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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John Turturro
Mr Stick
for Mr Stick in Pizza Tower (1990s Live Action)
Suggested by talalagirlg46
In the neon-soaked chaos of 90s,Peppino Spaghetti, a down-on-his-luck Italian chef, runs across his fragility pizzeria business, then takes a darker turn when a mysterious corporation known only as Pizzaface Enterprises threatens to demonlish "pizza megaplexes" To save his restaurant, Peppino must infiltrate the sureal Pizza Tower, a colossal,other worldly skyscraper rumored to be part gladiatorial arena.Each floor is themed after bizarre food-inspired realms - motten cheese foundries,susage-stuffed fractories,nightmarish dessert corridors,and more - all corrupted chefs. Though anxious and clumsy in real life, while there's many different types of wacky worlds inside that enormous tower. Peppino unleashes an unpredictable energy, hurling himself through obstacles with manic determination,Along side his mischievous partner,Gustavo (and their trusty rat, Brick), Peppino must battle rival chefs,sureal monsters, and living food abominations in an escalating war of kitchen chaos. It blends slapstick comedy.Practical effects, and over-the-top stunts in the style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984) and Pee-wee's big adventure, but with a gritter undercurrent of 1990s live action. Sometimes it does show where Peppino and friends weren't inside Pizza Tower... Tone: A mix of absurd comedy, campy horror, and action spectacle - think The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!Colliding with Evil Dead || and Poilce Squad, all wrapped in greasy VHS-era charm.
