It feels like a very central character, this beautiful mansion.
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LH: Light has become a central character in my work.
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The central character becomes more human by becoming less human.
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Giuliani has been a central character in the impeachment saga.
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Peters is a central character in Microsoft's open source strategy.
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In my theatrical repertoire, I rarely played the central character.
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It's a fantastic interstellar adventure that follows an impressive central character.
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The film's central character is a hot dog named Frank (Rogen).
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The family itself is the central character, a single, complicated organism.
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The second central character is a Creole musician named Isadore Zeno.
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In a surprising twist, Gears 5 makes Kait a central character.
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In my novel, I chose to make influenza the central character.
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Yet "Gentleman Jack" strives too hard to make its central character likeable.
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It focuses on central character Geoff, head of innovation at the company.
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With a central character this profane, "Fleabag" is not to everyone's taste.
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Giuliani has been a central character in the impeachment saga as well.
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The yellow house of the title may be this book's central character.
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A young man asked her about a central character modeled on Tupac.
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In "The Silence of the Girls", Pat Barker makes Briseis her central character.
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Like its central character, "Son of Zorn" basically attempts to bridge those worlds.
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A local police chief, played by David Harbour, is also a central character.
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Why did you decide to make Edison such a central character in the book?
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In all of their paintings' light' either internal or external' is a central character.
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The way the central character is treated is exactly what you should not do.
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That's Donna Sheridan, the first film's central character, played by Meryl "Dancing Queen" Streep.
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Its preschool series "Doc McStuffins" has an African-American girl as its central character.
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And yet the show probably isn't going to kill off its central character and star.
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He has written a likeable, funny and thoughtful book with an endearingly frustrating central character.
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There is no central character; the plot follows several protagonists inhabiting distinct, though intermingling, storylines.
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Or were you comfortable with it being named after you, and being the central character?
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This shocking news begs the question: how will the show write off its central character?
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If you're writing a YA dystopia, these are the qualities your central character must have.
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Firebase is a collection of scenes that spell out the world and the central character.
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Flynn is a central character in the entire drama — and his fate could prefigure Trump's.
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It's a journalism novel; one central character is an editor who chases the creature's story.
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The pragmatic reason is that the central character in the movie is a basketball player.
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Poets love making God a central character in the poem but hate fleshing him out.
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Chuck gradually became the show's central character, and his chilly cynicism became its animating perspective.
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But even with a cipher-like central character, "What She Said" proves to be improbably illuminating.
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Winnie, the central character — really the only one — is immured in earth up to her waist.
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In a way I was carving Andreas Egger, the book's central character, out of my heart.
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Like the other games, it features the loveably hard-assed Kiryu Kazuma as its central character.
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Archer, the central character in the transgender playwright MJ Kaufman's "Sagittarius Ponderosa," used to be Angela.
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The show's central character is budding poet and politician Ezekiel (known on stage as MC Books).
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KC: Eugenia, your central character in the story, is born with a natural gift for ice skating.
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In real time, the show's central character combats the one person she's yet to confront this season.
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Legion is even more driven by the unique powers of its central character, rather than superhero tropes.
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He's been an appealing central character, propped up by a cast of crooks Elmore Leonard would envy.
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I think what [the showrunner Alex Gansa] wanted to do was not just "off" a central character.
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The catalog featured an iconic central character, the Cowboy Nomad, who served as symbol and role model.
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In truth, the show doesn't explore much of anything; it, like its central character, just meanders along.
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Like its central character, the film doesn't believe in anything other than its own right to exist.
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Sure, in many ways it appears to be a film critical of its central character, Ray Kroc.
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When I first began "The Handmaid's Tale" it was called "Offred," the name of its central character.
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Why do we never learn the real name of the central character, I have often been asked.
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Would the central character in a Russian election hijack plot actually self-disclose his trip in advance?
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Instead, his greatest contribution to the NBA's arc is being a central character in a morality play.
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But it was still about the prey, not the pursuer, and Mr. Glenister became the new central character.
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Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi), the central character on grown-ish, is the first example that comes to mind.
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Ghost in the Shell fell victim almost immediately the the controversy surrounding the whitewashing of its central character.
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Fans derided the company for neglecting to include the central character in the initial set, so Hasbro backpedaled.
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More to the point, it's not outlandish enough to be worthy of its larger-than-life central character.
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Its central character entertains dreams of flying, spurred on by an encounter with a quartet of birdlike performers.
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It quickly becomes clear, however, that the book's central character is neither Roosevelt nor any of these men.
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I told him that I grew up in circumstances that allowed me to relate to its central character.
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And don't forget Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird," with its nuanced mother-daughter relationship and self-confident central character.
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It also sets up a central character trait, her penchant for eating whatever at any time of day.
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This wasn't because the scene was particularly graphic but because Melfi was a central character in the show.
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In 22014, adult viewers got Kima Greggs (Sonja Sohn), a central character on HBO's "The Wire" (22017-22013).
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That's not to say, of course, that Trump isn't still the central character of the midterm election campaign.
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Despite large sections devoted to the girls, Wade and Ann, the novel's central character and cipher is Jenny.
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Colombia — with its lush forests, spectacular colonial cities, resourceful and family-oriented people — is a central character in Narcos.
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Lion's central character, though adopted by a middle-class Australian couple, has roots deep in a slum in India.
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"We can't wait for the warmth and intelligence she'll bring to our central character," Dunham and Konner told HBO.
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In Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son players embody Phil Connors Jr., the son of Groundhog Day's central character.
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This makes sense, since the central character, Cleo (played with acute nuance by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio), is a maid.
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Langford plays the central character Hannah Baker, who has already killed herself by the opening lines of the pilot.
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Yet several executives passed, partly because the heroes were teenagers—and partly because the central character was a woman.
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The creature is a central character of the Pokémon anime series and is widely regarded as the brand's mascot.
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Its central character, K, played by Ryan Gosling, is a replicant, one charged with hunting down his misbehaving brethren.
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One central character that falls flat is David Harding, a British officer played by Tony Award winner Richard McCabe.
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This makes its absence from the Woodward book, in which Porter is a central character, all the more conspicuous.
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If there is a central character in "Flights" then it is the human body, which is built to suffer.
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Collins became a central character in the story of the Senate almost as soon as she arrived in Washington.
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The central character in the book is a boy named Finn who lives in a house by the sea.
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Its central character is Nora (Marie Leuenberger), a young and unassuming housewife whose friends and compatriots are demanding the vote.
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In the fairy tale romance of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, designer Ralph Lauren is very much a central character.
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Chucky is the central character in a whopping eight movies, plus one TV series that is reportedly on its way.
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In another, Carrie is joined by the Dude, the central character from the 1998 Coen brothers movie The Big Lebowski.
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Dustin Henderson, a central character on the show played by Gaten Matarazzo, sported the museum's hoodie on the show. (CNBC)
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"Can't wait to leave dis godforsaken place," says Margot, the book's central character, as she rides to work one morning.
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The central character has learned it from his grandmother; it is not a story Mr. Khan heard from his grandmother.
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I feel as though I'm in a bizarre French New Wave film, with the central character a study in sainthood.
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He recently just wrapped up shooting on a Christmas film titled Fir Trees 0003 where he plays a central character.
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Its mysterious central character is a traumatized woman who might be the narrator's younger self or one of her victims.
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In the long-running narrative detailing the internet's decimation of the media business, Viacom figures as its first central character.
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The third central character is Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife in the late 1940s who feels suffocated by her life.
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The central character of Vivienne Franzmann's "Bodies," at the Royal Court Theater, is also found wanting by her own child.
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Issue No. 192, in June, chronicled the death of Rick Grimes, the central character since the series premiere in 2003.
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The book's central character is probably Jon, an orphan who is taunted because his absent father was not a Lamaleran.
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From what we've seen, it looks like J-Law has her work cut out for her as the story's central character.
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As for how the show will continue without Miller's central character, creator Alec Berg said he's excited about the clean slate.
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Langford plays the central character Hannah Baker, a teenager who commits suicide after experiencing prolonged bullying at her new high school.
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When you look at the best superhero movies, the motor that drives them is a fundamental understanding of the central character.
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Rockefeller's life is vivid enough, though he is more of a presence snaking menacingly through the book than a central character.
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"The public narrative of Mueller's investigation this year has often described its central character more as myth than man," they wrote.
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Dining with two important friends in a local cemetery, the central character —Carrington herself — is told she has won the lottery.
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It focuses on conspiracy theories that surround two political murders in Colombia, with Mr. Vásquez making himself the book's central character.
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The central character in Christopher Cantwell's small-scale thriller, "The Parts You Lose," is a lonely 10-year-old named Wesley.
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The central character here is Dalhi Meyers, a councilwoman in Richland County, who says she started out as a Biden supporter.
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But there was nothing for "Moonlight"s three main actors, who play the central character at different stages of his life.
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It's central character, however, is Mija — a young girl who seeks to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her friend.
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The last time Les Mis hit the big screen, Hugh Jackman played 24601 — aka Jean Valjean, the central character in the musical.
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The movie's second trailer arrived today alongside an even creepier component: an Etsy shop, ostensibly curated by the movie's deranged central character.
