Movie Score Card

December, 1992

Michael Madsen, 34, is sensational as an amoral sadist who cuts off a cop's ear in Reservoir Dogs (see this month's review). But it was the role of Susan Sarandon's beau in Thelma & Louise that really put his career in gear. "That bounced me out of the bad-guy stereotype," says Madsen, who has three pictures backed up: Fixing the Shadow (with Charlie Sheen—"I'm the guy he's trying to bust in a motorcycle gang. It's actually based on an article called Undercover Angel that ran in P...