Pee-wee Herman

Pee-wee Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens. He is best known for his two television series and film series during the 1980s. Pee-wee is commonly portrayed like an impatient and fun-loving child with dainty, effeminate mannerisms and quirky facial expressions. His age has never been explicitly stated; although, he once proclaimed on The Pee-wee Herman Show, “I’m the luckiest boy in the world.”

David Letterman once said of the character, “What makes me laugh…is that it has the external structure of a bratty little precocious kid, but you know it’s being controlled by the incubus — the manifestation of evil itself.” While the character is typically cheerful and flamboyant, Pee-wee has indeed displayed an aggressive side, including his vicious pool battle with Francis in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. He also played vengeful tricks in the aforementioned film and occasionally threw childish tantrums on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.

The Count has a love of counting (arithmomania); he will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much he annoys everyone around him.

Following a counting session, the Count has been known to laugh maniacally, “AH AH AH AH AH!”.   He wouldn’t let anything interrupt his counting, and uses his hypnotic powers to temporarily stun people with a wave of his hands.

The Count lives in an old castle which he shares with many bats, which he has named Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tatiana.  He also has a cat, Fatatita. He also drives a special car designed in the features of a bat, named the Countmobile.

The Count’s former girlfriend, Countess von Backwards, was known for counting backwards. More recently he has been seen with a new girlfriend, Countess Dahling von Dahling.

Eustace Tilley was the hero of a series entitled “The Making of a Magazine,” which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer. He was a younger man than the figure of the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley’s last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous.

Tilley was always busy, and in illustrations by Johann Bull, always poised. He might be in Mexico, supervising the vast farms that grew the cactus for binding the magazine’s pages together. The Punctuation Farm, where commas were grown in profusion, because Ross had developed a love of them, was naturally in a more fertile region. Tilley might be inspecting the Initial Department, where letters were sent to be capitalized. Or he might be superintending the Emphasis Department, where letters were placed in a vise and forced sideways, for the creation of italics. He would jump to the Sargasso Sea, where by insulting squids he got ink for the printing presses, which were powered by a horse turning a pole. It was told how in the great paper shortage of 1882 he had saved the magazine by getting society matrons to contribute their finery. Thereafter dresses were made at a special factory and girls employed to wear them out, after which the cloth was used for manufacturing paper. Raoul Fleischmann, who had moved into the offices to protect his venture with Ross, gathered the Tilley series into a promotion booklet. Later, Ross took a listing for Eustace Tilley in the Manhattan telephone directory.

The character first appeared on Chance and Community Chest cards in U.S. editions of Monopoly in 1936. The identity of the artist who designed the character has remained a mystery. Historian and author Philip Orbanes wrote in 2004 that it is believed that the character is based on either the calling cards of Albert Richardson (Parker Brothers’ first traveling salesman), the character of “Little Esky” from Esquire magazine, or a combination of the two. Orbanes later wrote, in 2006, that the character was also partially influenced by the stature and dress of financier and banker J. P. Morgan.

Stewie Griffin

Stewart Gilligan “Stewie” Griffin is a fictional character in the animated series Family Guy voiced by Seth MacFarlane.   Stewie is a one-year-old with a very sophisticated psyche.  Stewie is well-spoken, with an advanced vocabulary and an English accent and an ambiguous sexual orientation. Stewie’s sexuality – even though he is a one-year-old – is deliberately ambiguous and he frequently is depicted wearing women’s clothes and sometimes makeup.

Stewie is also bent on world domination as well as the destruction of Lois, his mother and often refers to his father, Peter as “The Fat Man”.

On the show, Stewie engages in extreme violent or criminal acts, including robbery, carjacking, loan sharking, forgery, and killing off many minor characters. The characters he kills off are for reasons such as anger, jealousy, and grudges he holds. Stewie’s mastery of physics, mechanical engineering, and firearms are at a level of science fiction.
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Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace better known by only his last name Liberace, was a famous American entertainer and pianist.  When Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity, Liberace was the highest paid entertainer in the world.

Unlike the concerts of classical pianists which normally ended with applause and a retreat off-stage, Liberace’s shows ended with the public invited on-stage to touch the maestro’s clothes, piano, jewelry, and hands. Kisses, handshakes, hugs, and caresses usually followed^.

A critic summed up his appeal near the end of Liberace’s life: ” Mr. Showmanship has another more potent, drawing power to his show: the warm and wonderful way he works his audience. Surprisingly enough, behind all the glitz glitter, the corny false modesty and the shy smile, Liberace exudes a love that is returned to him a thousand-fold.”

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Captain Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise who is portrayed by Johnny Depp.

Sparrow is the Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea and can be treacherous, surviving mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than weapons and force; although he will fight if necessary, he tries to flee most dangerous situations.

Sparrow sports dreadlocks, an aesthetic influenced by Depp’s rock n’ roll approach to pirating. In addition to a red bandana, Sparrow wears numerous objects in his hair, sports eye makeup and has several gold teeth.

According to screenwriters, Sparrow is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals.  He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures. He alsowears a three-cornered leather hat.

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Erik von Markovik AKA "Mystery".

Canadian author and entertainer Erik von Markovik is also known as “Mystery”.  Well known in the “seduction community”, he is one of the main characters in the non-fiction book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” by his “best friend” Neil Strauss.

He was featured in the 2007 VH1 reality television series The Pick-up Artist. Mystery is the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest pick-up artist” and was introduced as the “world’s most successful pick-up artist” during the premiere of his VH1 show.

Mystery has also received several notable awards within the seduction community. Mystery has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Pick-up Artists Of The Year for the last seven years, and one commercial website awarded him the top spot in 2007.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell’s Soup can were hugely popular and established him as the leader of the so-called Pop Art movement. (His multi-color, multi-image portrait of Marilyn Monroe is another famous image from this era.)

By the mid-1960s Warhol had become an icon of the psychedelic generation; he made strange and lengthy experimental movies, held famous gatherings in “The Factory,” his Manhattan studio, and surrounded himself with a court of fellow artists and adoring fans. He also worked closely with the experimental rock group The Velvet Underground and (in 1969) founded the influential celebrity magazine Interview.

Warhol’s attitude was summed up in part in his statement, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was an 19th century Irish writer whose works include the play The Importance of Being Earnest and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also one of the Victorian era’s most famous dandies, a wit whose good-humored disdain for convention became less favored after he was jailed for homosexuality.

In 1895, at the height of his popularity, his relationship with the young poet Lord Alfred Douglas was declared inappropriately intimate by Douglas’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde sued for libel, but the tables were turned when it became clear there was enough evidence to charge Wilde with “gross indecency” for his homosexual relationships. He was convicted and spent two years in jail, after which he went into self-imposed exile in France, bankrupt and in ill health.

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