Joanne Savio captures Ms. Brown and the heart of her later work in one picture, though Ms. Savio says too much about Diamanda Galas in another, hilarious portrait.

A dryly hilarious portrait of the mogul as a young man, with Mr. Schwartzman a real find as its perfectly horrid little hero, Max Fischer.

At the same time that it plays with such heady ideas, it offers a hilarious yet moving portrait of an anxiety-besieged man named Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage), whose real life and imaginary life jointly careen out of control.

There is a hilarious portrait of a midget in Turkish harem costume between the long legs of Lee Miller, the photographer who for a time was an intimate friend of the artist.

"The End of the Day" offers a bleak yet hilarious portrait of a present-day world in which only money talks: in politics, business, medicine, culture and the privacy of one's own home.

This new volume, "Old Floating Cloud," comprises two novellas that were first written in the mid-1980's: "Yellow Mud Street," a harrowing and hilarious urban portrait, and the title piece, part psychotic romance and part office burlesque.

The photographer, known for his hilarious portraits of his Weimaraners, picked up.

The film is a merciless, sometimes hilarious portrait of the aristocracy, though the earl is far from being a twit.

In the course of relating the story of Grady's life, Mr. Chabon gives us some hilarious portraits of other writers, editors and wannabe's.

It's a merciless and sometimes hilarious portrait of the aristocracy, though the Earl is far from being a twit.