If the transporting of royalty runs counter to most expectations of Ryanair, recent comments (not for the faint-hearted) by Michael O'Leary, the chief executive, play to type.
Yet the band members (who hold varied day jobs like doctor, courtroom reporter, music teacher, IT specialist and, in the case of Mr. Shaiman, classical-music executive) play as "a dynamic, single unit," Ms. Tuttle said.
But the Shareholder Executive played hardball.
A Toyota executive played down the importance of global rankings.
For example, last fall, ABC introduced a sitcom, "Hank," about an unemployed executive, played by Kelsey Grammer.
Its chief executive, played by Lance Reddick, is described as "a gun with an Ivy League education".
Rhonda insists that she, however, is utterly unlike Wanda, the AT&T executive played by Kellita Smith.
Christine, a rising executive played by Rachel McAdams, alternately nurtures, betrays, humiliates and makes passes at Isabelle (Noomi Rapace), her spooked, passive (or perhaps passive-aggressive) underling.
Despite evidence that the aliens are from an advanced civilization, they are treated with contempt and subjected to corporate abuse overseen by an executive played by Sharlto Copley.
(Joanna Hoffman, the marketing executive played by Kate Winslet, unfailingly and insistently brings her work with Jobs back to personal terms, as does the programmer Andy Hertzfeld, played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
ROGER DODGER -- A womanizing Manhattan advertising executive, played by Campbell Scott, takes his naïve Midwestern nephew (Jesse Eisenberg) under his wing, intending to teach him a few things about life.
