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Robin and Hood
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.
* Robin Hood ( 1922 )
Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )
He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a " modern-day Robin Hood ".
Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend.
We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.
Protagonists in cyberpunk writing usually include computer hackers, who are often patterned on the idea of the lone hero fighting injustice, such as Robin Hood.
In 1993, he starred as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks's comedy, Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
* Robin Hood Makes Good ( 1939 )
* Robin Hood Daffy ( 1958 )
Searchers canvassed all of West Memphis, but focused primarily on Robin Hood Hills, where the boys were reported last seen.
Despite a human chain making a shoulder-to-shoulder search of Robin Hood Hills, searchers found no sign of the missing boys.
Around 1: 45 p. m., juvenile Parole Officer Steve Jones spotted a boy's black shoe floating in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal in Robin Hood Hills.
According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.
According to HBO's documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ( 1996 ) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations ( 2000 ), no blood was found at the crime scene, indicating that the location where the bodies were found was not necessarily the location in which the murders actually happened.
The narratives of traditional songs often also remember folk heroes such as John Henry to Robin Hood.
British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his " merry men.
" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

Robin and According
According to academic Corey Robin: " Hayek admired Pinochet's Chile so much that he decided to hold a meeting of his Mont Pelerin Society in Viña del Mar, the seaside resort where the coup against Allende was planned.
According to Robin Blackburn, " The decline of CND by late 1961, however, deprived the New Left of much of its momentum as a movement, and uncertainties and divisions within the Board of the journal led to the transfer of the Review to a younger and less experienced group in 1962.
According to this theory, Robin Hood was pardoned and employed by the king in 1323.
According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".
According to figures given to the magazine Kit Car ( The UK's Top Selling Kit Car Magazine ) the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars who sell 700 kits a year.
According to the historian Robin Storey, " If Henry's insanity was a tragedy, his recovery was a national disaster ".
: Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives " and the documentary The World According to Monsanto, a film made by a French independent journalist Marie-Monique Robin.
According to Robin, most of these scientists actually lost their jobs as a consequence of their speaking out.
* In the 2008 French documentary film The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin shows the corruption of various government officials & the silencing of dissenting scientists by Monsanto.
* Marie-Monique Robin: " The World According to Monsanto, A Film by Marie-Monique Robin " Image & Compagnie – ARTE France – Productions Thalie – National Film Board of Canada – WDR 2008
* Hartley Dodge Memorial ( Borough Hall ) appears in a scene of The World According to Garp starring Glenn Close and Robin Williams.
According to economist Robin Hanson, in 1990 the first known corporate prediction market was used at Xanadu.
According to a study by Robin Dunbar at the University of Liverpool, primate brain size is determined by social group size.
According to film critic Robin Wood Magnani's " persona as a great actress is built, not on transformation, but on emotional authenticity ... doesn't portray characters but expresses ' genuine ' emotions.
According to the eminent sinologist Robin Yates, newly discovered Qin Dynasty legal codes show that officials were required to correctly calculate the exact amount of labor expected of all artisans ; if the artisan was ordered to perform either too much work or too little work, the official would be held accountable.
According to French journalist Marie-Monique Robin, author of Escadrons de la mort, l ' école française ( 2004, Death Squads, The French School ), the paternity of Operation Condor is to be attributed to General Rivero, intelligence officer of the Argentine Armed Forces and former student of the French.
According to set designer Robin Wagner, as interviewed for the book Set Design, by author Lynn Pecktal, the original Bennett version was to be a " multimedia " show, with an elaborate tilting floor, banks of television monitors, and other technological touches.
According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born ( issues # 7 & # 2, respectively ), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.
According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept.
According to Robin Bernstein who describes the meaning in the context of the United States, the pickaninny is characterized by three qualities: " the figure is always juvenile, always of color, and always resistant if not immune to pain .".
* Batman & Robin: According to a November 14, 2000 article, as well as the DVD commentary and the documentary Shadows of the Bat: Batman Unbound ( on disc 2 of the Batman & Robin: Special Edition DVD set ), director Joel Schumacher admitted that he was told by Warner executives to make Batman & Robin " more toyetic.

Robin and Spike
* Lies My Parents Told Me 1st flashback: In 1977 New York, Spike fights Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood while her young son Robin watches from a hiding place.
When Nikki Wood's son Robin tries to kill Spike, he unwittingly frees Spike from his hypnotic trigger: the song " Early One Morning ", a favorite of his mother, which evokes Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior toward him after she turned ; after Spike is able to address these issues, he realizes his mother had always loved him, knowledge which frees him from the First's control.
Giles later loses Buffy's trust somewhat when he takes part in a scheme with Robin Wood to kill Spike (" Lies My Parents Told Me ").
Marder also co-wrote the Dreamworks film Bee Movie, with Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, and Andy Robin, which was released on November 2, 2007.
On a date with Buffy, Robin explains that his mother was killed by a vampire ; he later learns, from the First Evil, that this vampire is Spike.
As retribution for his mother's murder, Robin conspires with Giles to distract Buffy and kill Spike.
Maggs directed many leading actors in often award-winning productions, including Rowan Atkinson, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Pryce, Robin Williams, Hugh Laurie, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Patricia Hodge, Alison Steadman, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.
*" The Puerto Rican Day " ( 1998 ) ( with Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Jennifer Crittenden, Spike Feresten, Steve Koren, David Mandel, Dan O ' Keefe, Gregg Kavet & Andy Robin )
Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.
They leave for the school, accompanied by Spike and Robin.
Buffy and Andrew make their way to the basement while Spike and Robin guard the stairway entrance.
At the school, Spike and Robin are attacked by more students.
Spike inadvertently confirms his role in the murder of Robin's mother, and Robin makes a failed attempt to stake Spike ; in the chaos of the fight, his actions go unnoticed.
* Spike tells Robin Wood that his soul makes him " unique, more or less " – referring obliquely to Angel.
Buffy, Principal Robin Wood, and Spike are fighting a bunch of vampires.
* The title, " Lies My Parents Told Me ", also refers to the lies that Giles tells to arrange for Robin Wood to kill Spike.
* The second Slayer Spike kills, Nikki Wood, has a son named Robin, who later appears as Sunnydale High's new principal in the seventh season.
In " Lies My Parents Told Me ", Robin is seen as a child witness to an earlier fight between Spike and his mother, as well as trying to get his revenge on Spike in the present day for his mother's death.
* Spike complains about the duster he'd ' ripped off a dead slayer ' ( Nikki Wood, Slayer from the 1970s and mother of Robin Wood, who appears in the final season of Buffy ).

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