All these characters revolve around Trumbo, but where, exactly, does his story go?
It is at once a lament and a lampoon, its characters revolving around one another like planets in an alien galaxy.
Neither did he watch the Mariners play, he said, adding, "It's not about football, it's about people; a family of characters revolving around Pudgie".
Either Side of Winter is not a novel in the usual sense, but autonomous, audaciously linked stories of some thrilling, miserable moments in the lives of four characters revolving around a prep school in New York City.
A dramatic sequence following a cast of characters revolving around "Becky", and their various sketchy jobs and aspirations, the album is as ambitious as the individuals it profiles – but while they seem locked into a downward spiral, the record itself is pretty successful.
I don't think I praised enough the anchoring performance of Jacob Roa as Liam, the hero of the piece that all the other characters revolve around.
The show traces the disparate storylines of an ensemble of fictional characters revolving around two main characters: young Ben Hawkins working in a traveling carnival, and a California preacher named Brother Justin Crowe.
The other characters revolved around them, dealing with Larry's shifting moods, Hank's bombastic incompetence, the stresses of an ever-rotating cast of celebrities all playing themselves who appeared on the show-within-the-show and caused havoc.
This is a series that is ultimately about the 1960s, among other things, but it is a series with a particular set of prisms; namely the New York advertising business, and some very intriguing characters revolving around that most American of businesses.
Dan Bakkedahl plays his roommate, Steve, but the character everything revolves around, at least in the early going, is Billy, Steve's brother, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair.
