Sean Combs to ‘Love in Vain’

Praised by critics for his role as a death row inmate in “Monster’s Ball,� Sean Combs is taking on a musical role, that of Delta blues guitarist Robert Johnson in the HBO movie, “Love in Vain.�

Johnson, who died in 1938 at age 27, was said to have made a pact with the devil to be the greatest guitar player who ever lived. Combs has been playing guitar and he is also heading to the South where he will “work on a farm, learn about sharecropping and picking cotton.