Does he ever quietly congratulate himself and say, Hey, I made this street?
The story may be flimsy and the characters made of cardboard, but the exuberant performances (including a charismatically sunny turn by Nina Foch) and some resonant on-location views of waterfront Manhattan make this street-grubby film memorable.
The expansive width of this street makes this opposition to a simple stripe of paint perplexing.
The first "Tidy" book, published in 2002, sold half a million copies in Europe, making this former street clown an unlikely best-selling author.
Like, 'You're going to make this a street for hipsters and I'm not going to have a place in this community.'".
But the power of big banks on Wall Street makes this kind of investigation even more necessary – see the reporting of Matt Taibbi for some graphic details.
Yes, this public art could be called "obvious" as well, but the choice to put the cameras on the plain wall of a plain building on a side street makes this work more interesting than when Banksy put a truck full of "screaming" stuffed farm animals in the Meatpacking District.
"We had to get the factory manager to come across and remind himself of what was done 15 years ago and get these purpose made for this street," he said.
Terry Teachout, drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, makes this hat-switching look far easier than it is with his first play, the one-man show "Satchmo at the Waldorf," receiving a skillful production at the Long Wharf Theater here.
What makes this fight different, say Wall Street critics and legislative leaders, is that financiers are aggressively seeking to fend off regulation of the very products and practices that directly contributed to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
