In the book, Boyd, the main character based on several of the fellows Mr. Westermann worked with in Freeport, battles alcoholism and a failing marriage.
(Has the script been revised since the original production?) The main character, based on Kramer himself, breaks with the organization based on Gay Men's Health Crisis, but the play ends before the founding of the more confrontational ACT UP, in which Kramer was also instrumental.
During the design process, Mr. Chomet also supervised creation of small clay maquettes of the main characters based on his drawings.
'Safe Conduct' Bertrand Tavernier's discursive, anecdotal account of life in the French film industry during the German occupation focuses on two main characters based on real people.
Anticipation for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" has been so high that fans began dressing up as its main character, Newt Scamander, based solely on the trailer.
Instead, a main character is based on his father, a staunch supporter of the imperial system who drowned in a flood during World War II.
The main character is based on Japan's Empress Michiko, who in 1959 was the first "commoner" to marry into the imperial family.
In "The Moon and Sixpence" (1919), among his best-known novels, the main character is based on Paul Gauguin, whose nature was as pitiless as Maugham's.
Which causes the angelic monk Alyosha to wonder, "How can there be a God if there are feet?" The main character is based not on any figure in Dostoyevsky but, rather, on his first and most enduring English-language translator, a woman of Victorian energies and Edwardian prose, Mrs. Constance Garnett.
Mr. Stern's other novels include "Stitch" (1965), drawn from his experience as a Fulbright scholar in Europe and his acquaintanceship with the poet Ezra Pound, on whom the main character was based; and "Natural Shocks" (1978), which concerns a worldly journalist who accepts an assignment to write about death and becomes attached to a young woman dying of cancer.
If you've read the book Bringing Down The House or seen the movie 21, the main character is based on Ma — yes, in the movie he's a white guy, but still, that's him.
