Correction: August 6, 2000, Sunday The cover article on Pages 4 and 5 of the Television section today, about the Bravo series "Influences," misidentifies the employer of Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables"; the character, like the real Ness, worked for the Treasury Department, not the F.B.I.
For decades, the American film scene has consistently delivered classics – Touch of Evil, Serpico and The Untouchables – and characters with the magnetism of Harry Callahan, Jake Gittes and "Popeye" Doyle.
Perhaps because she was considered an untouchable or unpromising character, Victoria's appearances in British TV drama have generally been in biographies of other historical figures.
"By entering the harem, we made all those untouchable and respected characters of history closer to us.
I would love to make all of the characters untouchable.
The episode parodies the series The Untouchables, with the character of Rex Banner based on Robert Stack's portrayal of Eliot Ness, and the voice of the narrator being based on that of Walter Winchell.
Despite the varying successes of any and all Hannibal Lecter-related films, this character is untouchable in terms of instilling fear.
The title (a clumsy one, at best, blending English with the French word for "untouchable") refers to both characters: the drastically disabled man, who essentially is shut away from society; and the immigrant, part of a group with whom the country's natives have, at best, an ambivalent relationship.
WASHINGTON — If you listen to the mythology of Washington conservatives, then you might think the close circle of Chicagoans who run the White House are masters of a modern political machine, tough-minded enforcers of what Sean Connery's character in "The Untouchables" called "the Chicago way".
The political turmoil at play is vividly portrayed through the lives of four disenfranchised characters, including two "untouchable" tailors whose efforts to escape the terrible limitations of the caste system have brought them to the city in search of a better life.
