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...that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where she's a French maid with a crush on Napoleon, then a year later in Guys and Dolls, an undervalued movie much more crucial to Simmons's screen persona...
Lyman, too, provides an intricate study of his character. His Joe is one part Mister Rogers and one part Gordon Gekko, with a hint of Vito Corleone mixed in for good measure. A suggestion of darkness hides in Lyman’s friendly neighborhood persona, the many aspects of which he effectively explores throughout the play. Lyman’s only fault is the apparent mouth full of cotton balls he possesses every time he speaks, but his diction is never so unintelligible as to be distracting...
...picture presented in Game Change of Palin's emergence as national phenomenon - and the real Palin behind her public persona - is often startling and sometimes shocking. The scantness of the vetting she received before being placed on the Republican ticket. Her substantive deficiencies, even more dramatic than those that had previously been reported: her lack of understanding about why there are two Koreas, her ignorance about the function of the Federal Reserve, her belief that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. The fact that, at her lowest moments during preparation for her debate against Joe Biden, some senior McCain aides...
...Callahan can still hustle, which he demonstrated on several occasions off the diamond in recent months when forced to make quick escapes from Sandinista mobs. Leaders of Nicaragua's ruling party declared Callahan persona non grata last October after he gave a speech reiterating U.S. concern about the Sandinistas' judicial power play to green-light Ortega's re-election bid in 2011, despite a constitutional ban prohibiting...
...confinement in various British correctional facilities, earning the moniker “Britain’s most violent prisoner.” The historical Charlie Bronson is a sociopath and a lunatic, a senseless rage-addict and a goon. But apply the words that open the film to the persona Refn manifests in Peterson and, more subtly, Refn himself, and “Bronson” offers a much more sensible portrait of the artist than it ever does of its subject. But ambitions at auto-portraiture aside, “Bronson” is, at its heart, a deeply...