Word: personae
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MOLLY: I feel like my mom was for many years a sex symbol--she wore the miniskirts and the long, blond hair and was so sexy. I never was really like that. I may have worn a fabulous outfit, but I just never had that persona of the great beauty that I think my mom does. In a lot of ways, I see the world as an overweight 13-year...
Willis has trapped himself between two career stages, and this film perhaps represents an uncomfortable amalgam of his heavy artillery days and an older and wiser persona. The direction is mostly to blame, and Willis’s years of experience shine through in his ability to feign on-screen chemistry with the rest of the cast...
...trick to creating a good comic persona is to find a new way to be unaware. Steve Carell has landed on just such a type: a confident, articulate buffoon who has no idea he's messing things up--Ted Knight without the bubbling insecurity, Will Ferrell without the boyish need to please. With his serious, Father Knows Best demeanor, Carell maintains self-assurance in the face of obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie...
...Spooky” persona will appear in Miller’s to-be-released novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, a takeoff of the classic Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
...that Hunter S. “Doc” Thompson had shot himself, obituaries and retrospectives poured out, online and in print. Some were shitty (The Village Voice). Some were fantastic (Tom Wolfe for the Wall Street Journal). All spoke to the creative force of his demiurgic persona, to his self-characterization, and to his embodiment of Nixon-era counter-culture. But all paled in comparison to the full-throttled elegy he would have scribed...