Movie Score Card

September, 1990

After a bout of cross-country telephone tag, busy John Turturro woke from a nap in his temporary West Coast digs to discuss why he has been named one of the hottest actors extant (by consensus, and by Rolling Stone last May). Soon to be seen in State of Grace, Turturro flew west to play the title role in Barton Fink ("I'm a Broadway writer going to Hollywood back in the Thirties") for the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel. In the Coens' imminent gangland drama, Miller's Crossing, he fires...