Screened Life

John Turturro's son Amedeo was born while he was being filmed acting as a an aspiring screenwriter in "Barton Fink." As preparation for that part, Father Turturro began scraping together notes for a screenplay, which has become "Romance & Cigarettes" (partially released in 2005 and scheduled for wider rollout this month) and in the process of bringing that to the screen he consulted with Amedeo on the work the grew with his life that also become son/younger brother Diego's film debut.

As James Gandolfini (musically) deals with his and Susan Sarandon's children (Aida Turturro, Mandy Moore and Mary-Louise Parker) of a marriage now-dying one can only wonder at what types of conversations father and son had at the various stages of the movie's and boy's development of the expressions of love between a father and an angry child:

** It's what every father wants, to bring the kids into the family biz. **