As interpreted and re-interpreted by the centered actors, the words seem nostalgic one minute and menacing the next.
Because when the cause is centered, each actor is judged only by their potential for service to the cause and their willingness to perform that service.
When Shaquille O'Neal, the 21-year-old, seven-foot center, actor, rapper and, now, movie star, takes the ball to the hole in William Friedkin's mostly joyless new basketball film, "Blue Chips," it seems that the sport has been transformed into a mythic battle of the titans.
It's centered on an actor, Oscar (Denis Lavant), who prepares in a stretch limousine for performances that he delivers on-location in Paris.
However, what most probably don't know is that although visually centered around the actor, these projects are ideological collaborations with artists Nastja Rönkkö and Luke Turner.
Mr. Bon Jovi noted that the Bravo show, which usually centers on actors, will cover the history of his band as performers and some of Mr. Bon Jovi's film work.
Mr. Kinnear is the self-centered actor who plays her heart's desire on television.
What more appropriate guise for his millennial incarnation than as a vain, self-centered actor who dreams of directing the show in which he's a star?
The story is centered on two actors.
For the most part, the vaunted Vienna locations may as well be rear-screen projections — sometimes because the actors aren't physically involved with them, sometimes because, when they are physically involved, the camera's position is centered on the actors, front and center, catching what they're throwing rather than seeing what they're doing.
