"I severely inspired it," Mangano says when asked about it, laughing as though she's keeping a secret, but not very well.
In 1930, Walt Disney was apparently inspired by it when he introduced for Mickey Mouse a canine companion named Pluto, although Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen could not confirm why the name was given.
If Mr. Shuler's art was not a mainstay of the world's most august museum collections, then that, to judge from the reaction it inspired when it towered over populist spaces like hotels and shopping centers, was precisely the point.
Directed by Robin Lefevre, with a dazzlingly in-sync cast led by Ian Holm, this is one of those uncommon revivals of a classic that gives you something like the same goose bumps it must have inspired when it opened.
Rainbows of light shimmer through Tiffany glass windows, and one can only imagine the excitement this room must have inspired when it was used as a library, complete with long, dark wood tables and green glass lampshades.
Loos was inspired to write it when she saw her friend, the literary critic and satirist HL Mencken, lose his cool when faced with a blond beauty.
She was inspired to write it when friends called an hour before dinner and baldly declared they were too exhausted to come.
Heppner wrote "Murphy's Law" as an ode to his favorite film, RoboCop; he was inspired to write it when he was writing songs in his room and saw his poster for the movie on the wall.
She told the BBC: "It inspired me when I head that the book was coming up for auction in New York, I knew immediately that it had to come back to Malton".
(An incalculable slice of her life's record went down with Grace, the Thames barge which inspired Offshore, when it sank in the early 1960s. Much of her written archive is in the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities in Austin, Texas, some of it sold by Fitzgerald in 1989, some later).
