Bakers Dozen

Theatrical productions you’ve attended

  1. Purdue students’ production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”
  2. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s performance of the rock opera “Beethoven’s Last Night”
  3. Community theater production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
  4. Mike Birbiglia’s standup/storytelling act, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend”
  5. Community theater production of Comedy of Errors
  6. Community theater production of MASH
  7. Community Theatre production Italian-American Reconciliation
  8. Broadway: The Lion King
  9. London, Fall '85: Original cast of Les Miserables
  10. Broadway, circa 1975: The Wiz

Only Broadway show I’ve ever seen.

Suits me.

Theatrical productions you’ve attended

  1. Purdue students’ production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”
  2. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s performance of the rock opera “Beethoven’s Last Night”
  3. Community theater production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
  4. Mike Birbiglia’s standup/storytelling act, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend”
  5. Community theater production of Comedy of Errors
  6. Community theater production of MASH
  7. Community Theatre production Italian-American Reconciliation
  8. Broadway: The Lion King
  9. London, Fall '85: Original cast of Les Miserables
  10. Los Angeles, 1980: Evita

Theatrical productions you’ve attended

  1. Purdue students’ production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”
  2. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s performance of the rock opera “Beethoven’s Last Night”
  3. Community theater production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
  4. Mike Birbiglia’s standup/storytelling act, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend”
  5. Community theater production of Comedy of Errors
  6. Community theater production of MASH
  7. Community Theatre production Italian-American Reconciliation
  8. Broadway: The Lion King
  9. London, Fall '85: Original cast of Les Miserables
  10. Los Angeles, 1980: Evita
  11. Broadway 1998: Puttin’ It Together (starring Carol Burnett, George Hern, and Bronson Pinchot)

Theatrical productions you’ve attended

  1. Purdue students’ production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”
  2. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s performance of the rock opera “Beethoven’s Last Night”
  3. Community theater production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
  4. Mike Birbiglia’s standup/storytelling act, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend”
  5. Community theater production of Comedy of Errors
  6. Community theater production of MASH
  7. Community Theatre production Italian-American Reconciliation
  8. Broadway: The Lion King
  9. London, Fall '85: Original cast of Les Miserables
  10. Broadway, circa 1975: The Wiz
  11. Los Angeles, 1980: Evita
  12. Broadway 1998: Puttin’ It Together (starring Carol Burnett, George Hern, and Bronson Pinchot)
  13. Community theatre: The Rainmaker

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood

New category: Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood

Could be the same guy in #6, but maybe not.

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood
  9. The Snatch and the other Nameless Detective books, Bill Pronzini

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood
  9. The Snatch and the other Nameless Detective books, Bill Pronzini
  10. The Operative in Serenity

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood
  9. The Snatch and the other Nameless Detective books, Bill Pronzini
  10. The Operative in Serenity
  11. Zombieland - Woody Harrelson’s character doesn’t want to get emotionally attached to anyone, so everyone is addressed as either where they’re from or where they’re going.

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood
  9. The Snatch and the other Nameless Detective books, Bill Pronzini
  10. The Operative in Serenity
  11. Zombieland - Woody Harrelson’s character doesn’t want to get emotionally attached to anyone, so everyone is addressed as either where they’re from or where they’re going.
  12. The Ipcress File and sequels, Len Deighton

The main character was nameless in the books but was given the name Harry Palmer in the movie adaptations.

I’d also note that the Deaf Man and the Operative are not the main characters of the works they appear in. But I’m not going to press the point.

Books or movies where the main character is nameless.

  1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
  2. The Deaf Man, the main character in several of Ed McBain’s mysteries.
  3. Red Harvest and the other Continental Op works, Dashiell Hammett
  4. The narrator of Fight Club, both the book and movie.
  5. Layer Cake, novel by J.J. Connolly and 2004 movie
  6. High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
  7. The Road, book by Cormac McCarthy
  8. Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood
  9. The Snatch and the other Nameless Detective books, Bill Pronzini
  10. The Operative in Serenity
  11. Zombieland - Woody Harrelson’s character doesn’t want to get emotionally attached to anyone, so everyone is addressed as either where they’re from or where they’re going.
  12. The Ipcress File and sequels, Len Deighton
  13. Buddwing by Evan Hunter

Books or movies where the main character has only one name

  1. Burke–Andrew Vachss’s mysteries series

Books or movies where the main character has only one name

  1. Burke–Andrew Vachss’s mysteries series
  2. Eli - Denzel Washington movie, The Book of Eli

Books or movies where the main character has only one name

  1. Burke–Andrew Vachss’s mysteries series
  2. Eli - Denzel Washington movie, The Book of Eli
  3. Spenser - the detective series by Robert B. Parker

His first name is never revealed.

Books or movies where the main character has only one name

  1. Burke–Andrew Vachss’s mysteries series
  2. Eli - Denzel Washington movie, The Book of Eli
  3. Spenser - the detective series by Robert B. Parker
  4. NCIS:LA - Special Agent Callen
    No one, except maybe Hetty, knows what his first initial G. stands for.