However, a more recent school of thought, led by Francisco Rico, rejects Parker's view, contending instead that the protagonist, Pablos, is a highly unrealistic character, simply a means for Quevedo to launch classist, racist and sexist attacks.

John Allen Nelson's character Mike Clary in the episode ( who is dating Parker's ex ), is from Lima, Ohio.

Selleck appeared in a recurring role on the acclaimed ABC drama Boston Legal as Ivan Tiggs — the troubled ex-husband of Shirley Schmidt ( Candice Bergen )— and as novelist Robert B. Parker's character Jesse Stone in several CBS made-for-TV movies, earning a 2007 Emmy nomination for Jesse Stone: Sea Change.

According to Brian Gougherty, the cosmo was further popularized among young women by its frequent mention on the television program Sex and the City, where Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie Bradshaw, commonly ordered the drink when out with her girlfriends.

His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, and oversexed Sullivan Groff in Weeds.

Still, the character design for young Parker was spot-on, combining the conceptualizations of both Steve Ditko ( right down to Ditko's design of Parker's primary-colored blue suit, yellow vest, white shirt, and red tie ) and John Romita, Sr., who served as art consultant for the show.

Others were based on his Alan Parker character, including Alan Parker, Alan Parker's 29 Minutes of Truth, and Alan Parker, Road Warrior.

* In the Sex and the City season 3 episode " Hot Child In The City ", Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie goes to get her shoe fixed on St. Mark's Place and ends up dating a man who works at a comic book store on the block.

While in 1966's The Handle Parker's age is explicitly stated to be 38, Parker is, essentially, an ageless character -- in the various Parker novels that were written and take place over a span of 45 years, Parker always appears to be somewhere around 40.

Patrick Warburton joined the cast in Season 2, playing a news anchor who dates Parker's character while trying to climb the ladder at GNB.

This episode highlights Hollywood's age-obsession and youthful looks for women: Collin Wilcox ( b. 1935 ) and Suzy Parker ( b. 1932 ) were only three years apart, yet Wilcox played the daughter of Parker's character.

* Cecil Parker's character is possibly a representation of General Richard Bourke, who served as the Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837.

The Moses character is Parker's favorite aspect of the episode.

It featured the SATC cast ( Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York ) as they listened intently as Carrie Bradshaw ( Parker's character on the series ) describes getting caught in the Matrix, which is shown in flashbacks and in the narration style heard usually on the TV series.

The Mr. Hankey character was based on an idea from Parker's childhood ; when Parker and Stone first conceived the South Park series, they wanted to make Mr. Hankey the lead character.

The Mr. Hankey character was based on an idea Trey Parker's father created when he was toilet-training Trey as a child.

* Vat 69 is the preferred drink of Joseph Burke, the main character in Robert B. Parker's novel Double Play.

Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses:

Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gribsby who pursues Jack to Hertfordshire ( present in Wilde's original draft, but cut at the behest of the play's first producer ).

Several local residents were watching the film being shot, when the filmmakers noticed Mabel Cavitt, a local school teacher, among the people gathered, who was then chosen to play Bonnie Parker's mother.

In one, brothers Joseph and Peter Parker, who settled in this area in 1667 and owned land bounded by Parker's Creek on the south and Little Silver Creek on the north, named their holdings " Little Silver " after their father's ( George Parker ) estate in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Those who did not want to settle in Oregon would float rafts to Parker's Landing, where a natural eddy would wash their barges and rafts up against the north bank.

By arriving at Parker's Landing, they could travel to the interior of what would become Washington State, avoiding the British at Fort Vancouver who would try to persuade them to settle elsewhere.

Of Nelson's captains, only Riou, who could not see Nelson's flagship, the Elephant, followed Parker's signal.

The main premise deals with the obsessive relationship between two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who murder Parker's mother.

To compensate for Parker's absence, the Sparks signed free agent Tina Thompson who was from former rival Houston Comets.

Baker also said the victim resembles Peter Parker's Uncle Ben, who had been murdered years before then.

Elaine Dundy called Parker a " master manipulator " who used Nick Adams and others in the entourage ( including Parker's own brother-in-law Bitsy Mott ) to counter possible subversion against him and control Elvis ' movements.

