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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Man-on-man Hollywood action: Travolta honours Kirk Douglas the best way he knows how

Remember when John Travolta was photographed kissing a man on the steps of his private plane, and he laughed off the inferences drawn in some quarters by saying that he always kissed his male friends? No? We've talked about your attitude before. Can you PLEASE stop frittering your time away on the comment pages.

Anyway, here's Kirk Douglas becoming the latest hapless celebrity to be co-opted into Travolta's hilarious defence, as the Hairspray star presents him with an award before lunging at the 81-year-old and allowing the two most famous dimples in Los Angeles to flatten sweatily against each other.

Kirk looks that little bit startled, as well he might, perhaps envisioning a scenario developing in the coming months in which Hollywood's entire male population is forced to pucker up for the muscular Scientologist, one straight guy at a time, like so many Spartacuses standing up and declaring "I'M John Travolta's platonic male friend!" "No, I'M John Travolta's platonic male friend!"

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