Imperioli has had a good TV decade, first as the volatile yet somewhat pathetic Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos," and then as a nineteen-seventies New York City police detective on the short-lived "Life on Mars," in which a contemporary man suddenly finds himself transported to the Me decade.
Nonetheless, the boldest moment of "Daydream Believers" is the script's: an opening scene in which a contemporary man tries to sell a laptop-obsessed executive on the "cutting edge" idea of a show about a band, a scene that segues into the series' 1965 pitch.
A Guy's Guy is a contemporary Man's Man -- a nod to the return of the casual confidence and seductive integrity of the classic male -- updated to reflect a belief that everybody wins when men and women can be at their best.
But two long monologues from father and son, leavened only by an anti-semitic exchange with a moneylender and a patrician judgment from the local duke - a contemporary man-in-suit, for some reason, amid an all-male cast in shabby period dress - do not an opera make.
In Paul Mullin's incisive staging of "Rhinoceros" here, Paul Niebanck's Berenger is less a hero than an ambivalent contemporary man of Chaplinesque sadness, and in that double-edged performance, Ionesco's belief in the oneness of tragedy and comedy is hauntingly brought to life.
It was "a shame," Mr. Putin said, that the crisis had fallen to Mr. Medvedev, whom he described as "an intelligent, contemporary man of liberal views".
Here's Kauffmann on Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena," a play he later described as "one of the best new pays I have seen in my life": "[Fugard] has embraced these people so fiercely and lovingly that in their rags and drunkenness and cunning and persistence they move through a small epic of contemporary man.
Jacket Required, a new contemporary men's-wear trade show in London, felt much like a bunch of well-dressed friends finally getting the chance to hang out together.
If Jeff, with his boyish, wide-eyed stare and blank expression, personifies a spoiled contemporary man-child, Mr. Maguire makes this essentially disagreeable character almost sympathetic.
And yet, with Helmut Lang and Raf Simons having done turns teaching at the city's fashion school, a nascent contemporary men's-wear scene has emerged, making no Viennese shopping expedition complete without experiencing old and new.
However, "Love & Monsters" follows a contemporary ordinary man named Elton Pope (Marc Warren) who becomes obsessed with a man called the Doctor and his strange blue box, and joins a group of like-minded people in hopes of finding him.
