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Their movies-- Blood Simple , Raising Arizona , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , The Hudsucker Proxy , Fargo, and now The Big Lebowski --have been eccentric in the best sense, avoiding both mainstream studio practices and the indie mentality that mindlessly reacts against them.
A profile of eccentric German animal illusionists Siegfried and Roy describes life inside their "Jungle Palace" on the fringes of Las Vegas.
E has recently written several quickie celebrity bios, and here is an instant celebrity-based guide to our characters: For me, think the youthful Elliott Gould of, say, California Split , slowly turning into the more eccentric Elliott Gould of Kicking & Screaming . For E, think the dewy Mariel Hemingway of Manhattan with a touch of Alan Dershowitz.
Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.
Soutine's big break came in 1922, when one of those connoisseurs of the "primitive," the eccentric Philadelphia art educator Dr. Albert Barnes, bought up 52 of Soutine's paintings, making Soutine an art world celebrity almost overnight.