Word: portraited
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...every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." So went the trailer blurb for Martin Scorsese's mesmerizing "Taxi Driver," a portrait of an ordinary guy whose mind works a little differently from the rest of us. Before our eyes, Travis Bickle slides deeper and deeper into a mental abyss, into a world buffeted on all sides, as he believes, by the sordidness of the city around him--until he finally takes action...
...film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. But in the sudden eruption of violence in the almost dreamlike sequence, the scene almost acts like a sexual release that the earlier scenes of Travis's desperation have led to: Scorsese is merely completing the portrait...
...begin releasing the new currency in a matter of weeks. Treasury spent nearly 10 years on the redesign and has added any number of state-of-the-art features: microprinting, color-shifting ink, a polymer security thread. The most striking alteration, however, is the enlargement of Benjamin Franklin's portrait: he now dominates the bill like a movie star in a newspaper advertisement...
...lack of publicity. Not a frame has been shot, yet the film has generated the sort of controversy that surrounds a sighting of the (other) Madonna. Buenos Aires' walls are decorated with slogans supporting either MS. PERON, inset, or MS. CICCONE, who appears, at left, in an exclusive, official portrait as Argentina's once and future, if unofficial, queen. Madonna, who has already recorded the score, plus one song written for the film, is sufficiently inured to the buzz to appear in public, albeit under guard. But even President Carlos Menem has weighed in: "I don't see Madonna...
...Robinson-as - Parker dedicates a song to a young woman in the audience, but is less successful when he addresses certain audience members as if they were acquaintances and expects them to improvise their half of the dialogue. These minor excesses are not enough to mar the subtle, touching portrait of Parker painted by Robinson's "Live Bird". Unfortunately, this is just the type of self-indulgence and excess that inflates "Alley Cats" into a cartoonish and unsuccessful mess...