1.   Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has a word for all those Hollywood Technicolor fantasies of an emerald-green Ireland populated by lovable eccentrics.

2.   Drag queens and transvestites are often presented in film today as lovable eccentrics.

3.   Rather than conjuring up a bevy of lovable eccentrics, Levinson and McEvoy emphasize the petty absurdities of ordinary life.

4.   This innocuous piece of comic Anglophilia features the usual cast of lovable British eccentrics plopped down in a picturesque seaside spot, in this case a Cornish village.