Each side must have its satirized yet likable heroes.

Other detectives might have staked out this territory, but Mr. Zimmerman's likable hero makes a fresh claim.

It was the hero, Bobby, whom I thought was more freshly conceived: player and playboy, the apple of his father's eye, likable but immature.

This book features the author's more likable hero, the quick-witted artist named Kidd, and a literate charm that does not get lost among the laptops.

This is an expert, readable job with a likable hero.

Moreover, it flies in the face of American audience antipathy toward historical films and lacks a likable hero.

The likable hero is sweet-talking Bokky, played by Bill Paxton, who is also the film's producer.

Like "Money," it chronicles the spectacular fall of a not particularly likable hero.

This amiable novel, with its likable and relentlessly well-intentioned hero, would be better if it had a similar craving.

Mr. Prinze's flawed but likable hero is so blandly nice he barely exists on the screen.