Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vows revenge, but takes his time reacquainting himself with the city and its environs, plotting. We get the feeling from the start that he's just biding his time, a shark circling its prey, but he does take the whole thing a little too seriously. His bad-ass persona seems a bit silly considering he is Mel Gibson the goofy guy who gets a kick out of life. This is definitely a case where celebrity transcends any attempt at getting into character...
...surrender the film to him. He is a magnet in front of the camera. In comparison, Laney Boggs is a mere prop to his masculine narrative. In both screen time and plot weight, Prinze's character receives much more emphasis than any other. The scrawny effort to inflate his persona, with the injection of an overbearing father and the angst of being too overachieving, is pitiful--but Prinze carries it off with a demeanor that cries, "Who needs a viable screenplay with a face like this...
Just as important to Combs' popularity is the high-style, fun-loving, money-making persona he cultivates. After the murders of B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, many music fans soured on gangsta rap's verbal gunslinging. Combs' videos portrayed a stylish, monied crowd more concerned with the good life than living out gangster fantasies--"ghetto high fashion," he calls it. Offstage too Combs cuts a swashbuckling figure. In white-on-white suits and a black bowler, he is chauffeured around in a Bentley, and hangs his hat in a cavernous $14 million Manhattan mansion that he shares with his girlfriend...
...Mary Poppins, her career might have been different. But by adopting the name of the street-tough title character of a blaxploitation classic, rapper FOXY BROWN gave herself a lot to live up to. She proved worthy on her first album, Ill Na Na, with lewd lyrics, a hypersexual persona and platinum sales. Brown, 19, now has a second album, Chyna Doll, an equally provocative effort. She bristles when asked if she's going too far with her spiked heels and X-rated raps. "What's going too far? Marilyn Manson urinates on a crowd, and he's respected...
Ingmar Bergman has been listening to, and making, these confessions for half a century--in films, such as The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly and Persona, that define the age of anxiety. And though Bergman retired from film directing in 1983, he has continued to write for the screen, wrestling with his Lutheran God, facing up to his household demons, making them the stuff of astringent artistry...