29-541: The Duke Ellington Memorial by Robert Graham is installed at Duke Ellington Circle in Manhattan , New York City , New York . The monument depicts Duke Ellington at a piano, supported by three columns depicting three caryatids each, known as his nine muses. It was cast in 1997 and dedicated on July 1 of that year. Pianist Bobby Short conceived of the memorial in 1979; it was the first statue erected in Ellington's honor in
58-501: A living room or a beach scene. Some of these interactions included sexual congress. Graham's 1986 monument to the boxer Joe Louis is a 24-foot (7.3 m) bronze fist and forearm. He has created hundreds of nude figures and groupings in intermediate scales. Graham's first major monumental commission was the ceremonial gateway for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for the occasion of the 1984 Olympics. He also designed
87-477: A successful documentary in nine years. Ned Plimpton, a longtime Zissou fan whose mother has recently died, believes that Zissou is his father. After they meet at Zissou's latest premiere, Ned takes annual leave from his job as an airline pilot in Kentucky to join his crew. As Oseary Drakoulias, Zissou's producer, cannot find a financier for their latest documentary, Ned offers his inheritance. Eleanor feels her husband
116-479: Is devoured by a 10-meter-long, spotted creature Zissou describes as a "jaguar shark". For his next project, Zissou is determined to document the shark's destruction. The crew aboard Zissou's aging research vessel Belafonte includes his estranged wife Eleanor, chief strategist and financial backer; Pelé dos Santos, a safety expert and Brazilian guitarist who sings David Bowie songs in Portuguese; and Klaus Daimler,
145-682: Is manipulating Ned and leaves. Pregnant reporter Jane Winslett-Richardson comes to chronicle the voyage. Both Ned and Zissou are attracted to Jane and a love triangle develops between them. Klaus becomes jealous of the attention Zissou pays to Ned. On their mission to find the jaguar shark, the Belafonte steals tracking equipment from a remote station owned by more successful oceanographer (also Eleanor's ex-husband and Zissou's nemesis), Alistair Hennessey. They then sail into unprotected waters and are attacked by Filipino pirates, who steal Ned's money and kidnap Bill Ubell, "a bond company stooge" assigned to
174-465: Is overcome with emotion. Eleanor silently comforts him, as does Jane and the rest of the crew. At the premiere of the finished documentary (which is dedicated to Ned, who is acknowledged as Zissou's son), Zissou receives a standing ovation while waiting outside the theater for the premiere to finish. The crew returns triumphantly to the ship. Though the characters were inspired by such American novels as The Great Gatsby and The Magnificent Ambersons ,
203-639: The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles (2002). Graham married his first wife Joey Graham in 1959. They have one son, Steven, born in 1963. He married actress Anjelica Huston in 1992, and they resided in an unusual dwelling in Venice, Los Angeles . Huston refused to move to the bohemian area, where he'd been living for years, unless Graham designed a custom home that balanced security with beauty. The result
232-508: The Italian Riviera . The film was released to mixed reviews and was a box office flop . In the decade following its release it has garnered a cult following , and is now viewed more positively by both critics and fans. It was also since remastered and re-released by The Criterion Collection in 2014. While oceanographer Steve Zissou is working on his latest documentary at sea, his best friend and chief diver, Esteban du Plantier,
261-652: The San Francisco Art Institute . He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964. By the late 1960s, Graham had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany. He, along with family members Joey and Steven, lived in London for a period before settling in Los Angeles in
290-480: The human figure , and are featured in public places across America. Graham was born in Mexico City , Mexico on August 19, 1938, to Roberto Pena and Adelina Graham. Roberto Pena died when his son was six years old, and the boy, his mother Adelina, his grandmother Ana, and his aunt Mercedes left Mexico and moved to San Jose, California . Robert Graham received his formal art training at San José State University and
319-451: The "jaguar shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau , to whom the film is dedicated. The film also features Owen Wilson , Cate Blanchett , Willem Dafoe , Michael Gambon , Jeff Goldblum , Anjelica Huston , and Bud Cort . Seu Jorge has a minor part, but contributes heavily to the film's soundtrack . It was filmed in and around Rome , Naples , Ponza , and
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#1733093895135348-466: The 1960s-1980s, and several instrumental pieces composed by Sven Libaek for the underwater documentary television series Inner Space. Additionally, the film and soundtrack feature Seu Jorge performing David Bowie songs in Portuguese on the acoustic guitar. Jorge, who also plays the character of Pelé dos Santos, performs some of these cover songs live, in character during the film, mostly with modified lyrics reflecting Jorge's own experiences working on
377-493: The Arts . The induction ceremony took place on December 15, 2008, but he was too ill to attend. His son Steven accepted the award on his behalf as he was inducted alongside 11 other legendary Californians. After an illness of about six months, Graham died on December 27, 2008, at Santa Monica – UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles. His funeral was held at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels , which has bronze doors that Graham created for
406-527: The German first mate who views Zissou and Esteban as father figures. Other crew members include Vikram Ray, cameraman; Bobby Ogata, frogman; Vladimir Wolodarsky, physicist and soundtrack composer; Renzo Pietro, sound man; and Anne-Marie Sakowitz, a script girl. Also included is a recent group of unpaid interns from the University of North Alaska . However, the "Team Zissou" venture has hit a decline, having not released