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Its central character, Angela (Regina King), is a black woman detective who dresses up in a mask and costume when she's working.
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I think there are some pretty compelling reasons for killing off the show's central character and making Scandal better as a result.
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And the central character, Opie Macleod, searched for answers as a Methodist neo-Nazi before he invested in self-betterment through Jediism.
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The central character, Mathilde (Lou de Laâge, of "Breathe"), is a young doctor caring for French soldiers in a Red Cross hospital.
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We follow the central character, Nicholas Jenkins, from school days through World War II to eventual old age as a respected novelist.
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The story in the picture, about the boy discovering honey in forest, is one the central character has learned from his grandmother.
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The central character in Brown's novel is a free-spirited Berkeley supermom named Billie, missing for a year and now presumed dead.
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I can still remember the electricity I felt watching the show's central character, Jenny, fall for a seductive Italian woman named Marina.
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On Thursday, however, others were forced to defend the sport because of an unflattering narrative in which Baffert was a central character.
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In 2007, Clinch brought out "Finn," a technically praiseworthy first novel that elevates Huck's good-for-nothing father to central-character status.
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And it's hard to have a love fest when the central character can't stop bragging about what a big winner he is.
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And there's a minister, Reverend Dave (David A.R. White), who later becomes a more central character in God's Not Dead's two sequels.
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I want to see productions where race, gender, creed or sexual orientation is not a disadvantage for the central character to overcome.
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Instead of the jarring feeling of a character breaking the fourth wall, the gesture places you within the story as a central character.
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Season 2 picks up immediately after the end of season 1, immediately introducing a new central character: a Martian Marine named Bobbie Draper.
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We love Jennifer's restraint and comedic timing, and we can't wait for the warmth and intelligence she'll bring to our central character, Kathryn.
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By 1983, she'd become the central character of Albedo Anthropomorphics, an anthology that is often credited with starting the furry comic-book genre.
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Especially if you then go on to be a central character in Eastenders for a decade, lighting up sitting rooms across the country.
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That show, too, had a central character who could be a little dull, and a narrative that insisted his dullness was the point.
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Seemingly struggling to remember the name of the central character, Graham noted that he thought "of Ed Sheeran" to help jog his memory.
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VICE: Ingrid Goes West resembles a darker, digital-age Clueless—lampooning the excesses of a generation, while ultimately sympathetic to its central character.
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Price seems interested in making the town itself the central character at the expense of its residents, although certain voices, including Ditka's, predominate.
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Like Towles's prose, his central character, an aristocrat, is refined, radiantly witty and all the more compelling for being utterly out of place.
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But neither of these "clever" responses to her situation occur to Esther Greenwood, who is the narrator and central character in this novel.
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Millions of people downloaded it; they processed what they heard about the eccentric, sometimes obsessive life of its central character; they were riveted.
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Despite a concept that defies simple description, this South Side story draws viewers in, while making Chicago a central character to what transpires.
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Holden, the central character, is a boy when Monday's two-hour premiere begins, but only long enough to be injured in an accident.
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Meyers is a central character in the book who alters the course of Tortorella's life from the preface to the very last chapter.
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It captures the unease of the central character within seemingly well-ordered Japan that the review suggests the crime novel conveys so well.
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Carl's death shook readers of the comic books, where he's still very much alive and is, in many ways, the story's most central character.
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Newland Archer, the central character, is, like Wharton herself, someone who has lived long enough to see the ideals of his youth become outdated.
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The lawyer is Amir Kapoor, the central character in Ayad Akhtar's play "Disgraced", which recently completed a run at the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT).
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The story's central character, a young tutor who died unexpectedly, reunites with his ex-wife and adoptive father over the course of a week.
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Haemi Lee, the central character of Crystal Hana Kim's wrenching debut If You Leave Me, sees her conception of "normal" completely erased by war.
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The swirling landscape of wooden shards often surround a central character, whether he is a leaping buck or lost-in-the-rain wooden doll.
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Moonlight, like its central character, never gives up hope: It never takes a shortcut, it never does anything cheaply, and it never compromises itself.
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The new Colbert seems to be a slightly more macho, and definitely more likely to shop at Kohls version of the Comedy Central character.
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The film also valuably focuses on examining one's own values, choices and actions, with Fox doing so by positioning himself as the central character.
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"Many shows simply end once they lose a central character," said Andrew Selepak, professor in the department of telecommunication at the University of Florida.
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But that's Hope Annabelle Greggory, a former Olympic gymnast and the central character in the dark comedy "The Bronze," due on Friday, March 18.
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Bringing to life 60s/70s counter culture in an Eyes Wide Shut orgy of drugs, the Alice-like central character takes a spiritual journey.
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He was the show's central character, and the ripple effect of his death looks to be one of its primary story threads going forward.
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Andrew, on the other hand, who is the central character … It's true that when you get to their deaths, Andrew is this despicable figure.
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The central character is Brian Keane, a 52-year-old Democrat from Arlington, Virgina, and the co-founder and CEO of a software company.
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That's what drew me to the story of Alastair Mactaggart, the central character in this Sunday's magazine cover story about the war over privacy.
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Like the central character in "Through the Looking-Glass," most readers grasp the gist of the poem "Jabberwocky": "somebody killed something," Alice concludes. Drs.
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How did she evolve in your mind over the decades and why did you decide to make her a central character in the sequel?
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In some respects, this is more wholly realized than "Sons of Anarchy" was in its early stages, certainly in terms of the central character.
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In 2001, he directed "Pistol Opera", a sequel of sorts to "Branded to Kill," this time with a female assassin as the central character.
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Even if it might make your heart flutter, bringing Jimmy/Steve/Jack back wouldn't be closure, it'd be pretty cruel to the series' central character.
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The central character was a combination of vulnerable, hardened and sensual in a way I didn't believe was possible to accurately display on the screen.
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In this Cinderella comedy with a nod to Jane Austen, the central character, Rachel Chu, is a Chinese-American economics professor from a modest background.
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The company caught attention when it announced that Henry Cavill (Superman in the DC Cinematic Universe films) would play the central character, Geralt of Rivia.
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Highsmith writes about falling in love with Carol, a central character in her 1952 novel, "The Price of Salt," which she published under a pseudonym.
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The lawyer is Amir Kapoor, the central character in Ayad Akhtar's play "Disgraced", which completes a run this week at the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT).
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Rick Grimes is a central character in The Walking Dead universe, for both the TV series and the comic books on which it is based.
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The famously vicious 1980s puppet show "Spitting Image", broadcast on the main commercial channel ITV, had a grotesquely domineering Margaret Thatcher as its central character.
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While the central character discovers that he has, perhaps inevitably, an evil twin, the fraternal bonding that ensues isn't despicable as much as simply tiresome.
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Its central character, George Minafer—the grandson of the most magnificent of the Ambersons—is a thoroughly dislikable boy and young man: selfish, indulged, unkind.
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We quickly learn Robbie Gibbons, an affable Alabama man battling weight issues, is a central character and the series' very own Hurley Reyes (Jorge Garcia).
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Its icy aura of inevitability befits a film whose central character goes from client to client like a polite, expressionless deputy of the Grim Reaper.
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Though at first it seems like this fish is a bit of scenery, it actually turns out to be a central character in the movie.
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A brief report in the Paperback Row column last Sunday about "The Prize," by Jill Bialosky, misstated the given name of the novel's central character.
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We already know what it's like to have the rug pulled out from under us, to see a seemingly central character end up brutally murdered.
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It's hard to decide whether the central character in Farr's novel is a saint, a martyr or just more zenlike than the rest of us.
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It offers a satisfyingly expressionist vision of trauma and mental derangement, in which everything onstage seems to emanate from the mind of the central character.
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There are significant challenges to overcome, not least the lack of a central character to arrest the reader's attention and carry it through the book.
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" Cartoon by Sharon Levy The four founding Aunts are Vidala, Helena, Elizabeth, and Lydia—the last of whom is the central character in "The Testaments.
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I think all of us, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, have to identify with our central character, but with Smiley it seems like a dialogue.
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In one, "Silent Prayer," a mute, paralyzed Vietnam veteran is the central character, surrounded by a gabby family and watched over by a mute God.
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" The key was to develop a central character for the story to rest on, "someone who embodied the pain, sadness, and rage present in clipping's song.
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But how does a reporter go about telling a story in which the central character is dead and the reporter was not there when it happened?
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NDiaye's novel succeeds so far, but falters at depicting the motherhood of its central character; it seems unsure about how such a mother ought to be.
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The film is a meandering examination of a central character — a woman named Mavis (Charlize Theron) who peaked as a popular mean girl in high school.
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The central character, a desperate prostitute, found passion and agency in her difficult life, as does Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), the child protagonist of "The Florida Project".
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The brainchild of British writer-director Dominic Garfield, who also plays the central character Mowgli in the musical, opens on Friday at Edinburgh's famous Fringe Festival.
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On March 30, Dove will start accepting submissions — and, if chosen, you could be the central character of your own mini movie series produced by Rhimes.
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"Gears of War" took a former football player/wrestler and turned him into "Cole Train"-- a central character in the game -- and then stiffed him royally.
