1.   A VIOLENT gun-toting movie character is joined on screen by his biggest teenage fan, who teaches his idol how to be nice.

2.   Altogether the most admirable movie character since Lassie.

3.   And now we see companies like Disney reaping far more revenues from selling products based on movie characters than from the movie ticket sales themselves.

4.   Besides an obvious talent for drawing, what is the secret of creating memorable movie cartoon characters?

5.   Birch reports that being possessed by her movie characters has become the real occupational hazard over the past three years.

6.   A series of horror movie characters, including Frankenstein, is due out this fall.

7.   Additionally, no movie character has connected in a major way with the public recently.

8.   But the movie character marries with the understanding that it will be purely a cerebral union.

9.   But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.

10.   But this is a classic case of seeing, rather than feeling, something a movie character is going through.