Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'Barton Fink'
Posted at 12:00 PM Jan 06, 2009
By Kenny HerzogWelcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.
And while yesterday saw Aracnophobia get reimagined as the tale of eight-legged creatures used as currency for farm mortgage so they can be sacrificed for a good harvest, today the Info-Bar gives us a serious literary workout, courtesy of the Coen Brothers, John Turturro (and John Goodman, in his second consecutive HCIBDOTD appearance).
Barton Fink
The Actual Story: Lured by the possibility of fame and riches, Turturro's titular scribe signs what may as well have been a deal with the devil to pen a crappy wrestling flick for a schlocky studio head. And while trying to put the thing together in a seedy hotel full of weirdo distractions like Goodman and Judy Davis, is subjected to all manner of bizarre happenings and murderous intrigue. Essentially, it's a heeeelarious allegory for the freakshow that is Hollywood, if all the makeup and fancy clothes were stripped away to reveal its nefarious essence.
Cable-Info Bar Synopsis: "A serious Broadway playwright sweats out a B-movie script in a weird 1941 Hollywood hotel."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: That things got so downright wacky at the aforementioned inn that Fink began to develop a raging fever. Except as the perspiration rained out of his forehead, along with it came the words to his elusive script, sending our protagonist on a maddening chase to track down every last salty drop in order to salvage his film.
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