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Also in 2015, "Terminator: Genisys" restaged several sequences from "The Terminator", and, like "Creed", it had a lovably creaky incarnation of its once-godlike central character.
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Spider-Man, the latest game from Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games, understands this core tenet of its central character, and it's what makes the game sing.
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In some ways, Barry Cohen, the central character of Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success, resembles the hapless, straight, male protagonists of the author's earlier novels.
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Fans of the Netflix series "Stranger Things" know that Dustin Henderson, a central character on the show played by Gaten Matarazzo, rocks some great '80s sweatshirts.
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Kirsten, the central character, is part of a troupe that travels among the remaining towns scattered across North America, performing mostly Shakespeare, to keep spirits afloat.
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Like the mind of its central character, Kidding starts to grow scattered, cycling through a range of tones and pursuing separate story threads and character arcs.
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Mr. Spacey, who played the central character, Frank Underwood, a ruthless politician who becomes president, was shown the door amid allegations of sexual misconduct last year.
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But she always wanted to write a novel with an animal as a central character, and was moved by stories of dogs mourning for their owners.
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Like the central character in "Conversations With Friends," like perhaps nearly all teenage girls, Marianne is an ugly duckling and a swan at the same time.
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Dud, a sweet-sad little Lebowski, is the central character, but the ensemble quickly grows more interesting, particularly his sister, Liz (a terrific, sardonic Sonya Cassidy).
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The book's central character is Jude, who has a troubled past that unfolds slowly; Yanagihara provides sharp insight into his struggles as a disabled gay man.
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Manju is this novel's central character, but Mr. Adiga nimbly jumps between his perspective and that of a handful of other characters, most of them men.
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It also conjures the ambiguity of its central character, a self-mythologizing showman trailed by a whiff of corruption and not averse to shading the truth.
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Plenty to enjoy on its own terms, then, as a slick, well-observed thriller, but what adds depth are the perspectives offered by the central character.
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But its central character isn't a person so much as a plot function, a mouthpiece who forwards Eggers' agenda without developing a personality that would explain it.
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If there is anything wrong with it, it may be that Mr Cuarón reveres his central character so much that he ends up distancing himself from her.
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In an interview with HBO on Medium, Sofia Black D'Elia, who plays the central character, talked about the role and what viewers can expect from the series.
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This week, he'll become a movie star, appearing as a central character in a feature-length documentary called The Great Hack, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Hannah, who began the show as the central character around which all the other characters revolved, has recently found herself in the same orbit as everyone else.
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In that earlier series, Winter eventually leaned into the fact that his central character (Steve Buscemi's gangster Nucky Thompson) was less interesting than essentially everybody else onscreen.
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Early in the novel, its extremely unlikeable central character, Howard Roark, is expelled from his college architecture department, because he just wants to be an individual, man!
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Sometimes this is blood, seeping from an animal, but sometimes it's a scarf of a beloved central character; eventually, ominously, the red spreads and becomes the sky.
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The story's central character, Eva, is born into a food-obsessed family and soon displays preternatural gifts of her own, using cooking to overcome a childhood tragedy.
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Its central character, Meadow, is a less sympathetic version of Mina in "Lightning Field" — another alienated woman, who lives her life through movies, craving detachment and control.
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Could you have predicted, when Molly learned how to be a cancer sniffer, that Max would retain that talent and use it to diagnose a central character?
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Patton Oswalt voices the central character, Max, a Jack Russell terrier portrayed in the original by Louis C.K., who fell from favor after revelations of sexual misconduct.
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The movie's central character, Cleo, is a housekeeper of Mixtec heritage (one of Mexico's largest indigenous groups) who works for an affluent family in 210s Mexico City.
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But there is no figure like the central character in the film, "The Omen," a cunning son of Satan with the number 666 stenciled on his body.
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In varying parts philosophical action-adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, it is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character.
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The playlist could include a clip from the movie "American History X," whose white supremacist central character undergoes a transformation after befriending a black man in prison.
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In one scene, the upper-caste politician refuses a drink of water at the home of the central character, who is a lower caste man played by Rajinikanth.
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Sara, there is scene where Gia Marie Love, a transwoman and central character, curses out a young boy who taunts her while you guys are walking down street.
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"The only similarities that we have with the 'Roseanne ' show is that we're a family sitcom and that the central character has a more conservative view," Abbott explained.
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My central character, Dot Braden [a schoolteacher from Virginia], described lots of pregnant women and not a lot of stigma if they weren't married when they were pregnant.
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Playing his now-retired Comedy Central character, an egotistic conservative talk show host, Mr. Colbert mockingly defended the Iraq war and the Washington press corps' coverage of it.
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Here, wearing a filmy full-length brown dress, she's at times paired with Nicholas Coppula (even taller), at times with Matthew Dibble (shorter but another central character here).
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Waldfogel is quick to detach himself from any claims that he has become synonymous with Charles Dickens' central character, Ebenezer Scrooge, in the 1843 novella 'A Christmas Carol'.
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The show was criticized during its run for making the promiscuous, neurotic, commitment-phobic Patrick its central character, as if he were standing in for all gay men.
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Olivier Werner, who plays the nameless central character with a sense of manic despair, initially appears to show up at his ex-girlfriend's door, much to her distress.
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I am not referring to the central character in Mr. Stone's contemporary riff on Federico García Lorca's poetic tragedy from 1934, though the same questions could certainly apply.
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After a far-reaching audition process, Mr. Fuller wanted Sonequa Martin-Green, a star of AMC's "The Walking Dead," to play the central character, First Officer Michael Burnham.
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When we meet Tom Parfitt, the elderly central character in the PBS mini-series "Remember Me," he has just fallen down a flight of stairs in his home.
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And in recent weeks he has become the central character of an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory after Attorney General Bill Barr began reviewing the origins of the Russia investigation.
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Over the next eight months, Lam would find himself the unwitting central character in a saga that would hardly feel out of place in one of his thrillers.
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His widow, Marina (MyAnna Buring), is the central character in a quest for justice; Ms. Prebble channels the indignation that has presumably only intensified within Marina over time.
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An obituary on Sunday about the author and broadcaster Frank Delaney, an authority on James Joyce's "Ulysses," referred incorrectly to Leopold Bloom, the central character of that novel.
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Loughlin had played a central character in series until the network cut ties with her in March, following news of her alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal.
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Clenching my jaw to stop my teeth chattering, I squeezed my eyes shut and reminded myself how I'd come to be a central character in this horror story.
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Its central character is a legendary, leonine Hollywood director, Jake Hannaford (played by John Huston), who is having a chaotic party in his mansion to celebrate his 70th birthday.
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We're in the angsty post-teen territory of MTV and CW, with a central character on antidepressants and get-togethers in dark New York bars rather than crenelated aeries.
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Certainly, The Rachel Divide attempts nuance in conversations bigger than Dolezal, but it may be for an audience that is not open to it because of its central character.
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Like Bartolo—the central character in "The Barber of Seville", a buffoon-like doctor of medicine with ambitions that supersede his abilities—Mr Trump is sung by a bass.
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The exclusion is frustrating for the fans behind the hashtag #WheresRey, which asks why she's missing from the movie's merchandise — despite being the latest Star Wars film's central character.
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In this deep and thoughtful piece, Sarah Boxer examines the theory that the emergence of Snoopy — the narcissistic upright-walking beagle — as the strip's central character is to blame.
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But he gives the film a memorable central character, one who steps beyond the class-war metaphor to become a larger symbol of the dangers and pleasures of submission.
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Fans criticized the company earlier this year when its newest Monopoly was released without a Rey figure, even though she's a central character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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An immersive thriller as well as a provocative alternative history, "Underground Airlines" showcases a fully realized central character who believes his own disturbing past can be kept safely buried.
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This production by Andreas Mitisek — with videos by Hana S. Kim and with LaMarcus Miller singing the central character, Philip — had its premiere this year at Long Beach Opera.
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There's a central character in the film, a single mother and human rights lawyer fighting for the people who have been negatively affected by the radiation in the city.
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They also all center on an American central character transformed in one way or another by a place that was not a country but a vehicle for American metamorphosis.
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A 2015 young-adult novel by Julie Murphy provides the basis for this film, whose title comes from the nickname that its central character is given by her mother.
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The book's real central character is the virus itself, a mysterious, deadly and even ingenious villain that hides its handiwork from the scientists trying to understand and stop it.
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Her captor is the same man that Markus Novak, a private investigator and the central character, believes killed his wife, drawing together a painful personal reckoning and terrorist plot.
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Check, in many ways the central character, has a fascinating personal history: Her father is both a slave owner and a well-known soldier; her husband is an abolitionist.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about the author and broadcaster Frank Delaney, an authority on James Joyce's "Ulysses," referred incorrectly to Leopold Bloom, the central character of that novel.
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The central character is the terminally ill materfamilias Vanessa (played with perfect pitch by Kathryn Rossetter), who has invited us over for what seems to be her last party.
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Sunday night's episode saw central character Floyd Mooney (Jay Pharoah) still side-eyeing the inappropriately sexual situations he finds himself in as he tries to advance his burgeoning acting career.
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The central character is Elodie (Brianna Hildebrand from the "Deadpool" movies), who wanders through life with a confused, surly attitude that's especially prevalent in TV and movie takes on adolescence.
