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...after Titian, there emphatically was such an art. The fierce, glaring authority of Doge Andrea Gritti; the plump self-assurance of the Florentine historian Benedetto Varchi; the saurian cunning of old Pope Paul III, huddled in his velvet cape; and the inflexible determination of the military commander Francesco Maria della Rovere, whose carapace of bombshell-black armor is painted with a freedom and virtuosity that looks forward to Velazquez and, beyond him, to Manet -- to scan these portraits is to realize what an appetite for human character Titian had, and what a gallery of it he created...
...midst of a heated campaign for the district attorney's seat, the movie begins with incumbent Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy) losing ground to the challenger, Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian). Horgan needs something quick and sensational, he thinks, to halt his slide...
...movie's otherwise heavy atmosphere. Discounting as evidence a facetious admittal of the crime--Sabich's "Yeah, you're right"--Lyttle says, "If Mr. Sabich had come from my part of town, he'd have said, 'Yo mama.'" The wit, which is omnipresent with constant references to Della Guardia as "Mr. Dee Lay Guardia," add complexity to his character of an otherwise tough-nosed "Judge Motherfucker," as one ex-con who previously bribed him describes...
...notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese -- and cast them as the management of a club too prosperous for its own good. A powerful white mob is trying to move in on them...
...years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American ones as well, in particular Sargent and Whistler) were transfixed by Velazquez when they found him on their pilgrimages to the Prado. Francis...