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...Travolta In 2008? In the new film A Love Song for Bobby Long, John Travolta plays a startlingly gray-haired literature professor on the skids [Nov. 8]. The actor is used to physical transformations. In 1998 TIME reported on how he turned himself into a familiar President to play Governor Jack Stanton in the movie Primary Colors [March...
...been good. Schumacher was set to direct Phantom in 1990, with the stage show's original stars Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, who was then married to Lloyd Webber. When they divorced, the film fell apart, and despite rumors casting various stars in the main roles - Antonio Banderas, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Keira Knightly - Warner Bros., which held the screen rights, dithered. Meanwhile, the producers of the stage show, who were overseeing its 22-country rollout, worried about killing theater trade if the film was bad. When Lloyd Webber's Evita barely turned a profit in 1996, Phantom seemed doomed...
...part in the John Travolta movie A Civil Action persuaded the genial college senior to try acting...
...John Travolta's raven mane is nearly as integral to his appeal as his dance-floor-ready hips and dimpled chin. But in A Love Song for Bobby Long, a drama set in New Orleans and due next month, the Pulp Fiction star goes gray to portray an alcoholic literature professor befriended by SCARLETT JOHANSSON. This is no silver-haired sophisticate like Tom Cruise's assassin in this summer's Collateral. "Bobby Long is bruised fruit," says Travolta, 50, of his character. "Kind of decrepit." As for the premature aging, no biggie. "It's never been an issue...
PEOPLE: Ashlee Simpson's snafu; John Travolta...