In his uncle Francis Ford Coppola's 'Peggy Sue Got Married,' he was the Fabian manque' with a pompadour and a cartoon voice. He was the hapless baby kidnapper of 'Raising Arizona' whose perpetually disheveled hair mirrored the confusion of his life. In 'Moonstruck,' he was the passionate baker who lost the love of his life when he lost his hand in a bread slicer - and then seduced Cher.

What is so interesting to watch is how he pulls off being dangerously moody and goofy at the same time. It's not just that Cage is intense and crazed on screen - or that in two of his movies ('Wild at Heart' and 'Raising Arizona') he finds himself in jail within the first five minutes. And if you don't channel him or ride herd on him, it could become frightening music.'

He's looking for complicated notes in his acting. 'I think he's struggling for magical things,' says Lynch. 'I couldn't really sleep very well, either,' he says. He washed his mouth out with vodka before and after, and he still couldn't eat for three days. And people would go, 'Oh, man, that's really happening.' ' I wanted to come up with something that would work with the vampire mythology and also create a visceral experience for the audience where it almost broke the fourth wall down. I thought, 'Well, but that's been done.' We saw Stallone do that. 'Originally I was supposed to eat raw eggs. After all, this is the man who chewed a cockroach in 'Vampire's Kiss.' And it was his idea. He has gone to some extremes for his work. 'I just think it's in me to do something a little more offbeat. 'I don't think so,' muses the star of David Lynch's new film, 'Wild at Heart,' a twisted take on a romantic adventure. LOS ANGELES - Can Nicolas Cage play a normal guy?

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