Word: personae
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...declared persona non grata by the New Zealand government and I couldn’t return,” he explains...
...screen persona has made the 22-year-old poster girl of South Korean cinema's commercial renaissance a star. Despite having made just five films, Jun has become famous throughout much of Asia, smiling on magazine and TV ads from Sapporo to Singapore. Her TV campaign for Olympus digital cameras helped hike the company's brand recognition by more than 15%, according to advertising company LG Ad. My Sassy Girl was seen by more than 5 million people in South Korea and sat on top of the box office for two weeks in Hong Kong, where local films and Hollywood...
...persona of Ali G, Baron Cohen has interviewed myriad famous figures, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, asking him to translate expletives into French, and throwing superfluous “Boutros”’s into the conversation...
...vibe about the group. Their week is grueling, filled with song-selection sessions, rehearsals, run-throughs, commercial and promo shoots, performances and interviews. (Minors Trias and DeGarmo, 16, also spend three hours a day with a tutor.) But in ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching. While they ultimately make their own decisions, they get advice on their song choices and performance to counter the judges' feedback, which often amounts to personal critiques: that DeGarmo is too girlish or London too staid. On one shopping trip for show-night clothes--the Idols...
...creating a persona or being an artist? If she and we are lucky, she will someday become a true performer, for whom there is no difference between the two. That is why it's a false choice to ask if American Idol is a popularity contest or a singing competition. Vocal coach Byrd has a better term for it. "Welcome," she says, "to Star School." --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles