Then there was the car that came dressed in plaid: Al Gidding's 1929 Willys-Knight Model 66-B Plaidside Roadster.
Jonathan and Christopher Nolan's screenplay for The Dark Knight is a model of discipline in its attempt to infuse a pulp format with heavyweight contemporary concerns and real-world nuance.
Knight's business model was to match buyers and sellers of stocks more quickly and skillfully than its rivals could, hardly a business that is associated with firm-destroying risk.
The model is Knight's friend, the enamellist Ella Naper, and – partly because we see her body twice, once painted on the canvas within a canvas – she looks less like a nude and more like a naked woman.
Mr. Stratton writes, "He was a truant, a thief, a reformed juvenile delinquent, a great athlete, a record setter, a national hero, a role model, fallen knight, a scorned has-been and a respected gentleman".
His sinister voice and unnerving gaze have guaranteed Jeremy Irons a career playing nefarious characters, but does he dream of playing a hero - even a once-great medieval king who is ditched by his wife for a newer and better model of knight?
The star mentioned most often on Tuesday was not Ms. Thurman but David Hasselhoff, whose name was invoked several times in connection with KITT, the intelligent vehicle in the television show "Knight Rider" and a model of what the car of the future might be like.
Canseco's fiancee, model Leila Knight, told the Los Angeles Times that he was cleaning his gun in the kitchen when it fired.
At times Jones recalled R&B-soul divas Tina Turner and Gladys Knight, with the latter also referenced with a funked-up reading of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" modeled on Knight's hit version in a nod that felt drawn from a sense of musical sisterhood rather than facile name-checking.
Phyllis Fernbach Dear Diary: In helping prepare for a party at the Players Club, my fiancée and I were to transport a life-size standing model of a knight in shining armor from a shop on Long Island to the clubhouse on Gramercy Park.
Schulz takes as her model Don Quixote, the knight-errant who was wrong about almost everything.
