Word: perfectionist
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...film, and not much more. In the titular role, Nicole Kidman plays a moderately successful author and mother of two who, along with her son (Zane Pais), returns to her childhood home where her younger sister is about to be married. Kidman, relishing the role of a hovering, parental perfectionist, disapproves strongly of sister Jennifer Jason Leigh’s engagement to scatterbrained starving artist Jack Black. Throw in Kidman’s own extramarital affair with the local literary savant, a family of bizarre survivalist neighbors, Pais’ puberty issues, and one ubiquitously symbolic elm tree...
...Steichen who emerges in the Paris show is an innovator, a perfectionist and a self-promoter. He experimented with the latest gadgets and technology, using an early pocket camera to capture the crowd at Paris' Longchamps racetrack, and portraying artist Auguste Rodin by combining two negatives, one of him with his Victor Hugo sculpture and another with his The Thinker. (The critics loved it; so did Rodin...
...early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...
...Katzenberg says animation appealed to Seinfeld "because he's a perfectionist, and it's probably the only form of moviemaking where you can actually get near perfection." Seinfeld disagrees, describing himself as "obsessive, yes; perfectionist, no." For more than three years during production, Seinfeld continued his stand-up gigs on weekends and also oversaw everything from Bee Movie's casting to the most minute hand movements of the animated characters. (He began flying out to the DreamWorks studio so often, in fact, that he eventually rented a house in Bel Air, Calif.) During the final stages of production in August...
...working as the head designer for the Emporio Armani women's label has been a rich experience. "We're always being stretched because he has his own point of view," she explains. "We prepare the collection, and then he comes in and gives his opinion. He is a perfectionist. You always believe you've given your best, and he thinks you can give more. And he's usually right...