Dr. Simpson, who had investigated 40,000 cases, was a colorful role model for Dr. Mant.
So it made a kind of defiant sense that I resolved, in Santa Fe, to operate on the bold, sinus-clearing principle that no meal should be eaten in which chili peppers didn't play a major and colorful role.
THERE is no argument that the building overlooking Long Beach has had a colorful role in local history, but how significant that is to a plan to convert the well-known restaurant site into condominiums is part of a debate in Noyac, a hamlet just west of Sag Harbor.
Ms. Gay allows her actors free rein to juice up their colorful roles.
Heather Berest and Annmaria Mazzini did as much as possible with the less colorful roles of the mother and daughter.
Grimes also provides colorful roles for several of Jury's longstanding intimates and enemies, including Harry Johnson, a charming psychopath who lives with an intelligent mutt named Mungo.
He gained early popularity as the stoner Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and had a host of colorful roles in the 1980s, but was better known back then for his tabloid escapades (punching a photographer, marrying Madonna).
"You hear all the time that actors who become directors know what their actors are going through, and that's true to a large extent," said Fletcher, who after a career of colorful roles in movies like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" began directing features a few years ago.
The actress, whose many film credits included "Islands in the Stream" (1977), "Angel" (1984) and "Cry-Baby" (1990), already had played a number of colorful character roles on stage in New York before being cast in "Fat City," a boxing drama starring Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges.
(His father is Michael Ritchie, former producer of the Williamstown festival, now heading the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles.) In addition, the married actors Dylan Baker and Becky Ann Baker play a pair of colorful supporting roles.
The director also had an on-screen presence, using his New York accent and gruff delivery in colorful supporting roles that included a practical-minded casino boss unswayed by Albert Brooks' disastrous luck in "Lost in America" and a crass network executive in "Soapdish". .
