Word: turturro
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...Twenty One" is a remake of a 1950s game show that was mired in scandal. It became the focus of the popular 1994 movie, Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro...
...bring them to life in quick, bold strokes. Among the most remarkable are Cherry Jones, whose tough-talking moll displays a deep belief in the power and necessity of the theater, and Ruben Blades, who melts into his small role as Diego Rivera in a perfect impersonation. John Turturro shines brightly as Aldo Silvano, a dedicated member of the "Cradle" cast who parts ways with his family of Italian nationalists. John Cusack is effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine sadness. Less successful are Vanessa Redgrave...
...setting is a 19th century, New York City theatrical company, but this utterly beguiling film has a European manner about it. Everyone in it is either darkly obsessive or madly grand. The story--Turturro is a playwright struggling to finish a play--is an excuse for a lot of ill-considered, utterly forgivable behavior by a wonderful cast, in which Katherine Borowitz is calmly radiant as the company's leading lady, Christopher Walken deliriously funny as a drama critic. The direction is self-consciously sober, lending an odd, artful weight to the prevailing giddiness...
Julianne Moore has a few great moments as a seductive experimental artist. John Turturro is also on hand as the egocentric, purple spandex-clad bowler Jesus Quintana, quite possibly the more outrageous character he as ever played...
...historian could quibble with details, and Goffin might do more than that: his character is a preening, obnoxious adulterer. But the problem is not historical sense; it's dramatic sense. Nice turns by John Turturro (as a remix of producers Phil Spector and Don Kirshner), Bridget Fonda (as a teen-star lesbian) and Douglas are lost in Anders' reductive message: in the '60s guys were creeps or psychos. Shirelles songs had more insight than that...