But here's hoping he finds a producer who finds a way to make him a little bit more hatable, and therefore a lot more lovable.

If not, the league always needs a few hateable characters.

Stoke keeps coming up in these discussions because they are so hateable.

The characters are likable, hateable, and everything in between.

But now appears a young woman who, if not hateable, is maybe hissable.

In any case his supposed removal has reminded journalists that America is losing hateable figures at an appalling rate.

Sure he was hateable, but he had not aroused passions like Yount or even Manning.

But the thing in the back-that was purest, hackle-raising, - hateable alienness.

This era of downsizing, disco and double-knit leisure suits produced innovation borne of desperation and was an especially rich period for hateable vehicles.

"We have a very lovable cast, so I kind of feel like they're in charge of making the characters lovable and we as writers are in charge of making them hateable."

In this regard her vision is unblinking, but the emotional focus of her narrative remains so narrowly self-centered that some readers will be quick to agree when she describes herself and a similarly indulgent friend as "eminently hateable . . . spoiled babies."

And if an actor wants to prove that he can do heterosexual and hateable as smoothly as he can do homosexual and lovable, who better to go to than Neil LaBute, whose slight and sour comedy "SomeGirl(s)" opened last night at the Lucille Lortel Theater.