Word: artiste
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...Dean convinces Joel to hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie in order to lessen his guilt about his own planned indescretion. Heavily drugged, Joel agrees to the sexual hire, not knowing that the girl he’s aiming to cheat with is, in fact, a con artist manipulating his underlings in order to bankrupt Reynold’s. Couple this with the threat of a strike from his array of imbecile employees, and Joel’s life becomes a colorful assortment of comedic fruit.Despite the presence of acclaimed actors like Bateman, Wiig, and J.K. Simmons, the film...
...that he predicted would take down CBS and NBC. While others were mastering the basics of HTML, Harris was instituting the first online chat rooms and becoming a multi-millionaire. Called the “Warhol” of the internet world by New York Magazine, Harris commissioned his artist friends to do as they pleased in the Factory-esque office space of Pseudo. His unorthodox management style (which included dressing up as a clown when investors toured the office) eventually led to the company’s bankruptcy in 2000; Harris even fled to Africa to avoid mounting debt...
...North America by his work on the “Dan in Real Life” soundtrack, released in 2007. Throughout his career, the singer-songwriter has dabbled in jazz, orchestral sounds, straight-up rock, or wherever his fancy took him. His sixth studio album presents a mature artist that has found and settled comfortably into his own layered pop sound. Now able to draw from experience, Lerche takes the elements that worked best from his previous albums and brings them together; the record blends in remarkably well with the fabric of his career. Even first listeners of Sondre Lerche...
...spent four years as a propaganda artist, portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in unvaryingly heroic poses, but now the painter Sunmu is having fun with the form. Since arriving in the South in 2001, 38-year-old Sunmu - it's an assumed name - has been lampooning his old master from a musty studio in a run-down suburb of western Seoul. In the eponymous work Kim Jong Il, the North Korean supremo is shown in a pink tracksuit, grinning and fat. In Please Have Some Medicine (pictured), he is a dying hospital patient being offered Coca-Cola...
...eventually finding a path to South Korea via Laos following three years in hiding. Once in Seoul, he used a government stipend to further his art studies, and since graduating has eked out a precarious living, supporting his wife - whom he met in China - and young daughter on an artist's income. It wasn't until his first solo exhibition - held last year and entitled "We Live in a Happy World" - that he began to establish a reputation. These days, his pieces sell locally and overseas for around...