He has dabbled in fashion and entertainment and business, but nothing has captivated him quite like being an athlete.
Ever since Dickey read "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway as an 11th grader in Tennessee, the snow-capped mountain on the border of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa has captivated him.
For Mister Cartoon, 40, who has done two previous tattoo sessions at the hotel in the last year, the promotions offer a chance to visit New York — a place that has captivated him since he saw Fab 5 Freddy painting graffiti in the music video for the Blondie song "Rapture" — and to practice his art in a nicer setting.
For the first time, Ryan had the chance to pursue some of the more daring libertarian ideas that had captivated him.
Stefan Sage, another library trustee, said that while he was "not particularly" a Twain fan, "Eve's Diary" had captivated him.
BUT for a security alert in Kabul, where Afghans are struggling to hammer out a constitution, Barry Rosen would once again be leaving his family behind and putting himself in harm's way, all for the love of a region, a language, a literature and a religion that have captivated him for half his lifetime.
A comparison of his "Wharves, Saint-Sever, Rouen" (1896) and Monet's cathedrals is especially revealing: Pissarro stayed in Monet's former room overlooking the Pont Boieldieu, but it was the locale's "great commotion of carriages, strollers, stevedores, boats, smoke, haze in the distance, full of life and movement," not only its atmospheric sheen, that seems to have captivated him.
He did much reading, mainly Arctic history and classical literature, and thought about a possible return visit to Peru, a country which had captivated him during the Collingwood voyage.
The "dancing pig in Cuban heels", as one newspaper critic called him, has captivated viewers for 10 weekends as he stumbled his way through routines.
Since the release of Less Than Zero in 1977 and the subsequent album My Aim Is True, Costello's layered wordplay over an expanding range of musical styles has captivated critics and transformed him into a cult favourite both here and in the US.