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Its central character is Max (Wesley Snipes, very good), a family man and semi-pretentious commercial director whom we first meet in his old stomping grounds of New York City.
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What's incredible, though, is that when he dreamed up Baby Driver—arguably the first film to make the iPod a central character—most people were still making each other mixtapes.
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The book follows a group of four friends over many decades, and for the central character, Jude, just about everything bad that can happen to a protagonist pretty much happens.
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Fuller described the show as a search for identity for its central character: "In order to understand something that's completely alien from her, she has to understand herself," he said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - What if the central character of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was an unraveling hedge-fund manager on the lam in the era of Donald Trump?
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Speaking of which: Mr. Colbert's revival of his Comedy Central character and his zany turn as Flickerman reminded us that he's TV's best performance artist not currently running for president.
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A great fear of single urbanites comes unhappily true for the central character in "A Life," a bleak new play by Adam Bock that opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons.
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This production by Andreas Mitisek — with videos by Hana S. Kim and with LaMarcus Miller singing the central character, Philip — had its premiere at Long Beach Opera earlier this year.
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Chelsea was such a central character to the show, and explaining away her absence would've meant she went overseas or died — or, even worse, had a falling out with Raven.
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In High Wages, the central character is named Jane, a young woman on her own in 1912, and all she wants in the world is to open her own shop.
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The cast is large and memorable and I learned a lot from Powell about how to write about a central character who ages over the course of an extended sequence.
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Rich frames his narrative through a central character, Rafe Pomerance, a Friends of the Earth lobbyist who first came across the issue of global warming in a 1979 E.P.A. report.
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Absence will run through the core of "The Sweetest Fruits," a book in which the nominally central character, the man around whom the narrative is structured, rarely comes into focus.
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There was a crucial central character — an intelligent sea creature named Abe Sapien — who necessitated a full-body costume and elaborate facial makeup that took seven hours to apply before filming.
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Clive Owen and Jin Ha in M. Butterfly When M. Butterfly premiered on Broadway in 1988, audiences were stunned to discover that the central character, Song Liling, was actually a man.
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Of course, neither Trump nor his adversaries are identified by name in the game (the central character is named "Donald Jrump"), but it's fairly obvious who's who based on the theme.
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Her jump to the fore as the central character in the adaptation of a incredibly popular YA novel presented Stewart with a massive public profile: an opportunity, but also a curse.
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The trailer established Tyrion played by the freshly Emmy-winning Peter Dinklage as the show's new central character, as well as affirming that the adaptation of the novels was continuing apace.
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Mannix, unlike Fink, is an inside man, and (no need to ask) a smooth operator—having him as our central character makes for a more comfortable viewing experience than Barton Fink.
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The first close-up on the central character is so detailed, you can see the fraying, stains, and stitching on his old shirt, and the rough nap of his corduroy vest.
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Mr. Williams was not a central character in many of the catastrophes that struck the Deepwater Horizon, but he was a significant character in a "60 Minutes" segment in May 2010.
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Sampha has read The Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying, a modern take on the 8th-century Tibetan Book of the Dead, read by the central character in Noé's film.
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This story's baffling central character is a glamorous and troubled woman in late-1950s England, who moves from job to job, changing her look and identity, compulsively embezzling money from employers.
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New controversies involving the nation's largest newspapers, top editors and cable news personalities have unfolded on a near-daily basis, making the press a central character in the 2020 presidential cycle.
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Yet despite a thoroughly modern central character, this impeccably costumed, wishy-washy period piece feels like it emerged from a PBS storage trunk, wrapped in tissue paper and reeking of mothballs.
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The cover of Sarah Perry's third novel depicts a tangle of dark feathers and a full moon; the central character, like so many protagonists of such tales, is haunted by her past.
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He's effectively been replaced by Jian Yang (Jimmy O. Yang), who has taken over Miller's role as the show's comedic relief and has become more of a central character in the story.
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" Atwood adds: "I am thrilled that MGM and Hulu are developing The Handmaid's Tale as a series, and extra thrilled that the very talented Elisabeth Moss will be playing the central character.
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Roth, whose publication of Portnoy's Complaint (22017) had turned him into a star, took an unexpected turn and wrote the novel Our Gang (211) with "Trick E. Dixon" as its central character.
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Like all shows that moved at such a frantic pace, it eventually became too ridiculous, but its central character dynamics were always so compelling that it could at least lean on those.
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Another central character in the book, Brendan Vatcher, becomes a celebrity for being the "last Newfoundlander," the last baby born in Newfoundland before it joined Canada at midnight on April 0003, 1949.
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The only thing that may give some younger solvers a run for their money is if they do not remember the book or TV series, "ROOTS," and the central character, Kunta KINTE.
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This Cher (last name Horowitz) is the central character of the affable but limp "Clueless, the Musical," which opened on Tuesday in a New Group production at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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It's an approach that often lacks a central character to guide the narrative, and it requires the viewer to actively participate and interpret the meaning as it relates to their own experience.
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Instead, it asks us to feel — truly feel — the pain and loss not only of its central character but also of everyone who surrounds him, and acknowledge the strength of those emotions.
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Mahershala Ali was tremendous playing versions of the central character at three distinct ages, and the final few episodes were a powerful evocation of memory and the way trauma haunts us endlessly.
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But then a character will wander in, and you realize "Okay, this is our central character because of her story," and you latch onto that person and try to stick with them.
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Of Ms. Allen's many Off Broadway roles, the most prominent was Sarah, the central character of "Funnyhouse of a Negro," Adrienne Kennedy's 1964 study of the nightmarish torments of a young black woman.
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In the opening pages of Bernice McFadden's Praise Song for the Butterflies, Abeo, the novel's central character, wets herself on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem, New York City.
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Jenkins' film restructured the play into three distinct acts, set to a mixture of hip-hop and powerful orchestral music, with the central character operating under different nicknames and identities in each act.
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On Friday, May 5th, when Netflix releases the second season of its original series Sense8, viewers will finally start getting a clearer idea of what's going on with Naveen Andrews' central character, Jonas.
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If Elsie Payne were here to see the comments that Bus Stop has recently generated on Instagram, including "What a beautiful central character with such poise and tenderness," she would hopefully feel gratified.
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The central character in "The Couplehood Jubilee" is a woman who rejects the commercialized and "oppressive" trappings of marriage, leaving her relationship with her longtime boyfriend in the hazy limbo of informal commitment.
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This isn't the last time that Yurika, the central character in "The Kingdom," will be threatened with a gun, nor will it be the last time she bluffs her way out of danger.
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Children should have no trouble suspending their disbelief, but they may be confused by the script's tendency to treat its central character as a human one moment and a metal monument the next.
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Friendly and a little mocking, Anna — the central character in Scott Organ's spine-tingling new play "The Thing With Feathers" — is less eager for this conversation than the older guy she's talking with.
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Mary is the central character of Catherine Lacey's second novel, which has the effortless sparkle and speed of something written by an author with a dozen novels behind her instead of just one.
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President Trump is not doing any favors, however, for HBO's "Veep" and its central character, the former president Selina Meyer (a role for which Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won five consecutive Emmy Awards).
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" Of the central character, an entitled young Englishwoman named Naomi, her father observes: "She wanted to be a Samaritan: the easiest job in the world, and perfect for the useless European middle classes.
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Drafthouse Films The film's central character is Adi, an eye doctor in his 40s who has spent his whole life living in the shadow of brother Ramli, who was killed in the massacre.
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It plays off the strengths of their biggest success, Wonder Woman, which largely ignored DC's universe and instead let director Patty Jenkins create a unique movie that was wholly devoted to its central character.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the central character, Laurel Healy, a would-be documentary filmmaker who goes to work handling constituent complaints and queries in the office of her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino).
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The central character, who moonlights as a low-level courier for American intelligence, has ended up in an unnamed Southeast Asian country where he gets entangled in an effort to overthrow the authoritarian government.
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Following the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans pointed out that its central character, Rey, was conspicuously absent from the first wave of toys, including Hasbro's new edition of Star Wars Monopoly.
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For "Veep" and its central character, Selina Meyer, the indignities associated with life as a former president are going to give way to a return to the foibles of life on the campaign trail.
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Take the Mission: Impossible series: In 2006's M:I III, Ethan Hunt's wife (Michelle Monaghan) is a central character in the film and significant emotional bargaining chip for Philip Seymour Hoffman's deranged Owen Davian.
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" ⬥ Milly Jackson, the central character in Alex Marwood's cruel and cunning mystery THE DARKEST SECRET (Penguin, paper, $16), is in her glory when she's among friends at a bar playing "Spot the Personality Disorder.
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Myrcella, Joffrey's younger sister who was shipped off to Dorne in season 2 and became a central character again in season 5, died at the hand of Ellaria Sand (or rather his lips, technically).
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The rule of thumb I used was: Did this artist use New York or the idea of New York—which is the central character of the book—as a launching pad in some way?
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This gabelle became permanent, giving rise to networks of smugglers and fomenting centuries of revolution and rebellion — even providing the central character in Balzac's novel "Les Chouans" — until it was officially nixed in 1945.
