An English security consultant played by Eddie Izzard installs security cameras to spy on townspeople, prompting rebellion.
"I have a boyfriend," Mr. Verde announced during a mock interview with a campaign consultant playing the role of reporter.
Terry Bradway — the former general manager of the Jets and currently a senior personnel consultant — played with Coffey at Holy Spirit, a parochial power in Absecon, N.J.
But Mike Shatzkin, founder and chief executive of the Idea Logical Company, a publishing consultant, played down the role of a potential merger.
"Lie to Me" is about a police consultant, played by Tim Roth, who has developed scientific techniques to detect lies by reading people's facial expressions.
Jimmy Fallon, formerly of "Saturday Night Live," is Ben, a joke-happy Boston schoolteacher who successfully woos a high-flying corporate consultant played by Drew Barrymore.
In the movie the political consultant played by Robert De Niro concocts a war that exists only in the news media to deflect attention from a president's sexual groping of a girl scout (or firefly girl, as she is called).
But then I rented a movie he recommended, a Sidney Lumet film, "Power," about the high-flying, low-sinking life of one really smart political consultant, played by Richard Gere. "I thought of myself as the Richard Gere character," Rove had said wryly.
The CEO puts five hard-nosed telecoms execs – Nigerian, Kenyan, Moroccan, Ivorian and South African – together at a luxury beach resort to pitch for the top job in an Apprentice-style elimination narrative presided over by a steely consultant (played by Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo).
During a relatively tame pre-taped bit about the world's worst archery consultant (played by Joel McHale), Abrams was shown in an editing bay on the set of "Star Trek 2".
