An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin ' in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.

He is also an avid classic arcade game collector and a columnist for GameRoom Magazine.

He is an avid fan of the classic film noir films of Humphrey Bogart.

Vaughan loves classic and custom cars, and is an avid car collector.

In the Season 3 episode " The Education Of A Superhero ", Francis Byte is an avid videogame player who is especially engrossed into gaining the high score on " Zellman Command " at the local arcade.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

The game again sparked controversy throughout a period of school shootings in the United States when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were avid players of the game.

Perhaps the most famous proponent of the game was Winston Churchill, an avid player and early expert of Six-Pack, or " Chinese " Bezique.

An avid chess player, Sting played Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game in 2000, along with four bandmates: Dominic Miller, Jason Rebello, Chris Botti, and Russ Irwin.

During a press interview for Kingdom Hearts II, Woods noted that he is an avid video game player.

The reviewers praised Pool of Radiance as " the first offering that truly follows AD & D game rules ", calling it a " great fantasy role-playing game " that " falls into the must-buy category for avid AD & D game players ".

Upon graduation, Shimomura intended to become a piano instructor and was extended a job offer to become a piano teacher at a music store, but as she had been an avid gamer for many years she decided to send some samples of her work to various video game companies that were recruiting at the university.

German lived, from 1886 in Hall Road, Maida Vale, near Lord's cricket ground where he was an avid enthusiast of that game.

Jones was an avid baseball fan and watched or participated in the game whenever his busy schedule allowed.

He was an avid baseball fan from an early age ; he became visiting batboy for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of five, and never had to buy a ticket to get into a baseball game again.

On January 31, 2012, Carter was honored as one of the 35 greatest McDonald's All-Americans, and on February 23, 2012, President Obama, an avid NCAA and NBA basketball fan, gave praise to Carter at a fundraiser event, referring to Carter's game as a " huge treat for me ever since he ’ s been playing for the Tar Heels.

In particular he was an avid supporter of free castling which was permitted under the Italian rules of the game but not elsewhere in Europe.

The English title is taken from the last part of a chess game, when there are very few pieces left ( the French title applies to games besides chess and Beckett lamented the fact that there was no precise English equivalent ); Beckett himself was an avid chess player.

An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

Ishiwatari originally voiced Sol Badguy ( whose real name is Fredderick, à la Queen's late lead singer Freddie Mercury ), a leading character in the game whom the manual describes as an avid fan of Queen.

He is an avid video game player who recently mentioned ( to PowerSlam Mag ) that he does not like the WWE SmackDown vs.

An avid miniatures wargamer, Jane first published All the World's Fighting Ships ( also known as Jane's Fighting Ships ) in 1898, which identified the warships operated by each country, their armaments, and other details, as a supplement to a game he designed.

This was despite him being an avid rugby union watcher and hockey player, who had only seen his first professional football game six months previously.

He loves a game of hockey but is above all an avid golfer.

Josh is an avid New York Mets fan, once trying to finish all of his work quickly in order to travel to a Mets intrasquad spring training game in Port St. Lucie, Florida His father, Noah Lyman, was a litigator and an old friend of Leo McGarry.

As well as an artist, Turner was an award-winning water skier, held an instructor level red sash in martial arts, and was an avid video game player.

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.

Subsequently, Helene Kröller-Müller became an avid art collector, and one of the first people to recognise the genius of Vincent van Gogh.

Edgar Degas was both an avid photographer and a collector of Japanese prints.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

Gell-Mann also is an avid birdwatcher, a collector of antiquities, rancher, and a keen linguist.

De Boodt was an avid mineral collector.

Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, and King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics.

While in Chicago, Yerkes became an avid art collector.

Hill was an avid collector and patron of the arts.

Breton was an avid collector of art, ethnographic material, and unusual trinkets.

Edward T. LeBlanc, a longtime editor of the periodical Dime Novel Round-Up, was also an avid collector and bibliographer of the format.

* Luns was an avid stamp collector.

He was an avid collector of antiques, books and posters and amassed a collection of over 53, 000 postcards ; he produced several compilation books of them including Ronnie Barker's Book of Bathing Beauties, A Pennyworth of Art and Sauce.

Irving had long been an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia, and in October 1982 purchased 800 pages of documents relating to Hitler, only to discover that many of the documents were forgeries.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is an avid collector of Pre-Raphaelite works and a selection of 300 items from his collection were shown at a major exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2003.

The bullet that killed Drake likely came from an antique gun, and Nick knows Janet's father is an avid collector.

Danzig became an avid collector of occult books, horror related articles, B movie posters, Japanese animation videos, rare Japanese toys, and animal skulls.

During his time with Led Zeppelin, Bonham was also an avid collector of antique sports cars and motorcycles, which he kept on his family's farm called The Old Hyde.

Getty was an avid collector of art and antiquities ; his collection formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, and over $ 661 million of his estate was left to the museum after his death.

Rick Nielsen is an avid collector who has over 250 guitars in his possession.

He is also an avid collector of vintage drums.

He became a folk artist and, as an avid coin collector, co-founded the Beverly Hills Coin Club in 1987 with much younger actor Chris Aable.