She was an influential patron to many of them, and a valued friend, who nevertheless attracted understandable mockery, due to her combination of eccentric attire with an aristocratic manner, extreme shyness and a deep religious faith that set her apart from her times.

In the influential 1982 film comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High the student, and surfer, Jeff Spicolli, Sean Penn, uses the greeting with the eccentric teacher Mr. Hand, Ray Walston, who had earlier made use of the greeting himself.

Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles ( pronounced ) ( 31 October 1902-29 January 1970 ), was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as " extraordinarily eccentric " and " amazingly perceptive ", wrote on one of his school reports, " Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays.

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

Prominent modern celebrities who attended Harrow include eccentric horse-racing pundit John McCririck, singer James Blunt and actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Elwes.

In his first mission, Brisco also meets Professor Albert Wickwire ( John Astin ), an eccentric scientist who returns to help many times during the series.

As her sickness advances and his inventor father ( John Turturro ) grows increasingly distant, the boy is sent to live with his two eccentric uncles ( Maury Chaykin and Michael Richards ).

A form of Fraticelli was also represented by Philip of Berbegni, a fanatical and eccentric Observant of Spain ( 1433 ), who attempted to establish a strict society de la Capuciola, but met vigorous opposition from John Capistran, who issued a dissertation against him.

In serious popular music, one might cite Virginia Astley ( From Gardens Where We Feel Secure ); Shriekback ( Big Night Music and subsequent albums up to 2007's Glory Bumps ); John Foxx ( Systems of Romance and The Garden ); and some have seen the early eccentric songs of Brian Eno ( such as " Julie With …" and " St Elmo's Fire "), and even his later sound-scapes, as neo-romantic in nature.

* John Brande Morris, Orientalist, eccentric and Roman Catholic priest

He was then placed under a Mr Whittle, an eccentric practitioner, the original of " Rawkins " in Albert Smith's Adventures of Mr Ledbury, and afterwards under Dr John Cockle ; but gradually he drifted into the artistic profession.

The genus was renamed by Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe, the eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, after himself Donisthorpea.

John Mytton ( 30 September 1796-29 March 1834 ) was a notable British eccentric and Regency rake.

* Richard Darwell, Madcap's Progress: the life of the eccentric Regency sportsman John Mytton.

William John Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland ( 12 September 1800 – 6 December 1879 ), styled Lord William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British aristocratic eccentric who preferred to live in seclusion.

The original strip, originated by Dave Donaldson, written by Steve Bright and mostly drawn by John Geering until his death in 1999, is essentially a parody of Superman with shades of Captain Marvel and his British twin, Marvelman and occasionally other Silver Age characters, while also combining comic slapstick with a heavy dose of eccentric British humour similar to Alan Moore's contemporary work on Captain Britain.

In 1996, she played opposite John Travolta, portraying the eccentric rooming house owner, Pansy Milbank in Nora Ephron's hit Michael.

Faced with evidence that a majority of Tories were unhappy with the increasingly eccentric and autocratic policies of their leader John Diefenbaker, Camp eventually led a grassroots upsurgence within the party for a leadership review.

Leach's nomenclature was a little eccentric – he named twenty-seven species after his friend John Cranch, who had collected the species in Africa and later died on HMS Congo.

He also made a few recordings, the most popular being " Old Rivers " about an eccentric but much-beloved farmer ; it was released as a single in 1962 by Liberty Records with " The Epic Ride Of John H. Glenn " on the flip side, and peaked at number 5 in the U. S. Billboard charts.

For television he is best known for the roles of the eccentric lawyer John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal, as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of action-thriller 24, Alan Birch in the Medical drama Chicago Hope, and as physicist Dr. Larry Fleinhardt on the CBS crime drama NUMB3RS.

MacNicol is known by television viewers for his Ally McBeal performance as eccentric attorney John Cage, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001.

Frees also provided the voice of the eccentric billionaire John Beresford Tipton, always seated in his chair with his back to the viewer while talking to his employee Michael Anthony ( fellow voice-artist Marvin Miller ), on the dramatic series The Millionaire.

MXC is personified as a game show that is hosted by the eccentric characters Vic Romano ( Vic Wilson ) and Kenny Blankenship ( Chris Darga ), along with the field marshal Captain Tenneal ( John Cervenka ) and the field reporter Guy LeDouche ( John Cervenka ).

During this phase, Stella's relationship with Dee was more prominent and actor Mills Watson joined the cast as Stella's eccentric uncle, Winslow Homer Smith.

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

Bowersock in particular ), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism.

Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.

Guenon also wrote that Blavatsky had borrowed passages taken from a translation of extracts from the Kanjur and Tanjur published in 1836 in the twentieth volume of the Asiatic Researchers of Calcutta by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma an eccentric orientalist.

Escorting her through the forest towards the final brook-crossing, the Knight recites a long poem of his own composition, and repeatedly falls off his horse — his clumsiness is a reference to the " eccentric " L-shaped movements of chess knights, and may also be interpreted as a self-deprecating joke about Lewis Carroll's own physical awkwardness and stammering in real life.

Heaviside's eccentric character and setting himself apart from the establishment may also have played a part in their ignoring of him.

This development also led to the introduction of an important supporting character, Diet Smith, an eccentric industrialist who financed the development of this equipment.

Triton's eccentric post-capture orbit would have also resulted in tidal heating of the moon's interior.

Newton also underlined his criticism of the vortex theory of planetary motions, of Descartes, pointing to its incompatibility with the highly eccentric orbits of comets, which carry them " through all parts of the heavens indifferently ".

Brown was also a bon viveur, amateur musician and genuine British eccentric.

However, Antiochus also tried to interact with common people, by appearing in the public bath houses and applying for municipal offices, and his often eccentric behavior and capricious actions led some of his contemporaries to call him Epimanes (" The Mad One "), a word play on his title Epiphanes.

He also has many eccentric relatives including slightly-addled Uncle Herman, or " Doc Jones ", a daffy and slightly pompous inventor whose creations usually wreak havoc on Jughead and / or his friends and his lookalike younger cousin, Souphead.

These eccentric behavior patterns are also described in Gaines ' biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines, written by Mad writer Frank Jacobs and published in 1972 by Lyle Stuart, a longtime friend.

It is also the site of the Green Mansion, the estate of " Colonel " Edward Howland Robinson Green, a colorful character in his own right, who was son of the even more colorful and wildly eccentric Hetty Green, said to be the richest woman in the world in her time, who is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the " world's greatest miser ".

There is also an eccentric tip, where the nozzle at the end of the syringe is not in the centre of the syringe but at the side.

The series was also parodied on The Fast Show, with Jazz Club, hosted by the eccentric ( but quiet ) Louis Balfour ( a play on Bob Harris ).

As a public figure, Agnelli was also known worldwide for his impeccable, slightly eccentric fashion sense, which has influenced both Italian and international men ’ s fashion.

Arthur is also the principal character of an alternative history novel by the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe (' Baron Corvo '), entitled Hubert's Arthur, posthumously published by A. J.

However, they may also help perfect strangers or fight various eccentric villains in exotic locations of their own volition if the cause fits their values ; " ghosts " from their Network past also emerge to haunt them from time to time.

It also explains why eccentric mitral regurgitation jets are attracted and dispersed along adjacent left atrial wall surfaces ( so called " wall-hugging jets " as seen on echocardiographic color-doppler interrogation ).

Pontypridd was also home to the eccentric Dr. William Price who performed the first modern cremation.