Minutes before showtime, Oprah drops by the greenroom to say hi to the man who will escort her onto the stage for her final season premiere— John Travolta. They practice their dance steps for their big entry. "I don't know of another person that I would have rather stood there [with] as we opened the season," she says. "What better person than somebody who we've had so much fun with, who I really like and who likes me. It's real. It's all real."

Watch John run through his moves with a producer