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Article: Travolta plays an old drunk at Venice Film Festival
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- September 2, 2004
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TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-02-2004
Dateline: VENICE, Italy
One-time disco demon John Travolta attempted a monumentally acrobatic move in a movie screened at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, stretching his talents to play an irascible, boozing southerner in "A Love Song for Bobby Long."
He grabs a guitar and wails out folksy southern ballads. He hobbles around on a rotting toe, quoting poetry. He even has his hair dyed white for the role.
"We're admitting to our age finally, huh?" the 50-year-old actor joked, when asked if there was a trend in the silvery locks worn by him _ and by Tom Cruise in another film at Venice, "Collateral."
Travolta's picture, directed ...