According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

* He also has appeared as a playable character in X-Men Legends voiced by Darren Scott.

Examples include Susan Sarandon's suggestions that the character of Louise pack shoes in plastic bags in one scene of Thelma & Louise, and another where her character exchanges jewelry for a hat and other items — and Tim Robbins's collaboration with Scott and Susan Sarandon to rework the final scene with a more upbeat ending.

Theron worked alongside the writers and Scott to give more depth to her character during filming.

From a previously unassailable position, Scott became a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character.

Later in the episode, the character Dave Nelson ( Dave Foley ) hires an actor to play Scott Adams in a trick to bring Matthew back to work at the station.

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

He was also adapted into a character in Orson Scott Card's alternate history series The Tales of Alvin Maker ; he is presented as a crude but deeply witty and insightful man.

* Squat, the alternate name of the titular character in Scott Adams ' comic Plop: The Hairless Elbonian

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the " View Askewniverse ", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.

She began using the name " Sigourney Weaver " in 1963 after a minor character ( Sigourney Howard ) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

The first-person narrator may be the principal character or one who closely observes the principal character ( see Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each narrated by a minor character ).

Stevens also produced a series of audio dramas called Kaldor City, created by Chris Boucher, which link the Blake's 7 universe into Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death through the character Carnell ( Scott Fredericks ), whom Boucher created for the Blake's 7 episode Weapon.

* Ridley Scott also paid homage after the final credits of American Gangster when Denzel Washington's character in a darkened bar fires a gun into the camera.

Stephen King's novel Lisey's Story makes repeated references to The Last Picture Show as main character Scott Landon frequently watches the film throughout the novel during flashbacks.

One repeated example comes from main character Michael Scott who often deploys the catch-phrase " that's what she said " after another character's innocent statement, to turn it retroactively into a sexual pun.

James Montgomery " Jimmy " Doohan ( ; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005 ) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery " Scotty " Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.

According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves ( born March 21, 1986 ), at the premiere of Pale Rider.

According to the New York Times reviewer, " Nowadays Ms. LuPone generates more raw excitement than any other performer on the Broadway and cabaret axis, with the possible exception of Liza Minnelli .... And her brilliant show, conceived and directed by her longtime collaborator, Scott Wittman, deserves many lives, perhaps even a Broadway run in an expanded edition.

Originally conceived as a project called Control Freak, the album's first version was actually scheduled for a mid-2005 release and involving main production by Scott Storch, Dr. Dre, Lil Jon, Rockwilder and songwriter Sean Garrett.

Eternal Champions is a 2D fighting game originally conceived by Scott Berfield, produced by Mike Latham for Sega of America and was developed by the Sega Interactive Development Division.

Claremont had conceived Madelyne as a device to write Scott Summers out of the X-Men and have him retire " happily ever after " with Madelyne and their child.

Mr Sinister was one of the main villains of " X-Men: The End ", blackmailing Gambit into kidnapping the children of Scott Summers and Emma Frost as well as his own children that he conceived with Rogue.

Cornerhouse was conceived by the Greater Manchester Visual Arts Trust, chaired by Sir Bob Scott.

In Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, Ender is only allowed to be conceived because of a special government exception due to his parent's high intelligence and the extraordinary performance of his siblings.

The strathspey was originally conceived for the fiddle, using a peculiar bowing technique that would produce its characteristic " scotch-snap " rhythm ; many newer strathspeys were written in the 18th and 19th centuries by composers such as William Marshall and James Scott Skinner, who utilised the full range of the fiddle to produce many memorable tunes.

Since 2011 Jones has starred in Scott & Bailey as DC Rachel Bailey, with the television series being an original idea conceived by Jones herself and fellow actress Sally Lindsay.

Scott himself was told as a child that he was artificially conceived in a laboratory.

She and her second husband, Scott, said that they decided to have children together because Scott had not had any children in his previous marriage, and because they did not want their other son, Ian, born late 2002, also conceived through IVF, to grow up an only child.

Intuit was conceived by Scott Cook, whose prior work at Procter & Gamble helped him realize that personal computers would lend themselves as replacements for paper-and-pencil based personal accounting.

It was written from a screenplay conceived by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel.

It was originally conceived in 1986 as a vehicle for IMG client Scott Hamilton, who had been released from his contract with Ice Capades, after being told that male skaters do not sell tickets.

Though in the present she identifies as a lesbian, Farbissina conceived her son Scott with Dr.

Scott Taylor's Canadian military magazine, Esprit de Corps, was first conceived of as an in-flight magazine for the Canadian Air Force, after Scott Taylor and his with Katherine Taylor discovered that Canadian Air Force planes lacked any on-board entertainment system or reading material.

Most of the material was improvised based on loose structural ideas that were conceived by sousaphonist Scott Moore, and designed to allow for maximum improvisation and spontanaeity.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

The city with the most votes from Scott County citizens in the February 1838 election would become the county seat.

Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield.

Even after the director was persuaded to keep the scene intact, George C. Scott refused to do it, as he believed it would overshadow the rest of his performance.

Both the major literary figures of the following century, Robert Burns and Walter Scott, would be highly influenced by the Ossian cycle.

Scott, who was coming off of a 5 – 11 season, had found his new pitch and would become one of Houston's most celebrated hurlers.

Scott would finish the season with an 18 – 10 record and a Cy Young Award.

Needing a win to get to Mike Scott ( who had been dominant in the series ) in Game 7, the Astros jumped off to a 3 – 0 lead in the first inning but neither team would score again until the 9th inning.

However, without Grimthorpe's money, it seems reasonable to assume that the Abbey Church would now almost certainly be a ruin, like many other former monastic churches, despite the work performed under Sir George Gilbert Scott in the years 1860 to 1877.

On the basis of these photographs, British naturalist Peter Scott announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx ( Greek for " The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin ").

Scott intended that this would enable Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife.

In 1925, Australian Jack Scott first bowled a form of bodyline in a state match for New South Wales, but his captain Herbie Collins disliked it and would not let him use it again when he was captain.

On May 2, 2012 it was announced that four players who played for the team between 2009 and 2011 would receive suspensions for their alleged participation in " Bountygate ": Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma ( 16 games ), Saints defensive lineman Will Smith ( 4 games ), former Saints / current Browns linebacker Scott Fujita ( 3 games ), and former Saints / current Packers defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove ( 8 games ).

After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native North East England, eventually settling in Teesside ( whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner ).

Scott would not return to an Alien-related project for three more decades, when he directed Prometheus.

Earlier ( in 2009 ) Scott had stated that he would direct a film adaptation of the Red Riding trilogy.

Scott admitted feeling " stunned and truly humbled " after the ceremony, saying, " As a boy growing up in South Shields, I could never have imagined that I would receive such a special recognition.

In later years, when Scott was establishing his naval career, the family would suffer serious financial misfortune, but his early childhood years were spent in comfort.

Promotion, and the extra income this would bring, now became a matter of considerable concern to Scott.

Scott did not know that he would be in a race until he received Amundsen's telegram in Melbourne, in October 1910.

Scott had earlier outlined his plans for the southern journey to the entire shore party, without being specific about precise roles – no one knew who would form the final polar team.

By 4 January 1912, the last two four-man groups had reached 87 ° 34 ′ S. Scott announced his decision: five men ( Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans ) would go forward, the other three ( Teddy Evans, William Lashly and Tom Crean ) would return.