Hackman is an avid fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and regularly attended Jaguars games as a guest of then head coach Jack Del Rio.

He was also an avid fan of radio comedy from an early age, becoming especially drawn to that of The Goon Show.

Not knowing how the ship works, Jason then contacts an avid Galaxy Quest fan named Brandon in his suburban home on Earth, using a Vox communicator that he accidentally swapped at a promotional store opening.

King George IV was also an avid fan of Audubon and a subscriber to the book.

Although it never sold in the numbers Fuhrmann envisioned, the 928 developed an avid fan following and enjoyed an eighteen year production run.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino was an avid film fan.

An avid fan of games, in 1968 and 1969 Sondheim published a series of cryptic crossword puzzles in New York magazine.

He was an avid fan of music and English literature, and enjoyed reading the King James Bible.

Wilson was an avid baseball fan.

As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading, and became an avid fan of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Leone was also an avid fan of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film adaptation.

An avid racing fan, he often enjoyed participating in or watching area speedway races, with other authors tagging along.

He was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

The album was little noticed outside the Netherlands, where a small but avid fan base developed.

Two weeks after the match former President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid boxer and fan, wrote an article for The Outlook in which he supported banning not just moving pictures of boxing matches, but a complete ban on all prize fights in America.

The song was written by J. Swayzee, an avid Blackhawks fan, and produced by the Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir in 1968 and is heard quite often both in vocal and organ renditions during Blackhawks home games.

To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R & B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as " Jocko " Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's " Dr. Jive " ( Tommy Smalls ), the " Moon Dog " Alan Freed, and Nashville's " John R ." Richbourg, who later became his mentor.

McFarlane is an avid baseball fan ; he briefly tried to achieve a pro career in the sport as a young adult.

He was an avid cricket fan and befriended the young C. P. Snow who was one also.

He is a avid fan of Biffy Clyro as the band discovered when Danielewski attended one of their shows after they borrowed the title of his novel Only Revolutions for their own album.

( However, various members had been fans of such music long before Black Flag, with Ginn being an avid Grateful Dead fan, and Cadena a fan of Hawkwind.

Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.

Mr. Simpson is an avid Ottawa Senators fan and in 2011 attempted to convince the team to replace its general manager, referencing his position as the Globe's national affairs columnist on the newspaper's letterhead to demand the change.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

In his youth, he was an avid reader of science fiction literature.

He is obsessed with collecting comic books and is an avid science fiction buff.

Speaking six languages ( Latin, Sicilian, German, French, Greek and Arabic ), Frederick was an avid patron of science and the arts.

While living with his oldest brother, Uriah Theodore, McKay became an avid reader of classical and British literature, as well as philosophy, science and theology.

Ley was an avid reader of science fiction, and began publishing scientific articles in American science fiction magazines, beginning with " The Dawn of the Conquest of Space " in the March 1937 issue of Astounding Stories.

Beyond computer science, Hudak is an avid sports fan, and was head coach of Hamden High's women's lacrosse team for eight years.

An avid fan of science fiction, he took part in a special BBC evening dedicated to Star Trek and has attended some of the ' Season Launches ' of Doctor Who alongside many other celebrities.

Along with his best friend Richie, Virgil is shown to be an avid fan of comic books and science fiction ( though not obsessively ).

In chapter 43 of the expanded version of Stephen King's 1978 novel The Stand, dialogue between the characters Nick Andros ( who is characterized as an avid science fiction reader ) and Tom Cullen alludes to The Word For World is Forest as they enter Woods County, Oklahoma: "' The world is the place I mean ,' Tom said.

An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan ( where he earned an Honours B. A.

He named this place Konark which means “ Essence of the Corners ” While the structure commemorates the victory in the battle against the Muslims, the name Konark commemorates the science of astronomy of which the King was an avid student.

The Emperor himself, who was an avid amateur scientist and enthusiastic supporter of all branches of science, contributed with several of the collections of the art of Ancient Egypt, botanical fossils, etc., which he acquired during many of his trips abroad.

He is an avid reader on subjects pertaining to history, science, anthropology and literature.

Characterized by one literary critic as an " anti-Stalinist dialectician ", James was known for his autodidactism, for his occasional playwriting and fiction, and as an avid sportsman.

She is an avid theatre-goer and reader of detective fiction.

At Waseda University, Ibuse was greatly influenced by the works of Shakespeare and Basho ; he was also an avid reader of French fiction and poetry.

Knight said the withering of " New Fandom " should be counteracted by the creation of a general-purpose organization to link avid readers of all forms of speculative fiction.

Here, he learned to read, developing an avid interest in popular fiction as a boy, and moving on to literary fiction and poetry in later years.

Chiosso's lyrics were inspired by the American crime fiction he was an avid reader of, as well as by current news.

* An avid reader, she favors novels of the “” ( historical fiction ) genre.

Müller sees to the proof reading and the publication of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor and becomes an avid collector of reviews of the book, comparing it with the fiction of Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, and even James Joyce.