Evidence of the bias toward portraying Mehmed as an intelligent military leader is reflected in the statement: " The sultan ordered the setting up of his secret weapon which he had invented himself.

Eisenstein himself, however, was accused by the Soviet authorities under Joseph Stalin of " formalist error ," of highlighting form as a thing of beauty instead of portraying the worker nobly.

" Cromwell described his method of portraying Cochrane as always playing himself.

In 1886, Roosevelt ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, portraying himself as " The Cowboy of the Dakotas.

The Heimskringla depicts Edward portraying himself as brother and legal heir to both Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut while pointing out that he had already won the support " of all the people of the country ".

Johnson positioned himself as a moderate and succeeded in portraying Goldwater as an extremist.

Janet Maslin in The New York Times said Spacey was at his " wittiest and most agile " to date, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a man who " does reckless and foolish things who doesn't deceive himself ".

The second volume, I Am Spock ( 1995 ), saw Nimoy communicating that he finally realized his years of portraying the Spock character had led to a much greater identification between the fictional character and himself.

Each episode featured Weaver in a first-person plural adventure ( e. g., " Today we are a movie actor "), portraying himself and, behind false mustaches and costume hats, all the other characters in slapstick comedy situations with a voiceover narration and minimal sets.

Duvalier publicly renounced all aid from Washington on nationalist grounds, portraying himself as a "... principled and lonely opponent of domination by a great power.

Immediately followed thereafter by Elliott as himself ( portraying himself as living under the seats, that is ) chatting amiably with Letterman.

Letterman will often poke fun at himself, ranging from the content of his show ( such as admitting when a joke is not particularly funny ), his personal life ( portraying himself as a reclusive loner ), his physical appearance ( his hair or " advanced age "), and his staff's supposed frustration with him ( being forced to work on holidays ).

In portraying his Long figure this way, Basso finds himself between the stools, critical of the spent aristocrats who cannot imagine a modern South, but disgusted also by the figures who represent the wrong kind of newness, the kind of modern South that comes to be if its development is left to default.

Dirksen made a cameo appearance, not identified by name but effectively portraying himself, in the 1969 film The Monitors, a low-budget science-fiction movie in which invading extraterrestrials assert political dominion over the human race, claiming to do so for humanity's benefit.

" However, this statement could have been a ruse on Chico's part to explain his accent and trick Dumont, as he was portraying Groucho rather than himself.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

None of the voice actors for Dumbo received screen credit, but Timothy Mouse, who befriended Dumbo even in his darkest days and was instrumental in helping him find greatness within himself, was voiced by Edward Brophy, a character actor known for portraying gangsters.

Gravano claimed Gotti's defense to consist of Gotti's lawyers portraying Gotti as a peace-loving boss falling all over himself to restrain the kill-crazy Gravano, resulting in a conviction for Gravano and an acquittal for Gotti.

Eventually, Piggy and the Scrubs cast break the fourth wall, with the actors portraying themselves and Bill Lawrence appearing as himself / the director of the current episode.

During his later years he confined himself to parts portraying old men, in which he was unrivalled.

Sulla consolidated his position, declared Marius and his allies hostes ( enemies of the state ), and addressed the Senate in harsh tones, portraying himself as a victim, presumably to justify his violent entrance into the city.

Roberto Elia himself was later deposed in the inquiry, and testified that Salsedo had committed suicide for fear of betraying the others, portraying himself as the ' strong ' one who had resisted.

A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

It has with a Baroque portal ( 1667 ), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the Histories of St. Peter and Virgin by Jacopo da Montagnana ( 1495 ) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome.

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

The remaining 28 were criticized for portraying miraculous awakenings with no lasting side effects, unrealistic depictions of treatments and equipment required, and comatose patients remaining muscular and tanned.

Pissarro agreed with the group about the importance of portraying individuals in natural settings, and expressed his dislike of any artifice or grandeur in his works, despite what the Salon demanded for its exhibits.

Clark Kent is played by Tom Welling, with others portraying Clark as an infant.

Linear perspective is a method of portraying objects on a flat surface so that the dimensions shrink with distance.

Epicurus the Sage is a two-part comic book by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth portraying Epicurus as " the only sane philosopher " by anachronistically bringing him together with many other well-known Greek philosophers.

In the comedic play, Wallach and the other men clowned around as various dictators, with Wallach portraying Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany.

The Danish publication of cartoons portraying prophet Muhammad further damaged relations with Europe's Muslim population, and the Islamic world at-large.

The opera's first performance, with Matt Kelly portraying Brood, was 12 November 2010 in Houston, Texas.

Historian Nancy Rabinowitz argues that ancient Greek red vase images portraying women with their arms around another woman's waist, or leaning on a woman's shoulders can be construed as expressions of romantic desire.

She attempted two unsuccessful series in a row: Mary, which featured David Letterman, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz and Dick Shawn in the supporting cast and lasted three episodes, which was re-tooled as The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, a backstage show within a show, with Mary portraying a TV star putting on a variety show.

Cuba's Ministry of the Interior with art portraying Che Guevara.

He portrayed academic scholars as self-interested members of an " entrenched authority " that aimed to " outlaw and silence dissent in a supposedly free society ", and proposed to counter their influence by portraying Oxford as a candidate on equal footing with Shakespeare.

Because of the low social status of immigrant workers, contemporary writers and media had little trouble portraying opium dens as seats of vice, white slavery, gambling, knife and revolver fights, a source for drugs causing deadly overdoses, with the potential to addict and corrupt the white population.

The stock parasite in this play, Gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet ; Owens puts forward that Plautus is portraying the economic hardship many Roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.

They came up with advertising portraying black Americans in a positive light, such as one with a smiling mother holding a six pack of Pepsi while her son ( a young Ron Brown, who grew up to be Secretary of Commerce ) reaches up for one.

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

* In contrast with the Johns and Dench, Judy Collins's performs not as an actress portraying Desirée but as a pop singer of a sad ballad.

Bullock had initially turned down the role three times due to a discomfort with portraying a devout Christian.

* Naturalism – portraying life on stage with close attention to detail, based on observation of real life.