Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie the current golden couple of Hollywood.

Paul Newman

Paul Newman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors to ever appear on film. He has never put in a bad performance (but that’s not to say all of the films he has been in have deserved his presence). Personal favourites of mine are The Verdict where his performance as the washed up ambulance-chaser was surely the one he deserved the Oscar for, Absence of Malice with it’s brilliant finale and Nobody’s Fool which is just a great humanist performance. None of these are amongst his best known films and they are all examples of the mature actor. His earlier, more testosterone charged performances, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hud were also brilliant. Newman is a great humanitarian and his generous efforts for charity are second to none. To me he encapsulates everything that is good about America. So I was very sad to hear of his illness recently and I for one wish him a speedy recovery.

It occurred to me only after I had finisjed this caricature of Hugh that his haunted expression reminds me of Munch’s The Scream. I wonder if the casters of House had this in mind when they approached Laurie for the role?

This cartoon is currently being showed by Stern magazine on their website here:

Stern - Barker cartoon

Bruce

Bruce Willis, action hero, everyman. One of a series of caricatures I’ve been responsible for creating recently.

Continuing with my experimenting with different subjects, this is an idea I just had about a spoof inter-galactic superhero, much in the vein of Buzz Lightyear, Captain Pluton is a gung ho egomaniac, but much less likeable than Buzz and has scant regard for any life, other than his own of course.

They can pretty up the show all they like, but one thing still remains - the best baddies are the old baddies

It looks like China’s problems in Tibet aren’t going to go away that easily. The Olympic Flame looks like turning into an international symbol of hope for Tibet, rather than the symbol of a successful modern China the authorities would want.