Nobody [Messes] With The Community Bookstore!

Brooklyn-based actor John Turturro has stepped in to help bail out Park Slope’s debt-ridden Community Bookstore, according to Sunday’s New

Brooklyn-based actor John Turturro has stepped in to help bail out Park Slope’s debt-ridden Community Bookstore, according to Sunday’s New York Times.

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Facing foreclosure, the owner of the Seventh Avenue indie retailer, Catherine Bohne, reportedly "offered up to 49 percent ownership in the store to a group of friends willing to put up at least $10,000 apiece," and Mr. Turturro, a frequent customer, was among the first in line.

"[A]ll these great small bookstores and art house movie theaters, so many things I love, are being swallowed up by a supermarket mentality," he told the Times.

It’s a dramatic turn for the actor perhaps best known for his role in 1998’s The Big Lebowski as tongue-wagging alleged child-molester and superstar bowler Jesus Quintana: "Nobody fucks with the Jesus!"

Nobody [Messes] With The Community Bookstore!