Tim Lucas has noted that the film has "gone on to inspire legions of contemporary filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino."

(The most slippery tiles have inspired legions of lawsuits, however, and will have to be coated to make them less slick.)

Publishing industry executives have watched the case closely, with some fearing that a victory for Miss Collins may inspire legions of popular writers to seek a similar clause.

No matter that Mr. Truman was a Democrat; his unexpected win over Thomas Dewey in 1948 has inspired legions of underdogs.

Mr. Friedman has also inspired legions of loyalists.

There is no pouf this time to inspire legions of copyists in every country of the world.

It seems that the movie "Troy," featuring Brad Pitt, right, as the buff, scantily clad warrior Achilles, has inspired legions of readers to buy Homer's "Iliad."

Jeeper Creepers 2: "The kind of limp horror retread whose only saving grace may be that it will inspire legions of budding young screenwriters to say, 'Jesus this sucks.

At the same time, he said, the two men have recently been issuing what amount to policy statements that are unlikely to inspire legions of new followers.

It is a fitting epitaph to an artist who inspired legions of drummers and, with Coltrane, helped push forward the boundaries of modern music.