A hardened professional who had pounded the black show-business circuit since the turn of the century and would live to 100, Mastin is the most stimulating supporting character in both books.
Executive producer Tom Fontana said he thought the new cast additions would create drama and tension between the characters: "It's stimulating to add new people, because you're not feeling like you're writing or acting the same scene for the thousandth time, and I think all three of them are very different than any other characters we've had on the show".
The airwaves belong to us, and Americans crave what they have become accustomed to: well-crafted, provocative, stimulating erotica with dialogue that either reveals character or forwards the action.
I'm an artist -- it's all about playing characters that are intriguing and stimulating".
Tintin's iconic representation enhances this aspect, with Scott McCloud noting that it "allows readers to mask themselves in a character and safely enter a sensually stimulating world".
Like The Dinner Club, Rooijakkers' other designs are intellectually stimulating, including a lamp designed while impersonating a fictional character.
Tina Landau's clever and stimulating production turns Barrie's sometimes elaborate stage directions into a character, the Narrator (Keir Dullea), a trope that adds visual and intellectual strength to the delicate play.
What saves him, and the novel — it's an element that makes for a more stimulating richness of perspective, and makes it harder to "blame" any given character — is that he is ultimately as realistic as Lene, if rather more prone to self-justification.
Even without the amazing backstory or the arm's-length attachments; appropriations aside, and with subtle coincidences and other obscure references to Rothko, Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, and others; these works offer a remarkable singularity of character, resourcefulness and a confidence of spirit that is refreshing, stimulating and striking all at once.
In its most stimulating moments, it requires chess-like foresight, as you nudge your characters into feints and flanks.
