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# John Travolta relishes playing Mafia boss
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## Actor ready to star in 'fascinating' tale of New York Mafia boss John
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Gotti but mobster's son snaps when asked about victims of his criminal reign.
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9:20AM BST 13 Apr 2011
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John Travolta says his forthcoming role as infamous New York mafia boss John
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Gotti is "the most interesting untold story in America".
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The 57-year-old actor, who will play late Gambino crime family boss Gotti,
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joined director Nick Cassavetes and the mobster's son John 'Junior' Gotti to
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reveal details about the film _Gotti: Three Generations_.
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Travolta said: "This is probably the most interesting untold story in this
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country. What a character to approach!" The film, also starring Joe Pesci and
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possibly Lindsay Lohan, will be shot later this year in New York.
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Travolta, wearing a green tie and his hair close-cropped, called Gotti, who
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died in prison in 2002, an old school mafioso who lived by "a moral code."
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When a reporter asked how families of people killed, injured, robbed or
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otherwise victimised during Gotti senior's reign would feel about the
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Hollywood treatment, the younger Gotti snapped: "In this script, everybody's a
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victim."
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02 Jan 2009
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01 Nov 2010
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09 Jan 2009
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14 Jan 2010
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In his long and bloody career as head of one of the historic five New York
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Italian mafia families, Gotti senior won public sympathy for his stylish
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appearance and wit. He was known as the "Dapper Don" and also the "Teflon Don"
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for his longtime ability to beat federal prosecutors in court.
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"I like the glamour he had," Travolta said. "He charmed the press, he charmed
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his family."
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The dark side, said Travolta, who famously played a laconic gunman in_ Pulp
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Fiction_, included "the paranoia, the fear, the putting the family at risk."
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To research the part, Travolta plans to study as much original video footage
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as possible and to "understand how a syndicate like this works."
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Pointing into the hotel room where journalists crammed in with dozens of Gotti
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family members and associates, Travolta said "there's a plethora of knowledge
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here that I tap."
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John "Junior," who himself has beaten four federal prosecutions on
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racketeering, murder and mob charges, said he wanted his father to be
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portrayed fairly. "My father was an icon. He was a man larger than life," he
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said.
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Film reps would not reveal who is being cast to play Gotti's son. Although not
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as flamboyant as his father, he also sports the dapper look and turned up to
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the press conference in a grey suit and open-necked shirt.
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The film, due for release in 2012, will co-star Pesci as Gotti's deputy Angelo
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Ruggiero, and possibly also Lohan, who attended the press conference alongside
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a row of bejeweled Gotti family members.
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At a subsequent photo shoot in which baying paparazzi pushed and shoved for a
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better angle, blonde-haired Lohan posed next to Gotti's daughter Victoria,
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fueling speculation that the in-and-out-of-trouble starlet may see playing the
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mob heiress as a way to resurrect her career.
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Producer Marc Fiore praised Lohan's acting skills and confirmed she was in the
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mix.
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"I'm in talks to have Lindsay in the movie. Nothing has been finalized, but we
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are in talks," he said.
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Travolta's 11-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu, is slated to play a young Angel
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Gotti, John Gotti's daughter.
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