But, every now and again appears one who is also interesting, the unusual nature of their abilities engaging and thrilling in a different way.
Not living in New York is wonderful because no matter how often I visit, my friends are happy to see me, my agent takes me someplace very nice for lunch, and the whole place looks gorgeous and thrilling in a way I imagine it would not if I had to look at it every day".
After Raúl Castro's reforms allowed for an officially government-sanctioned race months after the initial one was planned and foiled due to the Pope, Perlmutt's film piles on the anticipation and thrills in a way Days of Thunder never did.
It's still early for Chance, but so far he's been consistent in blurring the space between joys and thrills, in partnering happy innocence with a wily irony and sense of mischief.
True, some things I ate erred on the side of subtlety: a few scant shavings of foie gras couldn't rouse a duck breast out of its slumber, and the biggest thrill in a braised pork shoulder was in counting the kinds of beans on the plate.
And thrills in thrillers are often less about overt action.
Mr. Khan, the leading man of "Lagaan," a colorful epic that opens in New York next week, has been called India's Tom Cruise, and he was dressed to thrill in a snug T-shirt and cargo pants.
The FARC banks on the fact that many children in the poor rural areas of Colombia dream of the security, adventure and thrill of being in a military force.
But for my father, who was more than 50 at the time, I imagine there was little fascination with the goings-on at a mental institution, no desire to conduct sing-alongs with the residents and no thrill in laying block, a job he had learned on the skyscrapers of Manhattan after returning from World War II and, surely, hoped he had outgrown.
The deceptively pedestrian-looking triple-launch coaster at the Valencia amusement park packs a fistful of powerful punches and delivers a heavy helping of thrills in a compact package.
