At New York Fashion Week this month, Mr. Boston found himself angling for choice morsels from designers among a flamboyant cast of camera-wielding correspondents, some with platinum hair and a fondness for animal prints, one in a rhinestone jacket, a couple of others who looked, off-camera, like, ah... tourists.
Begun as the diary of the self-described "least popular kid in the elementary school," the book portrays a flamboyant cast of residents from the perspective of a little girl (albeit one who believes her body to be the final resting place of the soul of Groucho Marx).
Last season did better, partly because the competition between the homespun Kris Allen and the flamboyant Adam Lambert was cast as a battle between small town values and big city glitter, sweetness vs. spice.
His screen breakthrough came courtesy of the flamboyant director Cecil B De Mille, who cast him as the circus manager in 1952's Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth.
Peter E. Fleming Jr., a prominent criminal-defense lawyer whose client list over more than three decades included high-ranking politicians, flamboyant celebrities and a cast of characters from outbreaks of corporate crime, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Emir Kusturica, the flamboyant Bosnian director, is perfectly cast in this real-life cold-war thriller, as a disillusioned Soviet colonel who funnelled KGB secrets to the west in early 1980s Moscow.
Kelly was a tall and flamboyant figure who was often cast as a comic, eccentric Irishman, notably as Albert Riddle, an incompetent, one-armed dish-washer in the late 1970s British sitcom Robin's Nest; he could always play up to stereotype, and beyond, in his extravagant facial and physical gestures.
He splits his time between Hong Kong and New Zealand and casts himself in flamboyant YouTube videos.
Also in the cast are Robert Orth as the flamboyant King Ouf I and Lauren Skuce as Laoula, all liquid silver and sly as a fox.
The flamboyant former chief executive of Vivendi Universal, cast out of the media giant in July, spent time soul-searching in isolation (albeit in splendid Mediterranean environs).
Alumni from the original Broadway cast, including Roger Bart's fiercely flamboyant Carmen Ghia and Gary Beach's spotlight-hogging director Roger De Bris, were on hand to keep the comic level high.
