 However, when Edna tells him that she wrote the song, he is impressed enough to direct her to Joel Milner (John Turturro) who takes her under his wing, renames her "Denise Waverly" and invents a blue-collar persona for her.Milner reworks her song for a male doo-wop group, the Stylettes, as male solo artists are groups are far more marketable.The song becomes a hit.