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Still, the dark humor in the play, turning on the gaping discrepancy between the brutish June and the motherly character she portrays on the radio, mostly comes through fine.

Still new enough to celebrity to oblige, she plunged into the fray, signing photos of herself as Lilly Rush, the tough Philadelphia police investigator she portrays on "Cold Case," the season's most popular new crime drama.

A lesson to be gleaned from "Charlotte Rampling: The Look," Angelina Maccarone's fascinating and frustrating documentary portrait of an enigmatic star, might be that it would be foolish to suppose that Ms. Rampling is anything like the transgressive women she portrays on the screen.

The similarities between Lucia Micarelli and Annie Tee, the character she portrays on HBO's Treme, are striking -- obviously.

(Neil Genzlinger) 'Charlotte Rampling: the Look' (No rating, 1 34, in French) A lesson to be gleaned from Angelina Maccarone's fascinating and frustrating documentary portrait of the enigmatic star, might be that it would be foolish to suppose that she is anything like the transgressive women she portrays on-screen.

It is a dispute that has drawn in Sarah Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential candidate, who has a son with Down syndrome, and a "Family Guy" voice actress who, like the character she portrayed on the show, also has that disability.

The mag made a point to say that Cavallari is nothing like the villainous caricature she portrayed on the MTV reality series; instead Anna Griffin, the mag's editor in chief and writer, mused at "how genuinely nice and down to earth she is," adding that she was "sweet and "grounded" and doing her best to live and organic and nontoxic lifestyle. .

Seizing on what she said was the prime issue in the race for United States Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton assailed Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's stewardship of public education in New York yesterday, asserting that he had resorted to "gimmicks" to rescue a school system that she portrayed as on the brink of collapse.

Fey also talks about how she portrays Liz Lemon on "30 Rock" as ugly, a notion she disputes.

In her novel, she portrays a government bent on writing laws so restrictive that everyone will be breaking some law all the time.

She remembered, for example, how unconcerned she initially was about the gender of the characters she portrayed, as eager to take on Colossus ("a beefy Russian white dude") as she was to relish dressing up as Wonder Woman (a character she says she's repeatedly been told by angry, retrograde fanboys she's disgracing, given her dark skin).