From the sitcom to the drama, Italian-Americans still struggle to escape roles cast long ago for the olive-skinned, or to emerge as characters more fully drawn than the "nonethnic ethnic".
A large body of evidence has been accumulating for its immunosuppressive and tumoural escape roles and its applicability as a therapeutic target.
But he was unable to escape that role.
He told shareholders at the annual meeting: "We cannot escape the role of personal accountability we each have.
Sweig complains that "Americans think of themselves as kings and queens of the world's prom". But, actually, we can't escape that role, at least for now.
John talked about how manufactured many pilgrimage (and tourist) experiences are, and it makes sense that it would be difficult maybe impossible for a pilgrim to escape the role of spectator.
Though he still looms large in her life, she managed to escape the role that many people predicted for her: the perpetually grieving widow forever in her husband's shadow.
"Lawyers cannot escape their role in giving assistance to corporate wrongdoers," he said, "by hiding behind their ability to craft a clever phrase to circumvent what they know to be the right answer".
Le Bon, who shot five movies in the past year, is determined to escape the role of ingénue with performances as a love interest to Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale in the World War I drama "The Promise" and as an accomplice to an assassination opposite Jamie Dornan in the Nazi spy thriller "Anthropoid".
(I quickly located my cellphone in case I needed to call 911; even on weekend trips, apparently, I cannot escape my role as safety officer).
To start with, he needs to recognize that, fairly or not, he has been cast as a villain, and he can't escape that role by being argumentative.
