Sentences with phrase «prominent white character»

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

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First, the team found clips of mixed - race scenes from 11 popular TV shows with prominent black and white characters.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

Co-curated by Teresa A. Carbone, the museum's curator of American art and Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history at Columbia University, «Witness» assembles a refreshing mix of African American artists (Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Barkley Hendricks, Jae Jarrell, Jacob Lawrence, John T. Riddle Jr., Charles White, William T. Williams) and artists of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, including several prominent white artists (Phillip Guston, Robert Indiana, Norman Rockwell, Ed Ruscha) inspired by the volatile climate of the era that would come to define a great part of America's charaWhite, William T. Williams) and artists of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, including several prominent white artists (Phillip Guston, Robert Indiana, Norman Rockwell, Ed Ruscha) inspired by the volatile climate of the era that would come to define a great part of America's charawhite artists (Phillip Guston, Robert Indiana, Norman Rockwell, Ed Ruscha) inspired by the volatile climate of the era that would come to define a great part of America's character.

Given the gallery's setting in a prominent turn - of - the - century apartment building, the sculptures here enter in to dialogue with the elegant white double - panel French doors, which pepper the apartment - gallery and account for its authentic Viennese character.