Set during the Civil War, the musical follows Dolly Bloomer, a character based on Amelia Bloomer, an early feminist and publisher of abolitionist material, and her fictitious niece, whose father is a prominent manufacturer of hoop skirts.
Directed by first-time film-maker Benh Zeitlin, who set up a production company in the town of Montegut, Louisiana and recruited his cast from the local community, Beasts of the Southern Wild centres on six-year-old Hushpuppy and her father, Wink, who live in a fictitious bayou community known as "the Bathtub" which is under constant threat from rising waters.
The inner workings of the fictitious Treadstone organization were inspired by Liman's father's job in the National Security Agency NSAA) under Ronald Reagan.
McCain's associations with Duke Tully, who by now had been disgraced for having concocted a fictitious military record, as well as revelations of father-in-law Jim Hensley's past brushes with the law, became campaign issues.
As the star of his latest film, Dern plays a demented father obsessed with redeeming the promise of fictitious lottery winnings received in a junk mailing.
Groening has said that he named it after Springfield, Oregon, and the fictitious Springfield which was the setting of the series Father Knows Best.
Anthony Camp, Director of Research at the Society of Genealogists, has dismissed the claims that George IV was the father of Ord, Hervey, Hampshire and Candy as fictitious.
Even though the cult comedy series, Father Ted, about three hapless priests living on the fictitious Craggy Island filmed its last episode in 1998, such was the strength of its fan-base that it gave rise to one of the country's zaniest get-togethers, Tedfest.
In the midst of fictitious Beyonce baby watch rumors comes news that the singer's father and record executive Mathew Knowles is set to resume his signature, The Recording Industry, course during this year's Spring semester at Texas Southern University's School of Communication.
