He maintains a low public profile, though he has occasionally given interviews about the few memories he has of his father.

In interviews, Speight explained he had originally based Alf on his father, an East End docker who was staunchly reactionary and held " unenlightened " attitudes toward black people.

In the process, she interviews characters from past Clouseau films, and also meets Clouseau's equally inept father ( played by Richard Mulligan ).

My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts " Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer's namesake is his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer.

Sim's daughter has claimed in interviews that many assume that her father actually played the part.

In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks ; his relatively modest background ( his father was a greenskeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club ); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve ; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments ; and his affability.

Growing up, as a child, Gaye's main influence was that of his minister father, something he would later acknowledge to biographer David Ritz and also in interviews he gave, often mentioning that his father's sermons left a big impression on him.

Suzuki, in interviews, has many times credited his father for having interested him in and sensitized him to nature.

Over a series of interviews with an entire family, I shuffle them about, so that what was originally mother's chair is now where father is sitting.

During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

West recalled, in police interviews, that his father had said on many occasions " Do what you want, just don ’ t get caught doing it ".

In the Batman: Arkham Asylum universe, it is revealed in one of Nigma's patient interviews that his father was abusive, which is when his fascination with riddles and puzzles began.

* It has been assumed that The Simpsons ( 1989 ) creator Matt Groening named his most famous character, Homer Simpson, after his own father, however, in several interviews given in 1990, Groening reportedly stated that he named the character after the Homer in this novel, although neither explanation is considered definitive.

In it, Spiegelman interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor.

Spiegelman did a series of taped interviews over four days with his father, providing the basis of the longer Maus.

He began another series interviews with his father in 1978, and visited Auschwitz in 1979.

Featuring interviews from the likes of Stephen Colbert, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jackson, acclaimed scholars, and others, the program delved further into the Heroic Epic concept and the influences of mythology, and other motifs that were important in making Star Wars the standard of movies and other series for years to come, such as sins of the father and redeeming the father, coming of age, exiting the ordinary world, and others that all led to the defining " modern mythology " of our time.

In March 2004, Khadr gave a series of three interviews to PBS, which became the focus of a documentary entitled " Son of al Qaeda ", after largely passing a polygraph test, where he claimed that he grew up in " an al-Qaeda family ", and that he resented his father for associating with militants.

" In interviews, Dunne's father said that for a time he employed the services of private investigator Anthony Pellicano to follow and report upon Sweeney.

The song " Daddy " gave rise to a rumor that Rick Davis ( Jonathan's father ) had abused his son, even though Jonathan has gone on the record in many interviews saying it was written about a family friend who sexually abused him.

One 1999 study by Walter and Waterhouse reviewed the previous data on the level of reincarnation belief and performed a set of thirty in-depth interviews in Britain among people who did not belong to a religion advocating reincarnation.

Out of circulation for years due to licensing issues, Bogdanovich and TCM released it in 2006, featuring newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and others.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

Walter Moers is said to avoid publicity and very rarely gives interviews or allows himself to be photographed.

The documentary puts Star Wars into a sociological and political perspective by using interviews with spectators such as Walter Cronkite.

In interviews, Walter Gretzky has stated that his parents were Belarusians, while on other occasions he has mentioned his family's Polish ancestry.

In 2004, a book and accompanying DVD, Motion blur: graphic moving imagemakers, was co-edited by Hanson and Walter, with interviews mainly sourced from Matt Hanson's interviews from the onedotzero_global TV series, and additional photography from Walter.

In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Since interviewing is the basic therapeutic and diagnostic instrument of modern psychiatry, the recording of interviews for playbacks and study has been a boost of Redstone proportions in new research and training.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

However, if clusters are selected with probability proportionate to size, the same number of interviews should be carried out in each sampled cluster so that each unit sampled has the same probability of selection.

Feeling that Clark is the real person and that Clark is not afraid to be himself in his civilian identity, John Byrne has stated in interviews that he took inspiration for this portrayal from the George Reeves version of Superman.

The LTM label has released a large number of Dada-related sound recordings, including interviews with artists such as Tzara, Picabia, Schwitters, Arp and Huelsenbeck, and musical repertoire including Satie, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Picabia and Nelly van Doesburg.

Recently Day has participated in telephone interviews with a radio station that celebrates her birthday with an annual Doris Day music marathon.

However, she has also commented in interviews that, although it appears they do not spend much time together, it is simply that nobody sees him.

However, in many books and interviews, Jim Davis reveals that he has no definite plans for a Jon / Liz marriage.

It has previously aired on cable television via Nick at Nite from September 3, 2007 to October 2009 Tim Allen stated that it was a done deal that the DVDs would not contain interviews or episode commentaries.

Although not unchallenged, validity generalization has broad acceptance with regard to many selection instruments ( e. g. cognitive ability tests, job knowledge tests, work samples, and structured interviews ) across a broad range of jobs.

Kid Rock has stated in numerous interviews that he is a lover of hunting and fishing.

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

Lemmy has noted in several magazine and television interviews that he made more money from the royalties of that one song than he had in his entire time with Motörhead.

Zamir has stated repeatedly in interviews over the years that he was never consulted by the Germans at any time during the rescue attempt and that he thought that his presence actually made the Germans uncomfortable.

Outrage featured interviews with several people who claim that Governor of Florida Charlie Crist has led a private gay life while publicly opposing gay marriage and gay adoption.

In addition to political figures and prominent businessmen, the Oregon Historical Society has done interviews with minorities, women, farmers, and other ordinary citizens, who have contributed extraordinary stories reflecting the state's cultural and social heritage.

The subjects run the gamut of the otaku subculture: the interviews cover a cosplayer who now works as a computer programmer and outright denies his cosplay days, even when presented with photographic evidence, but keeps his Char Aznable helmet in his desk drawer, an airsoft otaku, a garage kit otaku, and a shut-in who videorecords television programs for trade, but has not actually watched anything he's recorded.

Punk has its own underground press in the form of punk zines, which feature news, gossip, cultural criticism, and interviews.