To answer your first question: He looks like Barney. A huge, flesh-colored Barney. Or maybe like Barbra Streisand after a Botox overdose. Actually, there are times in “Hairspray ” when John Travolta seems on the verge of being eaten by his fat suit, so swaddled is the actor in padding, hair, make up, and structural engineering. I haven’t even mentioned …
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