Movie Characters

10 Sure Signs a Movie Character Is Doomed, and Other Surprising Movie Lists

From The 10 Most Disgusting Movies Ever to The Worst Irish Accents in Recent Movie History to 15 Perks of Being a Movie Character, movie critic and co-host of Ebert & Roeper Richard Roeper offers a hilarious collection of movie lists that covers every film idiosyncrasy out there.

The Dragon Pool

Based on the enormously popular comic book and movie character, this all-new original novel begins as Anastasia Bransfield, Hellboy's old flame, spearheads an archaeological dig at a lake in the Himalayas that is the legendary home of an evil dragon. Original.

The Movie Posters of Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan''s talent for capturing what is both human and heroic in the face of a movie character has made him the top Hollywood film campaign artist for the past 30 years. Struzan, the last of the

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Chasing Charlie Chan

Charlie Chandler is a young female cop who has earned a promotion to detective. Its her dream come true since her late father and grandfather were both detectives. Her new sexist boss assigns her to a murder at the Walnut Creek Amusement Park. Just the right job for a brainy broad, he says. Its her first day on the job. Charlie tackles the job with her new partner, Officer Mitchell Yen, a young man of Chinese ancestry. In her heart she doesnt have confidence that she can do it, and her performance suffers. Shes afraid of disappointing Dad. Both Charlie and her dad were great fans of the old Charlie Chan movies, so she applies the wisdom and sayings of the old movie character to her new murder case. But things go wrong.

The Conversation Piece: Creative Questions to Tickle the Mind

The Conversation Piece will make you think twice about the everyday opinions you take for granted. What instrument is not music to your ears? If, for one day, you could have anything to yourself--any object or place--what would you choose? What food and beverage combination is your personal favorite? What movie character is most like you?The Conversation Piece provides more than three hundred opportunities to explore creatively your thoughts about the world you live in. It's a book about you, about your friends--about everyone you know! If you were an entry in the dictionary, under which word would people find you? Ask yourself today. . . . You may change your mind tomorrow!

Imposters

Millions of people trekking from the near and far ends of the world to Los Angeles every year head straight to the heart of Hollywood, with vain hopes for a close encounter of the celebrity kind. And despite the mid-90s' billion-dollar facelift of the Entertainment District, many are still shocked by Tinseltown's lackluster facade, finding the Walk of Fame's slabs of cement displaying imprints of Groucho Marx's cigar. Betty Grable's legs, John Wayne's fist and R2D2's feet a little disappointing. But have no fear: entrepreneurial souls live here, so visitors can still go home with one-of-a-kind portraits of themselves with their favorite superhero or movie character. Never mind that some consider these street performers to be panhandlers, or that local businesses have described them as a nuisance. Everyone who comes to Hollywood feels like they really could be somebody. In the meantime, it might just pay better to be somebody else.

Schlock Value

From The Publisher:A hilarious collection of essays, riffs, and lists that celebrate the insanity of Hollywood -- for anyone who loves the movies. Richard Roeper, like the rest of us, adores the movies. In this uproarious, offbeat book, he gives us a whole new set of critical lenses for assessing the movies and the people and the industry that make them. With his characteristic acerbic wit, he weaves short essays with lists that work together to explain where Hollywood succeeds -- and where it so often frustrates, disappoints, and fails us. But while Roeper devotes most of the book to mockery and ridicule, this book is, in the end, a love letter to film.About The Author:Richard Roeper is the co-host of the nationally syndicated Ebert & Roeper at the Movies (watched by more than 2.5 million viewers each week) and author of 10 Sure Signs a Movie Character Is Doomed & Other Surprising Movie Lists. A daily columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Times syndicate, he was the recipient of the National Headliner Award in 1993 as the top columnist in the country. He is the film critic for the CBS affiliate in Chicago and contributes monthly essays on film to Esquire. Richard Roeper lives in Chicago.

Tex Averys Droopy-Complete Theatrical Collection

Droopy, a detective Basset hound, lulls the bad guys into a false sense of security by acting slow and dumb when in actual fact he is a genius. The shrewd Droopy always outwits his enemies! Droopy Dog was a low-key animated movie character created by Tex Avery at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943, this mournful deadpan witty Basset hound detective who spoke in a jowly monotone voice and, though he didn't look like much, was shrewd enough to outwit his enemies - the conniving Butch the Irish bulldog and the thieving, nasty wolf and English Fox. This two disc collection includes 24 classic cartoons: Dumb-Hounded, The Shooting of Dan McGoo, Wild and Woolfy, Northwest Hounded Police, Senor Droopy, Wags to Riches, Out-Foxed, The Chump Champ, Daredevil Droopy, Droopy's Good Deed, Droopy's Double Trouble , Caballero Droopy, The Three Little Pups, Drag-A-Long Droopy, Homesteader Droopy, Dixieland Droopy, Deputy Droopy, Millionaire Droopy, Grin and Share It, Blackboard Jumble, One Droopy Knight, Sheep Wrecked, Mutts About Racing, and Droopy Leprechaun!