The N.F.L. might have first grabbed the public's attention in the late 1950s, but it needed celebrity, personality and recurring characters for its Sunday gridiron theater.
Bo Dietl, a former New York City detective turned media personality, was a recurring presence, a reliable source of cynical and racist laugh lines.
"We realized that one of the things that keeps people coming back to television are the characters, the recurring personalities that the viewer gets to know and identify with, or maybe they begin to dislike," he said.
Edgy, flamboyant characters like Agnes Moorehead's Endora, Paul Lynde's Uncle Arthur and many other recurring personalities "cleary show a very gay-identified humor, even back then," he said.
He conceived Jimmy as a composite of the band members' personalities — tough, romantic, crazy, imploring — with recurring and eventually interlocking themes to represent them.
Over half of the annual list of the 100 most influential media personalities are white and male, raising recurring questions over the lack of diversity in the media.
The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius (Big Boi) and Gemini (André 3000), which is indicative of the album's recurring theme of the differing personalities of the two members.
Another recurring pattern is that Cameron scores well on "personality" factors but trails Brown on "leadership" attributes.
He invests so much care in the décor and design that objects -- like Taransky's sublime vintage Bentley and the recurring Mercedes stretch limousine -- end up having as much personality as the actors.
If the thought is a recurring thought about the future or something about your appearance or personality, find a way to be reminded of these things less and become more accepting of yourself and future.
