Yet just as the brio of McRae's tap dancing is steeped in the classicism of his training, by a reverse osmosis, you can see the rhythmic sass of his tap persona showing through his ballet performances.
Curtis's grinning, non-PC ladykilling persona showed somewhat awed UK telly audiences how a real Hollywood star made it look easy – although the very fact that he'd signed up for this gig tipped us off that his career was perhaps in its autumnal phase.
Jicha notes that the attack upon the police depicts the uncertainty of the daily life in law enforcement, but that the introduction of Belker's persona shows the writers are a bit out of touch with reality.
Theroux says his celebrity profiles are "about penetrating a persona to show how a public face clashes with a personal life".
This is much more intuitive and cool.' We did all that work for him, didn't we?" Steve Jobs the movie is an attempt to unscrew the back of that cultivated persona and show us what's inside.
Mr. Cusack wrings contradictions out of his genial, buffoonish persona that show an actor's canniness at work -- he earns the dark circles under his eyes as he observes his fellow jurors.
"He had been receiving the best available treatment through this final battle and in keeping with his persona, he showed incredible strength, tenacity and courage," it said in a statement.
He came in second on "American Idol" in 2008, and so came cloaked in underdog status for a while; he made a better-than-necessary first record, shoring up his innocent puppy persona and showing off the lovely fog of his super-earnest, bubblegum-soul voice.
Although Holly, like Monroe – and like Capote, in fact – all sprang from a Platonic conception of themselves (in F Scott Fitzgerald's famous phrase), for them the fissures between the earlier self and the public persona always showed, and threatened to split them apart.
This means someone can create a persona to show their work colleagues and then new ones for things they'd rather not share with everyone, like their reborn doll collection or Limp Bizkit obsession, but manage everything with one log-in.
