Like Leonard, he writes juicy capers featuring messy characters, flowery dialogue and endless double crossing.
Because messy characters, as Anthony "I Am Norman Bates Perkinss can attest, have a tendency to stick.
Narrow definitions are also being challenged by the wonderfully flawed and messy characters in critically acclaimed series such as HBO's recently canceled "Getting On" and Netflix comedy "Orange Is the New Black".
And yet its messy, unpredictable character is what makes São Paulo so intoxicating: this is a city where spaces fold into one another and lives collide.
It would no doubt be clean, polite and well-tailored, but might it all feel a bit insipid and at odds with the messy, earthy character of the place?
The messy complexity of character and of the world at large, the expression of realms of experience that most prudent spectators or readers would rather avoid, is precisely what the best art embodies.
Is the character messy or neat?
As messy as the characters' lives become, the midcentury color scheme — based on puce, plum, pistachio and pumpkin — remains reassuringly tidy.
Based on Neil Simon's original rendition of "The Odd Couple," the new show will focus on the same characters, messy Oscar -- played by Perry -- and his neat roommate, Felix.
