On a refueling stop in Jakarta, Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus are on their way to Sydney when they unexpectedly meet their old friend Piotr Skut ( first encountered in The Red Sea Sharks ), now the chief pilot for eccentric millionaire Laszlo Carreidas.

He lives in Tokyo with his twin sister Hokuto, an exuberant girl whose chief occupations are to design eccentric clothing for herself and her brother, and to egg on their mutual friend Seishirō Sakurazuka, a kindly, 25-year-old veterinarian, when he declares his love for Subaru.

The crew consisted of the camp, alcohol-loving, narcissistic and bitchy steward, Sebastian ; his sex-obsessed colleague Steve ; their up-tight, antagonistic chief stewardess, Shona Spurtle ; and the eccentric pilot, Captain Hilary Duff.

The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.

Strips often depict Knipl's chance encounters with obscure, marginal businesses ( e. g. a company that distributes newspaper weights to newsstands ), eccentric hobbyists, and enigmatic details of the urban landscape.

However, the continued love of the Cohen family and the company of the eccentric Taylor Townsend guide him back to the light.

The Lyric Theatre is also the base of the children's theatre company, Stuff and Nonsense who rehearse, make puppets and perform their eccentric, family-friendly shows there throughout the year.

: The brilliant, if quite eccentric, scientist who created a prototype android with funding from his wife's company.

Seth Brundle ( Jeff Goldblum ), a brilliant but eccentric scientist, meets Veronica Quaife ( Geena Davis ), a journalist for Particle magazine, at a meet-the-press event held by Bartok Science Industries, the company that provides funding for Brundle's work.

He joined Sam Peckinpah's famous stock company in 1965's Major Dundee as a professional horse thief, and appeared subsequently in that director's The Wild Bunch, as a prohibitionist minister who gets his flock shot up by the title outlaws in the film's infamous opening scene, Junior Bonner, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Getaway, and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, as an aging, eccentric outlaw friend of Billy's.

Mamlakat is an aspiring actress, daughter of an eccentric father, and sister to a mad brother, who falls for the lies of an actor in a theater company that passes through her village.

In December 2008 it was revealed that SuperEgo Industries was the company behind WonderGlen, a comedy website purporting to be the company intranet for an eccentric group of Los Angeles TV and film producers.

After a personal bankruptcy Nordenfelt was forced out of the Nordenfelt-Maxim company in 1890 and left England for France, where his new company, Société Nordenfelt, designed the eccentric screw breech used on the French 75.

He meets the eccentric company owner, Burnbridge Waters ( Vincent Price ), for the job interview.

His outgoing and eccentric personality included a fascination with crows, leading a friend to name his company " Caw Networks ".

He was encountered initially by Gotrek and Felix in Shamanslayer, posing as " Hans the Hermit ", an eccentric tomb robber who showed them a way to reach Urslak Cripplehorn undetected.

This degenerate RPE causes foveal hypoplasia ( a failure in the development of normal foveae ), which results in eccentric fixation and lower visual acuity, and often a minor level of strabismus.

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

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.

Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( 1988 ), opposite Lemmon, and the Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder – starring comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 ).

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ( 2000 ), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden.

The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as an exalted, eccentric style of Aramaic, which was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period ( 539 BCE – 70 CE ), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.

His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).

Supergiant X-ray binaries ( SGXBs ) are HMXBs in which the compact objects orbit massive companions with orbital periods of a few days ( 3 – 15 d ), and in circular ( or slightly eccentric ) orbits.

In 1969 she appeared in Alan J. Pakula's first feature film, The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 ), as “ Pookie Adams ”, a needy, eccentric teenager.

He portrayed eccentric characters in guest appearances on such TV shows as Batman ( where he played The Archer's henchman Crier Tuck ), Land of the Giants, Dragnet 1967, and The Monkees.

When Bates dropped out through illness in 1976 after two series, the role of the third man of the trio was filled in various years up to the 30th series by the quirky war veteran, Foggy Dewhirst ( Brian Wilde ), the eccentric inventor, Seymour Uttherthwaite ( Michael Aldridge ), and former police officer Truly Truelove ( Frank Thornton ).

