Note, please, the subject's use of a Tanita Tikaram reference.
She said that a caricature could never please its subject, but then recalled that Nora Ephron owned a portrait of herself by Levine.
Ioffe interviewed Melania Trump, a Slovenian immigrant, and found, in Slovenia, a family story that did not please her subject, including a half-brother whom Melania at first denied knowledge of.
For evidence of what happens when biographer and subject don't click so perfectly, compare Mr. McDonough's sweeping yet uneasy portrait of Neil Young, "Shakey," an authorized book eager to please its subject, with his freewheeling approach in "Tammy Wynette" to the late, lamented, conveniently elusive "Tragic Country Queen".
Rembrandt didn't try to please his subjects or the viewer.
Talking Prince until my family would ask me to please change subjects.
Far from pleasing its subject, the book has provoked the painter into a public rage over what he perceives as a muckraking intrusion, spattered with inaccuracies.
Given these difficulties, Grossman's version is remarkably lucid, and her lines often achieve a mesmerizing shimmer that would surely have pleased her subject.
In what may be the best thing he has written, "Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye," Ritz didn't have to worry about pleasing his subject: the book started out as a collaborative venture, only to end up an unauthorized biography after Gaye was shot dead by his own father.
The verdict isn't fully in on these pictures, but biopics of pop culture heroes often put directors in the difficult position of pleasing their subject's fan base while giving a rounded view of their character.
