Nov 26th, 2008 · Film critic David Edelstein says the Harvey Milk biopic, starring Sean Penn, is one of the most heartfelt portraits of a politician ever made. "The personal and the political aren't just hand-in-hand," he says: "They dance."
Keywords: politics · critic · biopic · movies · David Edelstein · portrait · Sean Penn · Harvey Milk
Nov 25th, 2008 · Out gay politician Harvey Milk served just 11 months in office before his assassination 30 years ago. Critic Bob Mondello says Gus Van Sant's new movie biography is a portrait of a hero — and of his cause. (Recommended)
Keywords: officer · politics · movement · assassination · Gay · movies · heroes · Biography · portrait · Critic Bob Mondello · Gus Van Sant · Harvey Milk
Nov 18th, 2008 · Whoopi Goldberg in a milk bath? Meryl Streep in a white mime face? After training her lens on some of the most notable faces of our day, the photographer reveals the stories behind some of her famous portraits.
Keywords: famous · Photographs · portrait · lens · annie · Meryl Streep · Leibovitz · Whoopi Goldberg
Nov 6th, 2008 · First published in 1978, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! revisits and restores the lost and mildly X-rated nascent years of a great American artist.
Keywords: Americans · artists · portrait · 1978 · Spiegelman · nascent · emBreakdowns
Nov 4th, 2008 · Artists and athletes, celebrities and scribes, the talented and the tainted promiscuously link arms and promenade in this exuberant collection of portraits from the Vanity Fair archives.
Keywords: athletes · artists · celebration · archive · beautiful · talented · Exuberance · portrait · promenade · emVanity
Oct 22nd, 2008 · Photographer Jona Frank's portraits of the Patrick Henry College student body reveal a group of kids for whom the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog is the work of sinners and a game of sloppy beer pong immoral.
Keywords: Evangelical · students · catalog · portrait · beer · immoral · Ivy · Sinners · sloppy · Patrick Henry College · Photographer Jona Frank · Abercrombie Fitch
Oct 12th, 2008 · Though born in France, Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustav Le Clezio is a nomadic writer, whose work has been defined by his life of travel around the world. For him, storytelling means melting into the background.
Keywords: world · France · Writer · Le · storytelling · laureate · portrait · Nobel · Nomadic · background · Clezio · Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio
Sep 29th, 2008 · Along with his acting career, Paul Newman made a name for himself as a philanthropist and humanitarian, traits that made him an appropriate choice to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, in a performance at Carnegie Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Keywords: Paul · philanthropist · humanitarian · portrait · narrator · Lincoln · Hall · carnegie · Carnegie Hall · appropriate · Newman · Paul Newman