Hollywood's quirkiest stars can help get extra butts in seats (and in town buying tourist knick-knacks), as can the promise of seeing a major new release before anyone else can.
Still he thinks he might have a knack as "I'm such an analytical person".
The recipe is a blueprint but also a red herring, a way to do something and a false summing up of a living process that can be handed on only by experience, a knack posing as a knowledge.
And their religion was a set of skills, rather than a list of unalterable teachings — a "knack," as the Taoists have it, for navigating the mysteries of human existence.
The collection also runs to disturbingly banal knick-knacks such as a wooden plaque bearing the image of flying ducks, which turns out to be the first prize for a wild-fowl hunting competition organised by the commander of Dachau.
Websites such as niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com reimagined him as everyone from Batgirl to Hugo Chávez, while his gaudy taste in knick-knacks became as pilloried as Michael Jackson's, the latest being a nine-foot pyramid tomb.
Fashion has an uncanny knack for acting as a bellwether of changing times.
Lassnig was born in the rural Austrian state of Carinthia in 1919, and displayed a knack for drawing as a young girl.
In a recent phone interview Mr. Iannucci described Mr. Morris's knack for confrontation as a "natural tendency to head towards the fire".
