The Bay Area's natural inclination toward the nontraditional and eccentric contributes to the success of these shows.
Wes Anderson's success and eccentric profile is becoming so mainstream-prominent, in fact, that he is attracting comedy on his own account – a gag from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey at the Globes, and even a crack in Sharon Horgan's TV comedy Catastrophe.
He acted in few films later in his career, but had notable success as an eccentric developer in Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel, and as a twinkly Kris Kringle in The Miracle of 34th Street.
Introducing "War Dances" earlier this month, Kate made reference to a recent Times interview with Sherman Alexie in which he expressed his desire to "reassert his eccentric self" after the mainstream success of his young-adult novel "The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian".
For more on McQueen, one can also take a look at Hilton Als's 1997 article "Gear," about the success of young eccentrics in the British fashion scene.
For 20 years zoological societies dismissed Aspinall as an eccentric collector but after the breeding successes of his zoos they started queuing up to learn from him.
The tension between art and commerce remains -- between the academy's urge to anoint box-office success and its desire to recognize more eccentric achievement.
Its meandering success can be credited both to the eccentric vision of the writers and to the cultish devotion of fans, who interact with the creator and cast members online and devour every extra clip on the season DVDs.
The delicate firing of the engine was an unqualified success and the craft went into a highly eccentric orbit round Venus, its altitude ranging from 330,000km above Venus to less than 400km.
Burton is the box office-friendly goth auteur who lent his eccentric, expressionistic style to more typical blockbuster aesthetics with great success in such early hits as "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," "Beetlejuice," and "Edward Scissorhands".
