Article: Power Punk: Drew Barrymore.(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: Jake Brooks

Flower Films Child; producing Angel; Spielberg's goddaughter; Stroking New York

Drew Barrymore has been a child actor and she's been an ingenue, and she has outlasted most of her competition in both of those areas--and a few more salacious ones as well--because she is that rarest of creatures in the movie business: someone in control of her destiny.

So call it kismet--or the allure of Strokes beau Fabrizio Moretti--that has 28-year-old Ms. Barrymore now calling New York, in part, home. Although most Manhattan denizens still remember Ms. Barrymore as a Page Six mainstay, it's her transformation from brawn to brains that has ...

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