The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric — and often ironic — celebrations of traditional English culture and living: " Village Green " ( 1966 ), " Afternoon Tea " and " Autumn Almanac " ( both 1967 ), " The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains " ( 1968 ), " Victoria " ( 1969 ), " Have a Cuppa Tea " ( 1971 ) and " Cricket " ( 1973 ).

* Jimmy James ( Stephen Root ), the station's eccentric, extroverted, playful billionaire owner.

* Albert Mussey Johnson, ( 1872 – 1948 ), born in Oberlin, eccentric multi-millionaire industrialist who is known best for constructing Scotty's Castle in what is now Death Valley National Park.

* Robert Sheffey ( 1820 – 1902 ), eccentric Methodist circuit-rider and evangelist, grew to maturity in Abingdon.

Milton Teagle Simmons ( born July 12, 1948 ), known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American former actor and now fitness personality, who promotes weight-loss programs, prominently through his Sweatin ' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and is known for his eccentric, outgoing and frequently flamboyant personality.

Also in the building is Brian Topp ( Mark Heap ), an eccentric conceptual artist who lives and works on his various pieces in the ground floor flat.

Elisabeth was an emotionally complex woman, and perhaps due to the melancholy and eccentricity that was considered a given characteristic of her Wittelsbach lineage ( the best-known member of the family being her favorite cousin, the eccentric Ludwig II of Bavaria ), she was interested in the treatment of the mentally ill.

Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps ( 1880 – 1953 ), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne ( 1889 – 1955 ), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire.

As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.

His eccentric and confrontational style did not earn him many friends and he had a difficult time finding work after his studies ended.

He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname " Moon the Loon ".

Moon's legacy, as a member of The Who, as a solo artist, and as an eccentric personality, continues to garner awards and praise, including a Rolling Stone readers ' pick placing him in second place of the magazine's " best drummers of all time " in 2011, nearly 35 years after his death.

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

But from that moment on, the ever eccentric Mühlegg insisted on taking a flask of holy water with him at all times, and trusting only his Portuguese cleaning woman / chaperone Justina Agostino.

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

She describes him as " painfully shy, completely enigmatic and more eccentric ... than anyone had ever met.

However, he tired of having people pester him for money, and he became reclusive and eccentric.

Horne remained the genial and unflappable focal figure, and the writers invented a new lot of eccentric characters to revolve round him.

Roy Jenkins noted that Wilson's retirement " was disfigured by his, at best, eccentric resignation honours list, which gave peerages or knighthoods to some adventurous business gentlemen, several of whom were close neither to him nor to the Labour Party.

This eccentric aunt agrees to raise him, despite Mr Murdstone's attempt to regain David's custody.

She was famous for being irascible, garrulous, eccentric and outspoken, but the marriage, to all appearances, was essentially happy and she was a great source of inspiration to him.

While living in Aspen, Bayer had a chance meeting with the eccentric oilman, outdoorsman and ( to those who knew him ) visionary ecologist, Robert O. Anderson.

Since their introduction, Koopa Troopas have become the iconic enemy of the Mario franchise, often referenced in popular culture relating to the series: in 2007's The Simpsons Game, a Koopa Troopa appears as the apparent bride of the eccentric geek Professor Frink after Bart and Lisa rescue him from Donkey Kong in a parody of the popular arcade game.

* Montague Jetson, the kindly but eccentric grandfather of George Jetson who constantly annoys the cop every time he meets him — Howard Morris ; after Morris ' death: Dan Castellaneta

Students who studied under Childe often remarked that he was a kindly eccentric, but had a great deal of fondness for him, leading them to commission a bust of him from Marjorie Maitland-Howard.

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.

The song earned him a five album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric.

As the Fourth Doctor, his eccentric style of dress and speech ( particularly his trademark long scarf and fondness for jelly babies ) made him an immediately recognisable figure, and he quickly caught the viewing public's imagination.

An eccentric judge named Rayford ( Jack Warden ), who has a friendly relationship with Kirkland, takes him for a hair-raising ride in his personal Bell 47 helicopter over the harbor and Fort McHenry, laughing as he tests how far they can possibly go without running out of fuel, while Arthur, his terrified passenger, begs him to land the helicopter immediately.

He was awarded his nickname Rio as teenager from an eccentric artist friend of the family who invented the name " Rio de Galaxis " for him in an " intergalactic youth ordination ".