I did go to see my favorite childhood hero for the spiderman -3 release last friday. The movie did start off good, and looked like they were building up a boiling pot of a storyline. But they just did not do that. Somehow, too many characters, too many villains ruined the broth. I was disappointed with the story but I will not let others down by saying any further.
Good luck watching!

Technically this is across the street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and not actually in the facility but close enough. The Navy Yard was founded in 1801 by the US Navy for shipbuilding and such famous ships as the Monitor, the Maine, and Robert Fulton’s steamboat Fulton were built here. The 300 acre facility was decommissioned in 1966 and is now home to a variety of commercial and industrial businesses including Steiner Studios, the 2nd largest film studio in New York City (after Silvercup). The Producers and Spiderman 3 were shot at Steiner.

The great things about making a list about the 25 best something-or-other’s is there is always going to be disagreement and dissention, which are two of my favorite things.

But how does one select just 25 of the hundreds of thousands of characters from fantastic novels, plays, films and television show that have been set in our city? Well, first we laid down some ground rules:

- A fair mix of film, television, novels, comic books and plays, trying not to create too heavy of a skew to one medium or another
- No characters based on real people
- A healthy mix of modern vs. classic characters
- Famous duos canceled each other out (we might do a separate list for them later on down the line)
- For more modern, ensemble based shows (like Friends, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, etc) we decided to focus less on the main characters and more on a repeat secondary character
- Characters whose names we know, not just that they were the guy/girl from that thing
- Representation for some bad guys (not all great characters are heros)
- No two characters can be from the same show/movie/book, etc. With some many to choose from we didn’t want any duplicates.

From there we created a list of about 60 characters and whittled it down from there. The characters selected had a lot to do with which author wanted to write about whom and the order had a lot of do with schedules of the authors and such. The closest we got to a scientific method was mailing around suggestions and taking the ones that came up the most and putting them towards the top of the list. For instance, almost every person named Holden, so it was clear that he should be #1.
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