Word: portrayal
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Notebook is outraged. Yes, outraged! Foreigners dare to portray our 2000 presidential election as somehow flawed. Pot calling the kettle black...
...terms with the Orient, based not on "truth" about that area but on what he projects onto it. The Orient and "Orientals" are seen, stereotypically, as the "Other": eccentric and backward, sensual and passive. Men are feminine, but also threatening; women are exotic and easily dominated. Images that portray the Orient from an exotic point of view, even if they are just landscapes, are said by scholars to be Orientalist...
Movies about kids often portray adults as the enemy, clueless or villainous. This one doesn't. The children, most of them stranded in the waiting room of prepubescence, look to adults for guidance and offer unconditional love in return. George, visiting his father in jail, says, "I love you so much, sometimes I can't even breathe." Buddy's ma has trouble sleeping, so he lullabies her with favorite tunes ("She likes the theme to Blazing Saddles"). George's uncle Damascus (Eddie Rouse) is a violent man whose fear of dogs impels him to kill George's treasured stray. From...
What keeps Just Looking merely predictable rather than boring are its characters. First-time film director Jason Alexander (yes, George from "Seinfeld") clearly loves his actors and the characters they portray. Every character, from Lenny to the old Italian assistant at the grocery store, is vivid and sharply delineated and the performances are sensitive and compelling. Ryan Merriman, as Lenny, does an especially impressive job. Gretchen Mol, who disappeared from Hollywood radar after being proclaimed the new "it" girl on the cover of Vanity Fair, has reinstated herself with her charming turn as Hedy...
Columbus Day and Yom Kippur fell on the same day this year, but the few bona fide Italian icons who portray those in desperate need of atonement were not celebrating. Cast members of HBO's THE SOPRANOS were disinvited from riding in New York City's Columbus Day parade following protests from Italian-American groups. "The Sopranos is guilty of damaging the image and character of an estimated 20 million Italian Americans by using their religion, customs and values in a violent and immoral context," claims the coalition, which recently named show creator David Chase "Pasta-tute of the Year...