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By the end of "Hustlers," last year's class-war crime thriller about strippers ripping off plutocrats, the central character played by Constance Wu has hustled her way into what looks like the middle class.
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As a frontrunner to take on Donald Trump in 2020 and also a central character in the Ukraine scandal that finally saw an impeachment inquiry announced against the president, Biden's had a weird week.
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In Mexico and elsewhere, there's a growing movement for authors to write in indigenous languages — including Zapotec, a language of the region from which Cleo, the film's central character, and the family's maid hail.
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Since Netflix released the documentary "Making a Murderer" in mid-December, its imprisoned central character has received a wave of support, including more than 20063,22006 signatures on a petition asking President Obama to pardon him.
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We liked Rogue One when it hit theaters, but had some problems with it: we felt that the film's central character, Jyn Erso, was thinly defined, as was much of the rest of the cast.
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There was no reason to clamor for more "Breaking Bad" after the finale in 2013, which brought closure and a measure of redemption to the central character -- and more than 10 million viewers to AMC.
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Still, that may be asking too much of an audience that is likely fed up with the documentary's central character before they even watch the film — and that might find her completely odious after it.
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There are two problems with this episode: it doesn't spend any time building up our sympathies for the central character, a future army grunt nicknamed Stripe, before thrusting him into the thick of the action.
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That's partly why he makes such a memorable central character, whether in fiction or in nonfiction: He seems to know us well enough to touch us deeply, and yet we can never fully know him.
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"Whatever external details are changed … the sense of despair and loneliness implicit in the lifestyle of the central character must remain," Kroetz wrote in 1971 about how the play could be updated in future productions.
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The central character, Paul, has an early infatuation with a craftsman in Italy that provides the story line's loose framework; the plot skips ahead to find him years later, nearly unrecognizable in an acrimonious relationship.
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The column's author and central character, Candace Bushnell, was then a 35-year-old freelance writer with talent and charm and just as much anxiety over whether it was ever going to happen for her.
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Greenwell's masterly debut novel sketches out in fine detail the destabilizing experience of gay shame, both in rural Kentucky, where the central character grew up, and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The 37-page indictment centers on St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch dubbed "Putin's favorite chef," stars as the central character of the multi-pronged and robustly financed operation.
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The story is set during the Mexican-American War and involves one other central character, Nepomuceno, a New Mexican who fights on the Mexican side and is forced to secret himself home after the U.S. victory.
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The Many Saints of Newark may have been a mouthful of a title, but it had a certain ring to it, and it was a nod to the film's reported central character, Dickie Moltisanti, Christopher's dad.
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As the stories of these women spiral out around the static, vague central character, Smith turns her attention to the way race, class, and gender interact: in pop music, in schools, in politics, in vanity philanthropy.
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Outside of the central, character-driven fight between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, congressional Republicans largely campaigned, for the fourth consecutive election, on repealing Obamacare and exploited instability in the insurance exchanges to protect their majorities.
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But he paid homage to his father by making him the central character of his fourth novel, "A House for Mr Biswas," which is regarded by many as one of the greatest novels written in English.
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With one foot set in the 1960s, the novel's central character, Henry Lytten, is an Oxford fellow with a fondness for the fantasy landscapes of local celebrities like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
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But, as its central character does, Kidding seems to believe that there's a balancing good somewhere out there in the universe, or at least there's some good to be had in seeing the best in people.
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Killing the film's central character and biggest star, and killing her brutally, at the end of the first act, puts Psycho's audience on edge—for the rest of the film, it feels like anything could happen.
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And even as its central character Dud Dudley, a surfer played by Wyatt Russell, wrestles with various existential challenges, the show delivers more of a soak-in-it mood through its everyday dramas and modest secrets.
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I had done things with my proposal where I had suggested changing a major piece of lore in Dead Space, having to do with Michael Altman, this central character who's always talked about in the game.
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Miles (Chris O'Dowd), the central character in the likable new Epix take on "Get Shorty," is a minor Nevada mobster who, when a collection assignment takes him to Los Angeles, is bitten by the movie bug.
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A major departure from the Michael Bay-directed "Transformer" movies, this prequel has a lot of moments with an animated feel and a central character that has a different, more sensitive expressiveness than he's shown before.
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In an episode from the fifth season, a central character is traumatically raped by the show's most villainous presence, all while the camera chooses to focus on a man who is forced to watch the encounter.
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One focal moment is when we hear another central character, Cambridge Analytica's Brittany Kaiser, dispassionately recounting how data surpassed oil in value last year — as if that's all the explanation needed for the terrible behavior on show.
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Lewis, the central character in the first two volumes of March, is often reduced to a bystander in the third, a far cry from his media anointed status as one of the "Big Six" Civil Rights leaders.
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Sure, players are working within the confines and structure of the world that the developers set forth, but we get to be the central character and relate to the story on a uniquely personal and emotional level.
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One of the few interesting aspects of the central character here, a waitress named Jenna, played by Jessie Mueller, is that she is an unhappily married woman who gets pregnant and adamantly does not want the child.
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Mojdeh (Hedieh Tehrani), the central character of "Fireworks Wednesday," is a cold, haughty woman who suspects her husband, Morteza (Hamid Farokh-Nejad), of having an affair with Simin (Pantea Bahram), a divorced beautician, who lives next door.
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Jarrod Emick, who won a Tony for his role as Joe Hardy in the 1994 Broadway revival of "Damn Yankees," plays the central character, who is known as Tick among friends and whose performer name is Mitzi.
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He seemed a bit stunned by what looked like well-read but battered and foxed editions of his old Fawcett paperbacks; they are still precious to me with the unforgiving and distant Parker as their central character.
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And yet, once a long evening (nearly three hours) hits its stride after the intermission, the director plunges the audience into a moral abyss alongside his central character, Ruth Wolff (Juliet Stevenson), the doctor of the title.
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The scene is one in a 22006-panel work that has been through many a trial and tribulation, historically — a reality apparently foretold by the intense and strange expression conveyed by the central character in the altar.
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That is where the show's central character, Ben (Sean Teale), came from, although when we meet him he has insinuated himself into the Green Zone and is climbing the corporate ladder at one of the megacompanies, Spiga.
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Questions of guilt and retribution gnaw ceaselessly at the heart of Yankl (Shane Baker), the central character in Sholem Asch's "God of Vengeance," which is being given a timely revival by the New Yiddish Rep at LaMaMa.
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The scientists also enlisted a software package called eleanor — named after Eleanor Arroway, the central character in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" — to confirm the transits were real and not a result of instrumental artifacts, the statement said.
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For every moment that works, there's one that really, really doesn't, and The Politician's idea of political commentary is probably best summed up by its opening credits, which suggest the central character is a literal empty suit.
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Okay, I really don't know that I've had a bigger laugh this year than in the moment when Forrest, the series' central character and "life reviewer," realizes what he's going to have to do for his final segment.
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Ostensibly, this is a movie about her learning how to be the kind of leader who can succeed her father proudly, but it keeps introducing new ideas that detract from that central character arc, often for no reason.
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Danny, a high schooler, is nominally the central character, and much of the plot is taken up with his efforts to free himself of his virginity, first with a neighborhood girl and then with a worldly photography teacher.
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But no matter how hard he tries to convince us of Thorpe's "magnetic personality," his central character comes off as selfish, arrogant and manipulative, expecting his close friend, Peter Bessell, another Liberal M.P., to clean up after him.
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As the group began to walk back inside the White House, Trump was asked if he still had confidence in his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who has become a central character in the House impeachment inquiry.
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The hard truth is that there have been 17 Marvel movies (including Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel's joint venture with Sony), and none of them have had a woman or person of color as the titular or central character.
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Joel Horwood's stage adaptation of Gaiman's novel, directed by Katy Rudd, ages up its unnamed central character, who is now 12 and played by the very good Samuel Blenkin (and by Justin Salinger as the man he becomes).
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The Dardennes usually focus on a central character and after Emilie Dequesne played Rosetta and Marion Cotillard played Sandra in "Two Days One Night", double Cesar winner Adele Haenel, 27, was an impressive Jenny in "The Unknown Girl".
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" And while Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, won't be a central character, Fuller said "it'd be great in some iteration to integrate her storyline in some way... She's not a central part of the show, but I love that character.
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It was such a powerful story and it allowed us to look at this issue of anti-semitism and the rise of the right in Hungary through a fascinating, troubling, complex central character with such amazing twists and turns.
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In ''The Black Hair,'' one of four ghost stories in the 1965 Japanese horror film ''Kwaidan,'' ghost hair is a central character: It is the hair that attacks an unfaithful husband after he returns to the wife he abandoned.
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In "The White Book," a new novel by the acclaimed South Korean novelist Han Kang, the central character wanders Warsaw, haunted by the death of her sister as an infant, and by Korea's inability to mourn its own losses.
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The waspish, wistful Georgie (nicely played by Philippa Quinn) is the central character of Cicely Hamilton's "Just to Get Married," first staged in 1911 and now at the Finborough Theater, in its first London production in nearly 100 years.
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The film's central character, Buck the dog — performed in motion-capture by Terry Notary and digitally rendered later — runs rampant through a small California town, causing all manner of ruckus at the expense of his wealthy owner (Bradley Whitford).
