* There is also significant reference to an impossible object in Jonathan Lethem's most recent novel, Chronic City, where it plays a major part in the storyline.

Martin's work has been referenced in numerous arenas, from The Simpsons and Family Guy to The Colbert Report to Jonathan Lethem's 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn, which describes in detail the Tourette's-afflicted protagonist's affinity for Martin's cartoons.

Jonathan Lethem's 2003 book The Fortress of Solitude contains many references to the stoop ball game using a Spaldeen on the streets of 1970s Brooklyn.

It is the setting for two of Jonathan Lethem's novels: Motherless Brooklyn ( 1999 ), a crime mystery set on Bergen Street between Smith and Hoyt streets ; and The Fortress of Solitude ( 2002 ), set primarily on one block in Boerum Hill ( Dean Street between Nevins and Bond streets ).

The opening lines of the second chapter served as inspiration for Jonathan Lethem's science fiction / detective novel Gun, with Occasional Music: " There was nothing to it.

Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn wrote: " Read Vernon God Little not only for its dangerous relevance, but for the coruscating wit and raw vitality of its voice.

After tenth-graders read " Motherless Brooklyn ," author Jonathan Lethem came in to lead some classes on it.

Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem detective story set in Brooklyn and published in 1999.

* Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( Postmodern Mystery )

* Jonathan Lethem-Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Franzen at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival.

Producers brought in five-year-old Billy ( Jonathan Halyalkar ), a kid from the Micellis ' old Brooklyn neighborhood, who frequently visits the Bower residence to the point that he seemingly lives there.

Contemporary writers based in the city, many of whom live in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, include Norman Mailer, Barbara Garson, Don DeLillo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Thomas Pynchon and many others.

Jonathan Ames was responsible for the Most Phallic Building contest which followed an article he wrote for Slate magazine where he claimed that the Williamsburg Bank Building in Brooklyn, New York, was the most phallic building in the world.

" Subsequent one-volume editions include The Brooklyn Novels, with an introduction by the novelist Jonathan Lethem, published in 2006 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher.

** Jonathan ( Allen ) Lethem ( born 1964, Brooklyn ), a Jewish American writer

* The character of Absalom appears in Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Captain William Thomas Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with Ron Moody, Bill Pertwee, Eric Merriman's son Andy, Brian Cooke, Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn, and extracts from Kenneth Williams's diary read " in character " by David Benson.

In 1969, he was cast as Jonathan Brewster, a Frankenstein monster-like character, in a television production of Arsenic and Old Lace.

* The Babi Yar executions are described in detail in Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes ( in English, The Kindly Ones ), whose main character, Dr. Aue, is one of the Nazi officers in charge.

Peter Sallis and Jonathan Linsley were the only actors from the original series to appear in the spin-off: Sallis played the father of his own character from the original show and Linsley appeared during the second series as a different character.

The character returned for the 1969-1970 series Hark at Barker as the main character ; Barker wrote for the show under the name Jonathan Cobbald.

Other co-stars included Denis O ' Hare as Phillip Steele ( an amalgam character based on Crisp's friends Phillip Ward and Tom Steele ), Jonathan Tucker as artist Patrick Angus, Cynthia Nixon as Penny Arcade, and Swoosie Kurtz as Connie Clausen.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

Jonathan Archer is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

Massey portrayed the character of Jonathan Brewster in the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace.

John Redcorn III ( voiced by Victor Aaron Season 1, Jonathan Joss Season 2-13 ), is a character in the animated series King of the Hill.

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 American teen comedy film directed by Tim Hill, written by David L. Watts, James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Mark Blackwell, and starring Alex D. Linz as the title character.

* Historical Consultant Jonathan Stamp of the HBO / BBC series Rome identifies Clodia as the primary basis for the character of Atia of the Julii.

Other parents include Chas Finster, Chuckie's stereotypically-nerdy, mild-mannered father ; a widower who later remarries with Kira, Chuckie's sweet-natured, kind, and understanding stepmother in Rugrats in Paris, Drew Pickles, Angelica's indulgent, doting father who pampers his daughter to a ridiculous degree, Charlotte Pickles, Angelica's working mother who overindulges her daughter equally and possesses the character hallmark of arguing on her cellular phone with an employee of hers, Jonathan ; Betty DeVille, Phil and Lil's kind but masculinely-natured mother and Howard DeVille, the twins ' mild-mannered, soft-spoken father.

The origin of the band's name has been variously described as being inspired by a sign in a lift in a very tall building in the US ; the top level of the biggest car-park in the world, in Japan ; the floor on which Jonathan Pryce's character resides in the film Brazil ( which was released long after the band gained international recognition ); or after Tower 42 ( also known as the NatWest Tower ) formerly the tallest building in the City of London.

* In the pilot episode of Bored to Death the main character Jonathan Ames played by Jason Schwartzman reads Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely and uses the name Philip Marlowe as a pseudonym.

At the same time, American playwrights created several long-lasting American character types, especially the " Yankee ", the " Negro " and the " Indian ", exemplified by the characters of Jonathan, Sambo and Metamora.

This too refers to Targum Onkelos on the public Torah reading and to Targum Jonathan on the haftarot from Nevi ' im.

The term cliometrics was originally coined by Jonathan R. T. Hughes and Stanley Reiter in 1960 and refers to Clio, who was the muse of history and heroic poetry in Greek mythology.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

The folk song " Athens County " by Jonathan Edwards refers to Athens Ohio, where Edwards attended college in the 1970s.

Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to the film as " the best expression of Spielberg's benign, dreamy-eyed vision.

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the eponymic hero refers to his travels in Tartary on two occasions, and suggests that the then modern geographers of Europe were " in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California ; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the great continent of Tartary ..."

" In fact, the 1835 source cited refers to a foreign-speaker: " Jonathan distinguishes a Dutch or a French Canadian, by the term Kanuk ".

Despite Uriah's status as one of David's mighty men, British rabbi Jonathan Magonet observes that Uriah refers to Joab, not David, as ' my lord ( or commander )' ( 2 Samuel 11: 11 ).

The name refers to Jonathan Klein's comment about bloggers working in their pajamas.

It refers to a mooted attempt to rescue Jonathan Trelawny.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

In her first book, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, in her faux footnotes, refers to a book called, " The Language of the Birds.

Its members are Cornelius Boots, Jonathan Russell, Jeff Anderle, and Aaron Novik, playing what the group refers to as " heavy chamber music.