But she did not regret playing so many maids, she said, because it allowed for steady work and for portraying working people with dignity.
It found a higher than average level of female characters in Indian movies shown semi-nude, with few women in significant speaking roles or portrayed working.
Clooney is portrayed working out on his own, conversing with a priest who is curious about newcomers to town, and manufacturing a silencer for a high-powered firearm.
Comic fiction that reduces all its personnel to mere caricatures can be a trial to read, but this book, for all the amped-up extremity of the events it portrays, works because its characters get a grounding in emotional reality as well as a bunch of outrageous events with which to contend.
"I really think we have to be very careful in a free society to respect that cultural institutions will portray works of art, put on operas, plays, that there will be art exhibits in museum," de Blasio said.
Well, art portraying work or workers' values and struggles has been going on for centuries, but portraying work in dramatic or readily accessible ways has not been fashionable of late.
"I'm constantly looking round for actors who can convincingly portray working-class men," said McGovern.
Townsend is up there with the greats who portray working-class culture in all its heroic inconsistency.
The menswear would include bomber jackets and tracksuit bottoms, adorned with the occasional gold chain in a muddled attempt to portray working-class style.
Also included in the exhibition are images from Mr. Turnley's early years, quieter photographs that portray working-class life in an industrial town in Middle America — a woman staring out the window of a public bus (Slide 12), a young couple caught in the moment before a kiss (Slide 10).
