Film producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron spent 14 months talking Travolta into wearing a fat suit and dresses to sing and dance the role. "They swore to me that if I committed and did it, it would be rewarding," the 53-year-old actor said.
If Travolta took some coaxing to get in touch with his feminine side, Wyclef Jean has leapt at the opportunity to help his motherland.
The Haitian hip-hop star is giving an open-air concert near Port-au-Prince's presidential palace Saturday, along with Senegalese-American singer Akon.
Named Haiti's goodwill ambassador by President Rene Preval, Jean is intent on changing his country's international image.
"Speaking of change, we need big foreign stars to come over and discover our country, see how beautiful it is and find out what's happening here," Jean told reporters after he and Akon arrived in the Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Americas, on Friday.
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