| Van Helsing, played zealously by Peter Cushing, is no longer the elderly savant typified by Edward Van Sloan in Browning's film. |
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| But there's no real-life pianist savant here, no cutesy romance, no saving grace. |
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| Beeckman was a savant with a wide range of scientific interests, and his influence on the younger man was considerable. |
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| She was the least savant of the group, according to her tattered footwear, and her lackey hair job tailed the backwoods hillbilly aura about her. |
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| His rare talent means Joshua has been termed an art savant, a name given to someone who is gifted in a certain area. |
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| He is a man possessed by his calling, a savant given to seeking refuge in his own mind from the slings and arrows of life in the 16th century. |
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| The character is a form of idiot savant who combines the disability with the compensating special powers. |
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| Whatever his motives, North's crusade has made him the idiot savant of big business. |
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| The knee-jerk reaction is to write him off as an idiot savant, a working-class hero with a world-class haircut who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. |
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| She may be illiterate and vapid, but next to him, she's a regular idiot savant marketing genius who cashed in on her B-list celebrity the moment it was about to expire. |
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| Internet savant Aaron Swartz was found dead in his New York apartment on Friday from an apparent suicide. |
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| But his success meant that life imitated art, and he emerged as a business savant. |
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| Edmonton Journal sports writer and Oiler savant, David Staples, was also there. |
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| Normally a fashion savant, Lopez goofed with a too-sexy bodysuit at the American Music Awards last night. |
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| In his former life as UK garage savant the Streets, Skinner forged a new way of being a pop star, breaking down the barriers between performer and producer. |
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| One of her grandchildren is Derek Paravicini, who is a musical prodigy and autistic savant. |
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| Cortical hyperconnectivity has been associated with atypical perceptual abilities such as synesthesia and savant skills in autism. |
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| Padgett is one of those rare individuals having savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia. |
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| He may be an idiot savant when it comes to criminal procedure, or he may just be an idiot. |
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| Jack Smith was to Republic Pictures what an idiot savant is to square roots. |
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| Wendy Williams, a radio D. J. who last week began a four-city tryout as the host of her own daytime talk show on Fox, is a real-life scandalmonger, the kind of beauty-salon savant who wishes famous people the worst. |
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| A million miles away from the artificial collages driven by the world music business, Bazar savant, with its timeless dimension, affirms Lo'Jo's sincerity and originality. |
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| A MOVING insight into the world of the idiot savant when Tom Cruise virtually kidnaps his autistic brother Dustin Hoffman in a bid to con out of his legacy. |
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| But the evening's star was headline act Keith Carter and his fantastic scally boy character Nige, the funniest dole-claiming, dope-smoking idiot savant I've ever seen. |
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| The event will feature George Widener, the gifted autistic savant, genius and calendar artist and also 'Anna' who is equally known for his passion to help the underprivileged. |
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| At the end of this section, a brief comparison is made with two other abecedaria, one created by the Virasaiva saint Siddharama, the other by the savant John Wilkins. |
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| We all know Bush isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but it's great fun to cut footage to make him look like Rainman's idiot savant, without the savant bit. |
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| Georgian Theatre frequenters Idiot Savant return with their annual Christmas Pageant on Friday. |
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| Adom, from Atlanta, are performing at the Nag's as part of their tour to promote their LP Idiot Savant. |
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| Opening will be The Golden Virgins, Teesside's Idiot Savant and relative newcomers to the scene This Band, mixing classic rock 'n' roll with an exciting contemporary edge. |
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