On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

*" Exit Through The Gift Shop " ( 2010 ) is a documentary produced by the notorious artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art.

Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.

It was based on the true story of Frank Lee Morris who, along with John and Clarence Anglin, escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison in 1962.

The player reprises the role of John Blade, and the story picks up after the conclusion of the main game, pitting the player against Gianni Manero, a notorious crime boss looking to take over Freeport city.

Three of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present: Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who were the direct ancestors of the Tudors, Stuarts, and the modern British royal family ; Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations ; and The Winthrop Woman about the notorious Elizabeth Fones, niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

) The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.

Wong's fourth movie, Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), released between Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, applied his approach to a star-studded wuxia ( martial arts swordplay ) story ; the desert shoot in Mainland China dragged on for over a year and resulted in one of contemporary Hong Kong cinema's most notorious commercial disasters.

* In the film Big Fat Liar, the story producer Marty Wolf ( a notorious and proud liar himself ) steals from student Jason Shepard, tells of a character whose lies become out of control to the point where each lie he tells causes him to grow in size.

The sketch is clearly inspired by the real-life story of notorious London gangsters the Kray twins, although the Piranhas ' methods seem to resemble more closely those used by the rival the Richardson Gang and their associate " Mad " Frankie Fraser.

Tells the story of notorious ladies ' man Manuel, and his affair with beautiful 14-year-old Pipo, and its effect on his friendship with repressed misanthrope Soledad.

That issue was most notorious for Crumb's satirical story Joe Blow, depicting an incestuous all-American nuclear family whose motto was " the family that lays together, stays together.

This apocryphal story was inspired by the mention in " The Adventure of Black Peter " of Holmes's " arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London.

The Clementine literature polemicizes against Paul and his sect, for example, by applying the name of the notorious Samaritan sorcerer Simon Magus ( see ) as a nickname for Paul ; some scholars suppose that Luke, the author of The Acts of the Apostles, took the story of Simon Magus from the Clementines.

The film follows the story of nine Iraqi businessmen who were arrested in 1995 by Saddam Hussein's regime which was notorious for human rights abuses.

The character of Blaze is completely removed from the origin story, and Adam's rage is described as having resulted from the conquering of Kahndaq ( and the murder of his wife and children ) at the hands of a magically powered supervillain named Ahk-ton ( whose powers resemble future hero Metamorpho ), who is working with the notorious DC immortal Vandal Savage.

The story of Adolf Hitler's visit to Liverpool has remained popular, however, and was the subject of Beryl Bainbridge's 1978 novel Young Adolf and Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's notorious 1989 comic The New Adventures of Hitler.

In " The Adventure of Black Peter ", an original Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes story from 1904, Watson mentions that his companion recently arrested " Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London "; this Wilson is not related to the titular character of Meyer's novel.

Three stories put Vanity Fair on the map: Harry Benson's cover shoot of Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing in the White House ; Helmut Newton's notorious portrait of accused murderer Claus von Bulow in his leathers with his mistress Andrea Reynolds with reporting by Dominick Dunne, and Brown's own cover story on Princess Diana in October 1985 titled The Mouse that Roared.

Other cases, especially in criminal law, have become known under names emphasising the peculiar story that made them notorious, such as the Katzenkönigfall or the Gubener Verfolgungsfall.

The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his childhood.

The story appears in The Newgate Calendar, a crime catalogue of the notorious Newgate Prison in London.

Her nickname appears as a store name in the story " Christmas in Duckburg ", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney ’ s Christmas Parade # 9, published in 1958.

The name of Ford's project, and the serial numbers dispel the story that " GT40 " was " only a nickname.

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.

It tells the story of a young pool hustler, Edward " Fast Eddie " Felson, who challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats ( a fictional character, not to be confused with Rudolf " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, who later adopted the nickname as his own ).

According to this story, he gained the nickname " Upsy " because he was a great mountain climber.

Originally titled Pearl, after Joplin's nickname, and the title of her last album, it was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.

Among his many pupils in Dresden was Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, the keyboardist whose name is erroneously enshrined in the popular nickname given to J. S. Bach's 1742 publication, “ Aria with Diverse Variations ”— that is, “ The Goldberg Variations .” The scholar Peter Williams has discredited the story linking the work to Goldberg, stating that J. S. Bach wrote the work for the Russian Ambassador Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, who would ask his employee, Goldberg, to play variations for him to ward off insomnia.

Prodosh Chandra Mitter, popularly known by his nickname Feluda, first appeared in the eponymous short story Feludar Goyendagiri ( Feluda's Investigation ) in 1965.

Also in 1947, Hayworth was featured in a Life cover story by Winthrop Sargeant, which led to her nickname as " The " Love Goddess ".

One story states that Adonis received this nickname from a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl who was dating him.

* Moonrakers, the story of how the inhabitants of Wiltshire got their nickname

On Colbert's own show The Colbert Report, he has made numerous character breaks when performing alone, giggling over things such as his own suggestion of " Filliam H. Muffman " as a tabloid nickname for the relationship of William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman ; a news story about a giant inflatable dog turd that escaped its moorings and wrought destruction in England ; and various prop malfunctions, including a condom he blew up and then accidentally popped and a bottle of Manischewitz spilled behind his " news " desk.

Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an Anglo-African boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the nickname of Peekay.

With Lestat still in slumber after his adventures in Memnoch the Devil, the vampire coven is united around the " brat prince " ( a nickname for Lestat given by Marius ), and the vampire David Talbot takes the opportunity to request that Armand tell David his life story.

The title of the mini-series is, in the story, the nickname of a fictional Bangkok prison in which the protagonist is imprisoned.

The story of how he got the nickname " Symphony " Sid has been told in numerous ways.

Though Gay Falcon was the character's name in the short story, in the film he was renamed Gay Lawrence, so that The Falcon became a nickname, comparable to The Saint.

In The Annals, Tacitus tells the story of one known as ' Cedo Alteram ' - which roughly translates to ' Gimme Another ': " The mutinous soldiers thrust out the tribunes and the camp-prefect ; they plundered the baggage of the fugitives, and then killed a centurion, Lucilius, to whom, with soldier's humour, they had given the nickname ' Gimme Another ', because when he had broken one vine-stick across a soldier's back, he would call in a loud voice for another ... and another.

It was here that he gained the nickname " Bull Head " because of a story about a musket ball that bounced off his head during the battle.

Cinderella Man is a 2005 American drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story.