’s been lowered by such scientology propaganda as Battlefield Earth and cash-ins like Wild Hogs. Next, Travolta costars with Robin Williams as friends who unexpectedly find themselves caring for 7-year-old twins. Ummm.
The U-turn: He still has the moves. Put him in a smart, small-canvas physical comedy where his body can communicate as much as his face and voice. Give him a great biopic, preferably of a song-and-dance man.

Michelle Pfeiffer Age, 49
The Ride: Pfeiffer rocked the sensuous bee-stung pout back when Angelina Jolie was still tearing the heads off Barbies. She has proved she can also be funny (Married to the Mob), vulnerable (The Age of Innocence) and tough as a red-lacquered fingernail (Scarface). Her The Fabulous Baker Boys was a slinky triumph, and still her best work.
The Slide: Pfeiffer’s latest films Hairspray and Stardust. Her most recent film, the direct-to-video I Could Never Be Your Woman, finds her delivering a tart and cathartic critique of Hollywood’s hypocritical cruelty toward ageing women.
The U-turn: Pfeiffer deserves to play with others her own age. How luscious it would be to see her work with such new Hollywood classicists as Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, Breach) or Michael Clayton’s Tony Gilroy.
-Ann Hornaday(LAT-WP)

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