ALAN MEDUSSA: Chairman of the Medussa News Corporation, a conglomerate of TV stations, music and television programming, theater production, newspaper publishing including the infamous tabloid the New York Globe, and the New York Orbits Baseball Team.
GERARDO DEROSA: Part-time aspiring musician, but mainly a modern day indentured servant, destitute immigrant cabdriver, forced to drive a cab and commit criimes to pay off a debt to a criminal gang in his home country. Why does he do it? They are holdiing his wife hostage. A chance encounter driving his cab for Alan Medussa sets this bizarre tale in motion.
ANNE COLEMAN: Alan's half-niece with designs on becoming a major player in the company. She is now the head of its theater production, placed there by Alan in the hope that she will fail miserably. But Alan will be quite surprised by her competitence and cunning, in many ways possessing the same traits that drive his own very persona.
BORIS ROCHSHIRE: Famed investment banker and honored man of Wall Street, now exposed as defrauding investors of billions, including Medussa News Corporation. His long-time association with Alan as a friend and business associate casts him as false friend and a betrayer. What is the greater sin, violence or betrayal?
ROBERTO GRANADA: Five time all-star baseball player, now recruited by Alan to play for the struggling New York Orbits. Roberto holds the key to turning the team around, but he gets a bit too close to Alan by entering into a romance with someone close to him. Can Roberto survive the chin music that Alan hurls at him through his media apparatus?
QUOTES
“Aha. So my blood suffers from a lack of circulation while my cancer has no problem making its way about town.” (Alan to his doctor).
“Meeting me in that cab was like the ultimate in scratch and match.” (Alan to Gerardo, the distressed cabdriver).
“What it comes down to is that we’re all in similar predicaments. We can make all sorts of legal threats and bring our grudges to the lawyers and the police, but the best way is to use the means we currently have at our disposal. As I see it, these two cabs are the instruments to resolve these conflicts, each with a team of driver and passenger working together.” (Alan to Li’l Sheanna, Alberto and Gerardo).
“At least I have the way to a succession plan whereas you have nothing. I guess it was your sexual…indecisiveness, or should we say your propensity to switch-hit, and more and more from the left side as you aged. Or was it just a lack of good swimmers?” (Gianna to Alan)
Alan: The returns you got for us did seem generous, but that was your job, wasn’t it? After awhile, whatever might have seemed crazy became reality.
Rochshire: Yes, you dreamed the impossible dream.
Gerardo: I have no reason to trust you anymore. You are now employing the same gang that tortured me and my wife. You, a respected businessman.
Alan: Don’t kid yourself. With the stock price where it is, I’m not so respected these days.