435-583: The cathedral. His remains are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Mortuary & Mausoleum . The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 American adventure comedy-drama film written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach and directed by Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature-length film and was released in the United States on December 25, 2004. The film stars Bill Murray as Steve Zissou, an eccentric oceanographer who sets out with his crew to exact revenge on
464-427: The commemorative silver dollar for the event. The gateway featured two bronze torsos, male and female, modeled on contestants in the games. The gateway was a major design element of an Olympiad noted for its lack of new construction. To the surprise of many, the nudity of the torsos became an issue in the media. After 1984, Graham received many other commissions for monumental works, such as The Great Bronze Doors of
493-482: The country. This New York City –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a sculpture in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Robert Graham (sculptor) Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a Mexican-born American sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate
522-566: The early 1970s. His first solo exhibition in a museum was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1972. Since then he has had dozens of one-man shows, including several at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Graham used a range of materials and scales in his work. In the 1970s he created very small wax sculptures (circa 4 inches (10 cm)) in miniature dioramas , depicting people interacting in various contemporary environments, such as
551-443: The film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale. Anthony Lane , a film reviewer for The New Yorker , agreed with the conventional criticism of Anderson's deadpan style: that the underreaction of Anderson's characters used to be "hip" but has now become "frozen into a mannerism." He said that "some stretches of action" in the film are being "lightly held within quotation marks," with an "unmistakable air of playacting" in even
580-530: The film were mixed. The film has a 57% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 226 reviews, with an average rating of 6.10/10; the website's consensus states: "Much like the titular oceanographer, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ' s overt irony may come off as smug and artificial – but for fans of Wes Anderson's unique brand of whimsy, it might be worth the dive." The film has a 62/100 weighted average score on Metacritic , indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave
609-424: The film, such as the rhinestone bluefin, crayon ponyfish, wild snow-mongoose, electric jellyfish, and sugar crabs. The animation work was done by Henry Selick . The soundtrack to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou contains a style typical of other Wes Anderson films. Mark Mothersbaugh , a member of Devo , composed the score, as he has for many of Anderson's other films. The film also features many rock songs from
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#1733093895135638-444: The film. The ending scene depicting the beauty of the shark features the song " Starálfur " by Sigur Rós . The Life Aquatic is Anderson's first film not to feature a Rolling Stones song. The film grossed a total of $ 24,020,403 domestically after twelve weeks in release, less than half its $ 50 million production budget. It took in a further $ 10,788,000 internationally, bringing the total gross to $ 34,808,403. Initial reviews of
667-413: The most violent scenes. He also criticized the film's deliberately "weird" set ups, which leave the viewer with "the impression of having nearly drowned in some secret and melancholy game." In the years since its initial release it has developed a cult following , and it underwent a critical reevaluation. Many critics view it more favorably, and some, such as Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club , consider
696-511: The plot has been compared to Moby-Dick . Writing about the metaphorical aspects of the film's setting—somewhere in the Mediterranean—film critic Elena Past says that the underwater scenes, because they are central to the storyline, make The Life Aquatic similar in some ways to Respiro . Both films set out a "Mediterranean state of being" where "having left the security of land, the characters in both films are suddenly confronted with
725-456: The precarious nature of human existence, as the films that depict them tackle the challenges of representing the submarine world." James Gray originally signed on to play Wolodarsky but he left when he learned that he was going to spend five months in Italy. In addition to the luminescent-spotted jaguar shark, other fictional lifeforms (some stop-motion-animated ) are cited and appear throughout
754-426: The project. They are then rescued by Hennessey and towed to Port-au-Patois. Sakowitz, along with all but one of the interns, jumps ship once they reach port. Zissou persuades Eleanor to rejoin the Belafonte and then leads the crew on a rescue mission. They track Bill to an abandoned hotel on a remote island, saving him along with Hennessey, whom the pirates have also kidnapped. Ned and Zissou make one last search for
783-438: The shark in the ship's helicopter, but the aircraft malfunctions and they crash. Ned dies from his injuries and is buried at sea . Prior to Ned's death, Eleanor revealed to Jane that Zissou is sterile and therefore Ned could not have been his son. Zissou finally tracks down the shark in a submersible but decides not to kill it, both because of its beauty and being out of dynamite. He ponders, "I wonder if it remembers me," and
812-535: Was a remarkable home behind a long, solid cement wall to separate them from the well-traveled sidewalks: it was nicknamed the fortress. Graham made a cameo appearance in Huston's movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou , as the Venezuelan general near the beginning of the film standing on the deck of the ship. Wes Anderson mentions in the movie's commentary that Graham has some aspects in common with Steve Zissou. He
841-589: Was interviewed in Visiting... with Huell Howser Episode 411. In 1983, Graham was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008, that Graham would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame , located at The California Museum for History, Women and
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