Parker studied for a time under Convers Francis, who preached at Parker's ordination.

On July 25, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort, Jones appeared at a benefit show for Muscular Dystrophy with a brand new version of Foreigner that included: Jeff Jacobs, Thom Gimbel, former Dokken bass player Jeff Pilson, current Black Country Communion drummer Jason Bonham ( son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who had also played with the brief Led Zeppelin reunions and his own band Bonham ) and Bonham singer Chaz West.

In July 2011, he played a private party for a Pittsburgh physician who has described himself as Parker's No. 1 fan.

Robert B. Parker's most popular mystery series features a Boston detective known only as Spenser who has had a series of three solid-liver German shorthairs, all named Pearl: one who stood with him during a bear charge in his rural youth ; one given to his girlfriend by her ex-husband ; and the third Pearl, to keep company with Spenser and his girlfriend in their late middle age.

She is also one of the few people who knows Peter Parker's identity as Spider-Man and grows interested in him.

She also appeared in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot, as Peter Parker's mother, who vanished under mysterious circumstances along with Peter's father.

Mac Gargan was the de facto leader of the Twelve while Osborn was in prison, and it was he who kidnapped Peter Parker's Aunt May and threatened to kill her if Spider-Man did not help Osborn escape from jail.

For students at Cambridge, who walk out to Mill Road across Parker's piece for an evening in the ' real world ', usually including a visit to one of Mill Road's selection of pubs, the lamp-post marks the end of the ' reality holiday ' as they walk back to central Cambridge-back into ' the bubble '.

In the divorce petition Longoria, who had taken Parker's last name, requested that her maiden name be restored.

" ( a takeoff of Dorothy Parker's " Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Most famous was Parker's " Roman cement ".

Among the wave of EC fanzines that followed, the best-known was Ron Parker's Hoo-Hah !.

Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.

The tipping point, however, was the runaway success of Walter A. Sheaffer's lever-filler, introduced in 1912, paralleled by Parker's roughly contemporary button-filler.

his first production at Her Majesty's was a dramatization of Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty.

This was revealed in the first season finale in which the alien Adam was aware of the timelines before and after Parker's Backstep ( Season 1, Episode 21 – " Lifeboat ").

Parker's youth was spent in a Philadelphia area orphanage.

Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found by police at an abandoned hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide ; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker.

This six-square-mile reservation was at Parker's Ferry near the mouth of the Meherrin River.

Jazzman Charlie Parker's " Relaxin ' at Camarillo ," written while he was detoxing from heroin addiction, is a tribute to the facility.

Stockton was featured in British author Tony Parker's 1989 book Bird, Kansas in which he transcribed tape recorded interviews with local residents.

Another rail station in Goffstown was located further to the west nearer to the town center, and a third was Parker's Station to the west of the town center, nearing the border with Weare.

Prior to this date, Private Halls of the University of Oxford took their name from their Master, and the Hall was known successively as Hunter-Blair's, and Parker's Hall.

The city was named for Judge John Parker, a lead surveyor of Lawrenceburg and founder / owner of Parker's Landing, the two villages which were combined to create Parker.

The new municipality was called " Parker " and was made up of the earlier villages of Parker's Landing ( on the Allegheny River ) and Lawrenceburg ( on the bluff above the river ).

Parker's Glen was completely destroyed by flooding of Hurricane Diane in August 1955.

On 28 June 1776, an incomplete fort was held by colonial forces under Colonel William Moultrie against an onslaught by the British under General Sir Henry Clinton's army sailing with Commodore Sir Peter Parker's men-of-war.

Dean Parker, owner of Parker's Market, was the first elected Mayor of Roy although Joseph Jensen had been Chairman of the Town Board prior to Roy being incorporated.

Just downstream from the handsome prairie where Lewis & Clark and David Thompson camped there was a natural boat landing that later became known as Parker's Landing and played an important role for settlers following the Oregon Trail.

In the alternate timeline known as MC2, May Parker's death in The Amazing Spider-Man # 400 was valid.