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John Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Men of Respect (1991). He has appeared in over sixty movies, and is well known for his ability to effortlessly change both his demeanour and physique.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his MFA at the Yale School of Drama. He worked as an extra in Raging Bull (1980).
John Turturro created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 1983. He repeated it the following year Off-Broadway and won an OBIE Award.
Spike Lee liked Turturro's performance in
Five Corners so much that he chose to cast him in Do the Right Thing, in which he played the explosive racist Pino. This movie initiated a long-standing collaboration between the famous director and John Turturro.
Turturro was the producer, director and actor in Illuminata (1999).
Actress Aida Turturro is John Turturro's cousin.
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MoviesYou Don't Mess With the Zohan
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Mariah Carey, Shelley Berman, Sayed
...
Review:
Given the missed opportunities for sharpening silliness with
satire, it's impossible not to mess with the Zohan. There's a risky
idea in the script cooked up by star Adam Sandler and his
co-writers, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow: What if Sandler played a
Mossad commando named Zohan who fakes his death and comes to New
York to live his dream of making the world "silky smooth" by
cutting and styling hair? And what if the only job he could get was
working in a Brooklyn salon run by a Palestinian babe (Emmanuelle
Chriqui)?
It's the Middle East crisis played for laughs, and it gets a few
until the movie backs off its bolder notions. That's a shame,
because Sandler, buff, blow-dried and Borat-accented, is clearly
having a ball playing a Jewish superhero. Ditto John Turturro as
Zohan'...
Rating:
2 Stars
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:32 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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