• The title character, played by Mia Farrow, is a pampered Upper East Side lady-who-lunches.

    NEWYORKER: Alice

  • The title character is an underground movie director (Stephen Dorff) dedicated to the demolition of standard studio pap.

    NEWYORKER: Cecil B. Demented

  • In it, the affable title character, Kabuliwallah "the man from Kabul" leaves home to earn his livelihood in Calcutta.

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  • As the title character, Danny Rutigliano has the requisite height or lack thereof (LaGuardia was 5-foot tall) and pugnacious demeanor.

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  • The dance's overwrought action presents the title character, originally danced by Graham, at the center of a tangle among goddesses and related characters.

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  • The movie belongs to the teenage buddies as much as to the title character, and echoes of Mark Twain are neither accidental nor incidental.

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  • The title character, bored and frustrated with his work, toys with the facts of his charges' lives before learning that he may be next.

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  • The engrossing half concerns the title character (Tamblyn), a sixteen-year-old girl in a Hudson Valley town who gives birth while on a ski trip.

    NEWYORKER: Stephanie Daley

  • The title character (Michael Caine), an elderly pensioner and former soldier, lives in a filthy South London council estate controlled by a snarly-faced youth gang.

    NEWYORKER: Harry Brown

  • And John Carter, the title character, is nowhere to be seen.

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  • In just one audition, she won a career-making role: the title character of David Ives's provocative play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company, off-Broadway.

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  • The title character, a middle-aged former nurse, met her husband, Vladimir, a retired plutocrat, a decade ago, and both have problems with their children from previous marriages.

    NEWYORKER: Elena

  • In lieu of McQueen, Kevin Costner plays the title character, a retired Secret Service man who is hired to protect a famous singer (played by Whitney Houston).

    NEWYORKER: The Bodyguard

  • Multihyphenate artist James Franco, who stars as the title character, whooshed into the party with his highbrow pal Klaus Biesenbach, the director of the Museum of Modern Art.

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  • In his obsessive pursuit, Cyril bears striking similarities to Rosetta, the title character of the Dardennes' earlier film, who fights, often literally, to get and keep a job.

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  • Star Ellen Page received plaudits for her performance as the title character, and screenwriter Diablo Cody -- famously a former stripper -- has become one of Hollywood's "it" scribes.

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  • The designers have given Garrett a focus ability, as well as implemented fighting gameplay inspired by Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" film, which featured the title character pinpointing a foe's weak spots.

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  • After "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he played the egg-eating malcontented title character, he turned to directing, earning raves for his behind-the-camera work on "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), starring his wife.

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  • That week, Mr. Morse was in rehearsals exploring key moments in "Tom Durnin, " in which he plays the title character, a white-collar criminal returning to his family after time in the clink.

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  • He clearly cares deeply about the title character (Vincent Gallo), a writer living in Buenos Aires, who had been the darling, and is now the whipping boy, of a dominant local critic.

    NEWYORKER: Tetro

  • The drama's title character is a notorious figure from Greek mythology, a sorceress whose main claim to fame is the event that brings down the curtain on Cherubini's opera: She murders her own children.

    NPR: Motherhood and Murder: Cherubini's 'Medea'

  • Edie Falco plays the title character, whose sincere, uncluttered wish to leave town and become an actress in Los Angeles mesmerizes David Gold, who is stagnating at home after a failed attempt at filmmaking.

    NEWYORKER: Judy Berlin

  • As almost always, Mr. Washington brings extraordinary depth and intelligence to his role, even though the title character, who learned his killing skills in counter-insurgency work, has become a rusty staple of the action genre.

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  • It opens with its title character (Nina Pens Rode), an opera singer of a certain age, telling her husband (Bendt Rothe), a renowned lawyer about to be named a cabinet minister, that she will leave him for a poor young composer.

    NEWYORKER: Gertrud

  • Joey Evans (Adrian Aguilar), the title character, is a cheap-souled Chicago hoofer who catches the eye of Vera Simpson (Susie McGonagle), a man-hungry socialite of a certain age who buys him a nightclub in return for his services in the sack.

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  • Written by award-winning author Chris Cleave, Little Bee tells the story of an illegal Nigerian refugee (the title character) who is set free from a British detention center and ends up at the doorstep of Sarah, a recent widow from suburban London.

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  • The title character, Sam (Andrew Dickler), a bushy-bearded horticulturist, quietly overbearing cynic, and multitalented funster, is about to marry the perky, more conventional Steph (Marguerite Moreau), who gets curious about his estranged younger brother, Tom (Ben York Jones), whom she coaxes to their house for the wedding weekend.

    NEWYORKER: Douchebag

  • In previews for the 1997 TV movie, Houston's Fairy Godmother and pop singer Brandy's title character were much hyped, but the Rob Marshall-directed production itself was stolen by old pros Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopee Goldberg as the King and Queen, and Jason Alexander as a kind of singing, dancing, pratfalling George Costanza.

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  • Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.

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  • Mr Broadhurst, who made the recording of the work, said he chose Cavatina, because text on its title page gave "an illuminating insight into the character of Mr Driffield, his music and the likely culture of Christ Church when Wilfred Owen attended".

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