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In some respects, the change in venue offers the show's creative team a chance to virtually rebuild it around the central character, who -- in the throes of grief -- is even more taciturn and non-verbal than in the past.
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The streamlining starts with Hays, firmly established as the central character after a season that cast four big-name actors (Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn and Taylor Kitsch) as variations on the same hard-drinking, morally compromised antihero.
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He compares the approach to capturing Shapiro to his experience playing "a thinly veiled interpretation of Bill Clinton" in the 1998 film Primary Colors for director Mike Nichols, who didn't want the cast to identify exactly who inspired the central character.
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"Transparent" creator, Jill Soloway, has confirmed the upcoming series finale will feature the death of the show's central character, played by actor Jeffrey Tambor, who was dismissed from the show last year over accusations of harassment toward others on set.
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"Bullies" is a punchy piece of reporting with a wicked hook: The author and the book's central character, Trevor Latham, attend the same Long Island elementary school, beat each other up regularly and savagely, then disappear from each other's lives.
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The twists that tangle the life of the central character in "An American Daughter," a woman of accomplishment nominated for high government office (ring any bells?), unfortunately feel more predictable, although this is partly because the play draws on familiar history.
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This epic poem was found on a series of ancient tablets from Mesopotamia written down over 4,000 years ago, and involves the central character Gilgamesh, an excessive and oppressive leader, and his arduous journey in pursuit of the secrets of immortality.
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TILLET What I like about "The Breaks" is that its central character, Nikki, is a woman who is not a rapper or a D.J., but is the real genius behind the vision, hustle, sound and style of early '90s hip-hop .
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This is a show that solves the "default white guy protagonist from this thing we're adapting" problem in a similar fashion to Syfy's terrific The Magicians, surrounding the central character with others who represent many, many different strains of humanity.
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I watched the market reports on the evening news and modeled myself after Alex P. Keaton, the central character in the sitcom "Family Ties" who, unlike his liberal-minded parents, loved nothing more than money, sweater vests and Ronald Reagan.
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The play's central character, an African-American named Brutus Jones, is the ruler of a Caribbean island, where he boasts of having fooled the population with empty talk, of being above the law, of planning to milk power for riches.
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Soon this second feature from the director and writer Tom Ford cuts to the story in the book, a violent one whose central character (Jake Gyllenhaal) resembles Susan's ex — and whose wife and daughter remind her of herself and her child.
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In both shows, the city of Albuquerque becomes as much of a central character as chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cook Walter White (Bryan Cranston) or smarmy attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), with most scenes shot on location throughout the region.
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Its central character is a 92-year-old widow who puts me in mind of the 100-year-old protagonist of Sebastian Barry's "The Secret Scripture," a Protestant inmate of a mental asylum recounting her perilous life in Catholic Sligo, Ireland.
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The central character of the TV series, the prominent astronomer J. Allen Hynek, played by Aidan Gillen, was recruited as Blue Book's scientific consultant and was indeed initially committed to explaining away flying saucers as natural phenomena or mistaken identifications.
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Charm is, in fact, the count's central character trait, one that infuriates the tribunal we see him face, via court transcript, at the beginning of the book: Vyshinsky: Count Rostov, you do not seem to appreciate the gravity of your position.
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The central character in The Hate U Give is Starr, a 16-year-old black girl who has become a master of code-switching as she travels back and forth between her white private school and her black home neighborhood.
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The movie admittedly doesn't share a whole lot with the show, except a central character whose general antipathy toward the world belies moments of vulnerability, and a keen sense of the kind of inner conflict that teenagers feel and express in contradictory ways.
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Along the same vein, even though Angelica bashes the show's reliance on Josh by calling out Daybreak's usage of a traditional, cisgender, white, male protagonist, that doesn't make up for Daybreak's neglect to use Wesley — or even Angelica — as the central character instead.
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Despite that, she was swept up in a maelstrom of assumption, innuendo and speculation, fueled largely by prosecutors and the British and Italian press, who cast her as the central character of "Foxy Knoxy" in a tale of a sex game gone wrong.
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If you do attend any or all of the above productions — and each seems worth gambling the price of a ticket on — you may require a palate cleanser of some sort, with a show whose central character is untroubled by moral doubts.
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The book – In Congo's Shadow, which was co-written by Wendy Holden – categorized the six months Linton spent in Zambia when she was 18 as a "living nightmare," and painted her as a "central character" in the Congolese war, the Post said.
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A few months ago, Riverdale fans panicked when they found out the beloved, but sadly underused, Ross Butler would be leaving the role of Reggie Mantle to film season 2 of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, where he's a much more central character.
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Her claim that she is 'genuinely happy' to have Depp star as the central character, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, in her big-budget film sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald provides him total rehabilitation in the eyes of the movie industry.
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The indie horror flick technically opened in 2014 but only received a wider release in 2015, and that's when many audience members learned about Monroe, who plays the film's central character with more depth than you'd expect from your typical scream queen.
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Three sponsors of a New York production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" have pulled their support for a free production of the play, because of the portrayal of the central character as a Donald Trump-like personality, who gets knifed to death on stage.
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It will be simulcast on the History, Lifetime and A&E channels, with a sprawling cast that includes Laurence Fishburne; Forest Whitaker; Anika Noni Rose; Anna Paquin; the rapper T.I.; and the English newcomer Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte, the central character.
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The central character of this vivid, unrelentingly funny memoir is the author's father—a Catholic priest whose first stirrings of faith came, after he was already married, by way of repeated viewings of "The Exorcist" while he was serving in the Navy.
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Ms. Gilbert, speaking directly to her readers in a Facebook post, said that after 12 years she was separating from José Nunes, the Brazilian importer whom she met during her travels and later married, and who was a central character in the book.
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The event, part of the World Science Festival, which Dr. Sacks had participated in over the years, included remarks by Temple Grandin, the central character in Dr. Sacks's book "An Anthropologist on Mars;" the physicist Brian Greene; and the composer Tobias Picker.
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It is here that viewers are introduced to its central character, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a cross-dressing pansexual alien scientist who, one rainy evening, brings to life an artificial creature designed for carnal pleasures and seduces a newly engaged boyfriend and girlfriend.
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Even worse, the show can't figure out what to do with Michael, ostensibly its central character, who is reduced to a bunch of stories about whether he'll leave the family that neither the show nor the other characters believe for a second.
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AMC has been steadily expanding the "Walking Dead" universe, first with the spinoff "Fear the Walking Dead" and then by announcing a series of movies starring Andrew Lincoln, who played the central character of Rick Grimes but opted to leave the show.
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A big problem is the central character: Anirudh never seems like more than a standard-issue stiff who bobs along looking worried as the script injects yet another scene of the doctor delivering the same bad news: Raghav's condition is not improving.
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Ms. Parker has an expansive and thrillingly original imagination, and her riposte to "The Scarlet Letter" required two plays, both featuring a central character named for Hawthorne's ill-used Hester: "In the Blood" and "A," whose full title includes an unprintable epithet.
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For some, like the thirteen-year-old central character of the chapter titled "September," it's merely a remote catastrophe visited on strangers, until the fear it inspires gives her best friend's mother an excuse to forbid the two girls to see each other.
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Most of his movies can be seen as dramas of faith and bids for redemption — both on the part of the filmmaker and the central character, who in "Au Hasard Balthazar," the 1970 movie widely considered his masterpiece, happens to be a donkey.
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I simply wrote a central character that was like me at the time: Optimistic, obsessed with 19th century literature, horny, rocking a size 16 bum and a size 20 mouth, without once thinking, Hang on — what young actress could actually play this?
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In Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, a book that somewhat mirrors my own childhood, the mother of the central character, John (who is a version of Baldwin himself), recalls a romantic partner she had before she met her child's father.
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The Marvel character may be the namesake and central character of the new FX show launching tonight, but it took nearly three decades for the world to finally be ready for the most powerful—and most interesting—member of the extended X-Men family.
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"Starring Kyle MacLachlan" are the first words to appear at the end of every episode of Twin Peaks, including its Showtime revival, and for good reason: the show's central character since it first aired in 1990 has always been FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper.
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On top of this, any temptation to provide the central character with interior monologues to reveal his anguished thoughts and feelings has been resisted; for most of the running time, he is limited to expressing himself via painful grunts and cries and very heavy breathing.
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Its moral conclusions are basically pablum — "you should be nice to women, who are also people, like you and your buddies" — but the central character goes through a believable transformation because, once he's forced to listen to women, he learns to listen to women.
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The evening concludes on a vastly different and rather tamer note, with Ms. Huppert appearing as Elizabeth Costello, the central character in Mr. Coetzee's cryptic novel of that name, which consists primarily of a series of lectures given by Elizabeth, a noted Australian novelist.
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One featured the charmingly innocent, logorrheic space alien Mork, from Ork, played by Robin Williams, who appeared in a "Happy Days" episode in early 1978 and became the central character in "Mork & Mindy," a show created by Mr. Marshall with Joe Glauberg and Dale McRaven.
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Hauled in front of various courts, the central character in not one but two crack videos, rehab — none of it seemed to shake his bullish resolve or the Ford Nation brand that grew around it, until his health faltered and forced him to the sidelines.
