Word: portraited
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...definitive catalog for publication in the year 2001, have concluded that around 50 of the world's 900-odd Van Gogh's, or one in every 230, are forged or misattributed. Among the fakes identified so far: a seascape in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and a self- portrait in the Austrian National Galley in Vienna...
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously begins, "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road . . ." Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Viking; 282 pages; $20.95) opens this way: "We were coming down our road." The echo sounds intentional, as if Doyle, with fine Irish fatalism, knows that all books about Dublin's seedy, seething street life carry the curse of invidious comparison with the works of the master. Why not invoke it at the top and then...
...this, the realization dawns that anecdotes and strung-together incidents are all the novel offers in the way of plot. Doyle's impersonation of young Paddy may be too accurate, prompting readers to recall that history is not replete with examples of successful 10- year-old novelists. Joyce's Portrait takes its hero through adolescence; Paddy's self-portrait remains stuck somewhere past the moocow stage...
...film did not contain performances to match. Campion's direction is perhaps her greatest achievement in "The Piano." A nearly unrecognizable Holly Hunter is simply amazing as Ada. Despite the fact that she does not utter a word during the movie, Hunter manages to provide a full-bodied portrait of Ada, so that the audience knows what she is thinking and feeling without her having to articulate it. Ada marks Hunter's best work on screen thus far. Keeping up with Hunter is Anna Paquin as Ada's daughter Flora. Paquin brings an intensity and credibility to her role that...
...became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study of a "genius who never wrote a bad line or a good book...