John Travolta meets fans in Saudi Arabia to celebrate cinema ban lift
By Reuters
17 December 2017 |
6:00 am
More than 2,000 fans welcomed Hollywood actor John Travolta at the Apex Convention Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Friday, days after the country lifted a decades-long ban on cinemas.
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