Stew said it was inspired by a panic-stricken drive across Los Angeles at 3 a.m. while under the influence in which he confused a policeman with the anchorman of the song's title.
That could explain his annoyance with sophisticated interpretations of his films, his elusiveness, the smokescreen of inventions or lies ("I'm a great liar -- my truth is invented" ) with which he confused those who wanted to write about him.
Cervantes' peculiar skill lies in the way in which he delightfully confuses his own readers by writing about enchanted windmills and wineskins, magic helmets and barbers' basins.
One scene she spotlights in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, published in 1906, sees a girl giving a tearful Peter her handkerchief, which he is confused by.
Mark Harrington, an analyst at J. P. Morgan Chase, said Mr. Fourtou was "intentionally very vague about strategy," which he said, "confused people and angered some".
He remembers one gathering at which attendees shared their favorite Wikipedia April Fools' jokes, including Knipel's, in which he deliberately confused George Washington, the president, with George Washington, the inventor of an instant coffee process.
In two paintings that purport to be about the birth of the Medusa, he ventures into dark wood of myth, which he has confused with the spooky shrubbery of The Blair Witch Project.