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In brisk, almost breakneck strokes, Roy depicts the violence of a war that suddenly engulfs the citrus-scented birthplace of its central character, Nomi, brutally claiming her father, then her brother and mother, and leaving Nomi to be consigned by boat to an unknown future.
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"The Hello Girls" is history fictionalized, but its central character, Grace Banker (Ellie Fishman) — the chief operator of this Ladies Switchboard Unit — is largely faithful to the record, and her band of subordinates is a bit less random than the usual Army-story odd lot.
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" IN "THE ICE WAGON Going Down the Street," Gallant's central character, Peter, is a man of pedigree from Ontario, whose surname has the chime of money and whose faith in his capacity for victory rests on his father's conviction that "nothing can touch us.
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"First Match" is the first feature film from the writer-director Olivia Newman, and it's noteworthy in several respects — the first being that it does not do much from the outset to make its central character, played with vivid ferocity by Elvire Emanuelle, conventionally likable.
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Written and directed by James Hadley, and performed on a sparkly set (by Genevieve Lizotte) that's lushly curtained with garlands, "'Twas" contains a faint "Nutcracker" echo in its ostensibly central character, Isabella (Michele Clark), a girl whisked off to a dreamscape where fantastical events unfold.
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Another central character, a former refugee now returned home, is so dispirited by the state of his life, his city and his country after the war that he is already nostalgic for life under ISIS, when everyone was "too afraid" to commit theft or corruption.
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I thought I'd struck gold with my original clue for 11-Down ("'Family Matters' central character"), but the whole "character" bit of wordplay for capitalized entries is basically old-hat at this point, so the revised clue referencing the Gmail logo is a nice alternate.
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Another recent example of how this shows up in marketing, also cited by Shanghaiist, is the promotion for Star Wars: In China, posters for The Force Awakens were altered to minimize John Boyega, a black actor who plays Finn, a central character in the movie.
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Yanagihara's central character, Jude, emerges from a brutal childhood and builds an ostensibly successful life — he graduates with a law degree from Harvard, finds meaningful work as a litigator and is the heart of a close-knit group of friends — yet struggles to reconcile his past traumas.
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The book's central character, Emma York, is a former WASP who served during World War II and finds herself — and her fellow female pilots — shut out of the selection process to become an astronaut, and fights to ensure that they'll be part of the space program.
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There is a scene in Louder Than Bombs, the third feature film from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, where the central character, a war photographer named Isabelle Reed, describes what it's like to return home to the New York suburbs after yet another tour in a conflict zone.
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Roland is the central character of the eight-book Stephen King series on which The Dark Tower is based, a sprawling Western-fantasy-science-fiction-horror mashup that various bigwigs (including J.J. Abrams and Ron Howard) have been trying to adapt for the screen for a decade.
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Kevin O'Rourke gives a powerful and nuanced performance as the central character, Tommy, who has mundanely gone out for a bag of chips when he encounters the bloodied Aimee, nicely played by a waifish Molly Carden (though she is a bit too fresh-faced for the role).
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COLLINS-HUGHES Martyna Majok's "Ironbound" is another one — although she told me that when she was developing it, before she was sure whether the central character, Darja, would have a child, audiences found Darja unlikable when she was aggressively trying to survive just for her own benefit.
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Comic book fans may remember Clark Kent living in apartment 5H at the Standish Arms Hotel in Metropolis, while those of Arthur Miller might recognize it as the name of the hotel where Willy Loman, the central character in "Death of a Salesman," has an affair.
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We can't outright ignore him, because there are important post-mortems to be written, because he's a central character in the drama of where the G.O.P. goes from here, and because he has captured the imaginations and vented the frustrations of tens of millions of Americans.
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Because this history of S.A.S. (Special Air Service) during World War II — based on documents compiled as the "SAS War Diary" and made public in 2011 — is episodic, it lacks the coherence of Mr. Macintyre's earlier books, which focused on a particular mission or central character.
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The central character in "The First Deer Dance" finds himself suddenly able to understand animal language, while in "March by Moonlight," electric poles spring to life, walking along the railroad tracks, as almost any child who's ever gazed at their anthropomorphic forms has suspected they might.
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Mr. Giuliani has emerged as the central character in the monthslong effort by Mr. Trump and officials in his government to get Ukraine's president to begin an investigation into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a leading Democratic candidate for president, and his son Hunter Biden.
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A male quartet singing silken four-part harmonies is woven into several scenes, including the first, when me meet the central character, who is also the tale's narrator, Calogero, played by Bobby Conte Thornton as a teenager and by Hudson Loverro as a 9-year-old.
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On Saturday night, Mr. Trump did not attack former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., who is a central character in the House impeachment inquiry, which is investigating Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine's president to come up with damaging information about the former vice president.
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The novel's central character — an urbane, Kolkata-born, now Brooklyn-based, rare-book dealer named Dinanath (Deen) Datta — becomes obsessed with the mysterious symbols decorating a remote shrine in the Sundarbans, a wild region of mangrove islands on the Bay of Bengal, stretching between India and Bangladesh.
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The question raised by every new iteration of the Doctor — the central character of the 55-year-old British sci-fi franchise Doctor Who — seems simple, but it offers endless variations on a single theme: Will the latest version of the show focus on the alien Doctor?
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The building where much of the action takes place is a hotel in Alexandria, Va., that has been commandeered by the Union Army as a hospital, and the central character is Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an abolitionist (and widow of a baron) who volunteers as a nurse.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A scandal that could complicate the South Korean political ambitions of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon features an unlikely central character: a New York fashion designer whose wedding was broadcast on reality TV and who authorities said falsely touted ties to Middle Eastern royalty.
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A focus on highway driving If the name Anthony Levandowski sounds familiar, there's a good reason: his work on autonomous driving pre-dates Google's, and he served as the central character in a sprawling profile of the self-driving car project in The New Yorker several years ago.
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But Mr. Ferguson also has a few legato passages to define the central character with sympathetic grace notes, as in a deflating conversation with a fellow actor boasting about an audition, or, more happily, when Sam learns that he himself has scored a callback from Lincoln Center Theater.
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Adlon initially considered tweaking the central character to distinguish between Sam's life and her own—"to make her a manicurist, or have a gay brother living in the back yard, or something," she said—but eventually she decided that the details of her own life felt the most resonant.
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One number for three women (one of whom is in fact a man) directly recalls the trio of strippers who bring the house down late into "Gypsy," while the central character of the farm girl Candy Johnson (the sterling-voiced Florence Andrews) suggests an equivalent Annie Oakley in embryo.
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A side-scrolling platformer where a color wheel is used to make foreground objects disappear and reappear against the background, and the central character—the titular Hue—can move some of them around the environment to reach new points or avoid one-hit-kill obstacles, it sounds very simple.
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Like so many CBS shows, "Tommy" spoons out personal details about its central character -- and the team surrounding her -- while going about the business of dealing with particular cases, in a manner that puts the new chief out in the field investigating cases more often than is remotely plausible.
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This is not quite a spoiler — because believe me, the scene in question is not one that you are going to see coming, even with this reveal — but the movie ends with the central character subjected to a mini-apocalypse: The world she knows ends before her eyes.
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But when your central character is a guy like Will — a family man, a caring husband and devoted father, and a man who is so rattled by an act of violence he saw earlier in his career that he's still haunted by it — you'd think he'd feel something.
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Kerry James Marshall's central character in "Untitled (policeman)" (2015), wearing his standard issue, navy blue Chicago Police Department uniform, hand on his hip, looks out in a moment of reflection, at the boy on the other wall in Carrie Mae Weems' "Blue Black Boy" (20153), whose eyes gape.
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McChrystal's assumption that he would be the central character in his memoir (published in 2013) shifted, despite his 34 years of Army service, including nearly five years as the head of the Joint Special Operations Command and a year as commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Afghanistan.
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The story is told in three distinct chapters with three different actors as the central character: We begin with little Chiron (Alex Hibbert), bullied at school but given unexpected fatherly shelter by a drug dealer (Mahershala Ali, whose gravely gentle performance is in many ways the heart of the film).
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For his second novel, "L'Emploi du Temps" (1956), published in English as "Passing Time," he drew on his time experience teaching in Manchester to evoke a fictional city in the north of England where his central character, a Frenchman, works as a clerk for a year, keeping a bizarre diary.
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If there's anyone you definitely do not want at a party celebrating your coming wedding, it's the mean-girl central character in "Engagements," a bitingly funny but overly sour comedy by Lucy Teitler that opened on Thursday at the McGinn/Cazale Theater as part of Second Stage Theater's Uptown summer series.
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A prequel of sorts to "Antony and Cleopatra," with which it shares the central character of Antony, "Julius Caesar" offers a mostly male study in realpolitik that, in Angus Jackson's becalmed production, leaves us wondering where the star equivalents to Ms. Simon and Mr. Troughton have got to this time.
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Mark Medoff, whose acclaimed play "Children of a Lesser God," featuring a deaf central character, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into a 22016 movie that won an Oscar for its female lead, Marlee Matlin, died on Tuesday in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 22004.
