Word: turturro
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...remained still the best, most challenging and ambitious show on TV didn't alleviate the letdown. The popular character Livia lived on, given an understandably deflated role owing to Marchand's real-life illness. Her role as Tony's antagonist was assumed by his estranged sister Janice (Aida Turturro), a flaky West Coastie who threatened to turn the series into yet another - God help us - "quirky drama." Numerous characters were added; some episodes meandered; others - a trip to Italy, his nephew's flirtation with Hollywood - were self-indulgent and untrue to the tone of the series. When it connected, especially...
STARRING: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman DIRECTOR: Joel Coen OPENS...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
...Brother, Where Art Thou? Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman Director: Joel Coen Opens...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer...