Zelda believed, her biographer Milford said, that Scott's work contained " an American temperament grounded in belief in oneself and ' will-to-survive ' that Scott's contemporaries had relinquished.

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.

However, in October 2010, Bear commented on his website that Ken Nolan ( who wrote the screen adaptation for Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down film ), was actively working on a screenplay.

Scott's original ambition was to be a writer like his favorite author, F. Scott Fitzgerald ; while attending Redford High School in Detroit, he wrote many short stories, none of which was ever published.

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) wrote the novel The Heart of Midlothian and lived at Lasswade Cottage ( now Sir Walter Scott's Cottage ) in Lasswade from 1798 to 1804, where he wrote his Grey Brother, translation of Goetz von Berlichingen, etc.

He also wrote introductions to new publications of such diverse works as Great Expectations, Walter Scott's Old Mortality, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson.

Following Scott's death, Christopher wrote a book entitled, Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott ?, in which he rebuts rumors of his father's alleged homosexuality.

He found his ideal contributors in John Wilson ( who wrote as Christopher North ) and John Gibson Lockhart ( later Walter Scott's son-in-law and biographer ).

Over the course of her first six weeks at the clinic, she wrote an entire novel and sent it to Scott's publisher, Maxwell Perkins.

Zelda and Scott's grave in Rockville, MarylandTheir daughter Scottie wrote after their deaths: " I think ( short of documentary evidence to the contrary ) that if people are not crazy, they get themselves out of crazy situations, so I have never been able to buy the notion that it was my father's drinking which led her to the sanitarium.

) Eventually she won Scott's approval ; he wrote to Perkins, " Here is Zelda's novel.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Meanwhile, inspired by Sir Walter Scott's novels, Hauff wrote the historical romance Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der wuerttembergischen Geschichte ( 1826 ; Lichtenstein: Romantic Saga from the History of Württemberg ), which became hugely popular in Germany and especially in Swabia, treating as it did the most interesting period in the history of that country, the reign of Duke Ulrich ( 1487 – 1550 ).

" Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that " the propulsive, at times borderline preposterous popcorn-thriller storylines ; the slice-and-dice editing and the images that somehow managed to glow with grit ; the fireball violence, often glimpsed in smeary-techno telephoto shots ; the way he had of making actors seem volatile and dynamic and, at the same time, lacking almost any subtext " were qualities of Scott's films that both " excited audiences about his work " and " kept him locked outside the gates of critical respectability.

" Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times wrote that Denzel Washington — who starred in Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable — was Scott's muse, and Scott " was at his best when Washington was in the picture.

Williams also wrote the book of Ridley Scott's film The Duellists.

In his autobiography Pisemsky wrote: " Nobody had ever forced me to learn, and I wasn't an avid learner, but I read a lot and that was my passion: by 14 I consumed, in translation, of course, most of Walter Scott's novels, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, Faublas, Le Diable boiteux, The Serapion Brethren, a Persian novel called Haggi Baba ... As for children's books, I couldn't stand them and, as far as I remember now, considered them very silly ".

Scott's son, Charles, Jr., wrote to his brother Daniel that their father was planning to run for Congress in 1792 ; although Charles, Jr. expressed confidence that his father would be elected, his campaign apparently never materialized or faltered shortly after it began.

Lesser known Dutch individuals with international credits include Hollywood sound designer Charles Deenen ; Oscar-winning director Marleen Gorris who made a number of international productions including the 1997 adaptation of Mrs Dalloway and currently works on several British productions ; DJ and composer Junkie XL who wrote additional music for Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven and scored the action film DOA: Dead or Alive ; Sylvia Kristel, most famous for her role as Emmanuelle in a series of softcore movies, also appeared in a large number of lesser known American ( TV -) movies, of which The Nude Bomb, a feature film adaptation of the TV-series Get Smart is probably the most notable.

During a 1982 broadcast ( index number S-1086-3 ), Wes spoke with Dr. Scott publicly for over twenty minutes, stating that before coming across Dr. Scott's television program, he had never understood or felt drawn toward Christianity.

" Based upon intelligence provided by Scott's mounted volunteers, Wayne ordered his force to march toward Fort Miami on August 14, anticipating a battle with a combined British and Indian force of 2, 400 there.

As The Beautiful and Damned neared publication, Burton Rascoe, the freshly appointed literary editor of the New York Tribune, approached Zelda for an opportunity to entice readers with a cheeky review of Scott's latest work.

Zelda had a deep desire to develop a talent that was entirely her own, perhaps a reaction to Scott's fame and success as a writer.

Zelda and Scott's legend had penetrated widely into popular culture: in the 1979 Woody Allen film Manhattan, when Allen's friend confides that he plans to leave his wife for his mistress ( who happens to be Allen's ex-girlfriend ), Allen asks in disbelief if he plans to " run away with the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award ".

Bruccoli has also edited Scott's wife Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel Save Me the Waltz.

" Zelda was writing furiously ; she finished the novel on March 9 and sent it to Scott's publisher, their friend Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's.

She sang him Scott's charming ballad `` Rosabelle '', which was the vogue of the moment.

The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.

In contrast, the director's cut of Scott's Kingdom of Heaven ( which was a commercial failure in its 2005 theatrical release ) is the true version of the film Scott wanted, nearly an hour longer and has been met with more critical acclaim than the original version.

The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.

Another version, slightly different from Scott's, was found in his papers.

It was finally published, together with Scott's version, in 1987.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

An iron-age shrine in the north of Hayling Island was later developed into a Roman temple in the first century BC and was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island published in 1826.

This report had been taken at face value throughout the 19th century, and was perpetuated in Walter Scott's 1820 novel The Monastery.

Modern readers are cautioned to understand that Scott's aim was to create a compelling novel set in a historical period, not to provide a book of history.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by novelist Washington Irving, who was a close friend of the Gratz family.

Brown was then featured in Tony Scott's short film, Beat the Devil, in 2001.

Scott's algorithm was one of the first applications of a backtracking computer program.

Scott's phonautograph was intended purely for the visual study and analysis of the tracings.

Scott's next film was American Gangster, based on the story of real-life drug kingpin Frank Lucas.

In the closing decades of the 20th century, the legend was reassessed as attention focused on the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades ' lives, and the extent of Scott's personal culpability.