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"Dallas" was more "Peyton Place" than "Holiday," and the clothes weren't as fine, but it did have an ingeniously original, amoral central character in J. R. Ewing (a shrewd performance by Larry Hagman) and a delicious mix of earnestness (Bobby and Pam Ewing) and bitchiness (Sue Ellen Ewing and Lucy Ewing).
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As his title suggests, the playwright Adam Bock said he decided to set his recovery play, "Before the Meeting," outside the actual 12-step process, though the central character — an older woman working hard to keep sober — delivers a 25-minute monologue to what seems like a group of fellow drinkers.
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In their new show, "Vanity Fair" — written by Ms. Hamill, directed by Mr. Tucker and beginning previews Friday, March 24, at the Pearl Theater Company — she plays an anti-ingenue, the calculating orphan Becky Sharp, the central character of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 19th-century satire of social climbing and clawing.
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Twentieth Century Fox will unveil "The Martian VR Experience" at the annual CES tech expo in Las Vegas this Thursday, taking invited journalists on a 20-minute interactive journey to the Red Planet to confront challenges similar to those faced by the film's central character, Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon.
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In the episodes since Zoe's season 2 finale introduction, This Is Us has continued to remind us just how "difficult" Zoe's backstory is, often to the point where the mystery of her past was treated like more of a central character trait than her love of documentary filmmaking and a no B.S. attitude.
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As genuinely shocking a play as I've come across in many a year, "Cyprus Avenue" takes its title from a middle-class Belfast street that finds room for the fearsome bigotry of the central character of Eric (Stephen Rea), an ordinary-seeming man whose actions by play's end are extraordinarily gasp-inducing.
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Like her critically acclaimed debut, "Vida," an episodic collection of vignettes in the life of its central character, and the novel that followed, "It's Not Love, It's Just Paris," this is the coming-of-age story of a young Colombian-American woman negotiating independence, romance and the ties of kith and kin.
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When the alien does arrive, it's not one of the dazed martians in Close Encounters or the cuddly weirdos in Star Wars: It's a blood-soaked penis, fanged and erect, which erupts from the chest of a central character before scuttling off to grow at a frightening rate into a clanking monster.
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To be fair, all this changed when Mr. Stone made his next Vietnam movie, "Heaven and Earth," which broke new ground because the central character was a Vietnamese woman and because the movie paid attention to the details of Vietnam village custom — from lacquering teeth as protection against cavities to chewing betel nut.
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Clearly no one involved in making this show was interested enough in him to give him a personality or even so much as a meet-cute with Sabrina — but for some reason they still decided to make him a central character who will motivate Sabrina to make some of her most important choices.
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Now the creators and writers of "Transparent" find themselves trying to construct a fifth season that may or may not include their central character, Mr. Tambor's Maura Pfefferman, while struggling to navigate the sudden upheaval of a show they believed was advancing an important cause both in front of and behind the camera.
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I don't want to say too much more in terms of plot, because I don't want to give anything away — but it's safe to say that there isn't any one central character (pretty much the whole town is woven into the story), and many of the same people crop up again and again.
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It had plenty to recommend it to audiences — an iconic central character, great action sequences, a bevy of stars — but what people talked about most may have been the movie's director, Patty Jenkins, who became the first woman to direct a big-budget superhero film (and then signed on to direct a sequel).
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This test involved reading five scenarios in which they were the central character, all of which concluded with an act of revenge porn; each participant was then asked how likely they'd be to do the same, on a scale of one (definitely would not do the same) to five (definitely would do the same).
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Part of the goal here would naturally be to steer clear of the issues Marvel has already experienced with its Netflix show Iron Fist, which dipped heavily into Orientalist stereotypes and featured a white protagonist who became the world's greatest martial artist, or with Doctor Strange, which was accused of whitewashing a central character.
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DeWitt's novel, set in the summer of 1990, opens with a checklist of that year's milestones — the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, Nelson Mandela's release from prison — which is odd, considering that its central character, a rural farm girl named Jean, still experiences the outside world almost exclusively through television and adult whispers.
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I'm not the first to compare Tessa Hadley to Virginia Woolf, not even in these pages, and "Late in the Day" calls to mind, in particular, Woolf's "The Waves" in its circling around a magnetic central character (for Woolf, it's Percival, beloved childhood friend of six overlapping narrators) whose absence becomes the book's main character.
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The gender flip involves more than simply putting the central character in a red dress, however much Bobbie's sartorial choice contrasts with the many impersonal interiors of Bunny Christie's agile set, which uses doors as the central visual metaphor: Bobbie, it's clear, needs to unlock something in herself to move forward in love and life.
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A 44-year-old Yale Law School graduate who has mixed a municipal career in Atlanta and statehouse politics with running a small business and writing a series of romance novels under a nom de plume, she is now a central character in the midterm elections and the Democratic Party's quest to define itself.
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After Arkansas's announcement of an execution schedule that death penalty researchers said was without equal in the modern history of capital punishment in the United States, a brainstorming session among reporters who cover the South for The Times led to an idea for an article that would focus on the drug as a central character.
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Not just because the Saoirse Ronan-starring film is a movie made by a woman filmmaker, or because its central character is a 17-year-old girl: Lady Bird's success is crucial to toppling the notion that women-led movies have to be Massive Hollywood Blockbusters in order to receive the same acclaim as their male-starring counterparts.
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This zine sits adjacent to a large-scale painting by Woods, who parlays the theme of Westward Expansion into a set of colorful and quasi-traditional cowboy images — the largest of which features a black-hatted central character wielding two six-shooters amid a halo of gun smoke — based off a visual amalgam of Gary Cooper and John Wayne.
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But when Half-Life's central character never says a word—when I spend the whole of Episode One being talked to, right in the eye, by Alyx and all I can do is stare mutely back, never uttering as much as syllable—I find it hard to agree that Half-Life is that interested in story.
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As president of MTM Enterprises, a company he founded with his second wife, Mary Tyler Moore, in 21981, Mr. Tinker produced the show named for her, one of the first series to feature an independent career woman as the central character, as well as spinoffs like "Rhoda" and the one-hour newsroom drama "Lou Grant," which examined societal issues.
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Revised since then, it retains both its primary strengths — Ms. Hood's music and Mr. Russell's lyrics, though their title song is still underwhelming — and its fatal weaknesses: Mr. Russell's strained plot and sitcom-shallow dialogue, and a central character so self-absorbed that you have to wonder what Lou, who is a catch, sees in her.
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Coventry's brooding narrative, in varying parts philosophical action-adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character, who, for reasons that don't cohere till the book's final chapters, appropriates his older brother's experiences as a pilot spared by injury and illness from the massacre at Gallipoli.
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COMPANY The Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott ("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") swapped the central character of Bobby, the bachelor with commitment issues in this Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical, for a female Bobbie, giving the 1970 musical a jolt that excited critics in London where it opened — and quickly extended — last fall.
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She believes that the play captures much about the Jewish culture of the times that needs to be brought into the light: "The roots of all evil: the money, the subjugation of women, the false piety … the terrifying violence of that father," she says, referring to the central character, a Jewish patriarch, Yekel, who runs a brothel from his basement.
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A revival of "The Color Purple," a musical adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel by Alice Walker, had a good night, winning awards for best musical revival, and for best leading actress for its 29-year-old star, Cynthia Erivo, who is the second actress in 10 years to win a Tony Award for playing the book's central character, Celie.
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Like the departure of a popular actor from a sitcom, Sean Spicer's resignation on Friday deprives the briefing of its central character (its hero or its villain, depending on the viewer) and spells the end of an unlikely cottage industry that sprung up around the man who might already be the most famous White House press secretary of modern times.
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At some time during the writing, the novel's name changed to "The Handmaid's Tale," partly in honor of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," but partly also in reference to fairy tales and folk tales: The story told by the central character partakes — for later or remote listeners — of the unbelievable, the fantastic, as do the stories told by those who have survived earth-shattering events.
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The film interweaves perspectives from people on land, in air and at sea, through the eyes of, among others, a naval officer (Kenneth Branagh), a civilian boat captain (Mark Rylance), a shellshocked officer (Cillian Murphy), Royal Air Force pilots (Tom Hardy and Jack Lowden), and the central character, a painfully young British soldier played by a relative newcomer, Fionn Whitehead.
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And this combination of interior life and social reality makes for what may be her greatest portrait in "Britannia Mews," her novel of life on a disreputable London street from 1875 through to the Blitz; the book is a love letter to London and Londoners, and the central character, Adelaide, is an extraordinarily distinct creation, determined and definite in her passions, her actions and her ambitions.
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I feel like I wouldn't be able to do such a project the proper justice, so I'm going to go ahead and quote from The Hollywood Reporter's synopsis of the upcoming NBC series CRISPR, which derives its dystopian plot points from the world-changing technology of the same name, The show's central character is a scientist with the CDC who is paired with an FBI agent.
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The series seems to prepare for tension between Nancy's boyfriend, Steve, and Will's brother, Jonathan, who is at her side while she stalks the Demogorgon — but ultimately establishes Nancy as a central character in her own right, deflating the love triangle through a flash forward in which we learn that she has chosen to stay with Steve but both continue to maintain strong friendships with Jonathan.
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