Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Marti Webb" ¶ 45
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

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 Babes
In 2006 / 2007 he played the juvenile lead in " Robin Hood & The Babes In The Wood " for UK Productions, at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth.
* Babes in the Wood ( Robin Hood )-British pantomime-Golders Green Hippodrome-with Arthur Askey, holiday season 1954
** Bard Babes ( by Robin Goodrin Nordli )

Robin and Wood
Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.
Although his work was not initially taken seriously by British critics of the Sight and Sound circle, he was venerated by French critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma, who intellectualized his work in a way Hawks himself was moderately amused by, and he was also admired by more independent British writers such as Robin Wood.
* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, Secker & Warburg, 1968
* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter " Retrospect ".
* Robin Wood, Rio Bravo, ( BFI Publishing, 2003 )
* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks ( New Edition ), ( Wayne State University Press, 2006 )
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remarks that ' hood ' was a common dialectical form of ' wood '; and that the outlaw's name has been given as " Robin Wood ".
There are indeed a number of references to Robin Hood as Robin Wood, or Whood, or Whod, from the 16th and 17th centuries.
In Barnsdale Forest, Yorkshire, there is a well known as Robin Hood's Well ( by the side of the Great North Road ), a Little John's Well ( near Hampole ) and a Robin Hood's stream ( in Highfields Wood at Woodlands ).
*" Robin Hoodthe greatest of English myths " on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time featuring Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn and Dr Juliette Wood
" Critic Robin Wood found it one of the few horror films to possess " the authentic quality of nightmare ".
Robin Wood characterizes Leatherface and his family as victims of industrial capitalism, their jobs as slaughterhouse workers having been rendered obsolete by technological advances.
Although zombie cannibals were inspired by Matheson's I Am Legend, film historian Robin Wood sees the flesh-eating scenes of Night of the Living Dead as a late-1960s critique of American capitalism.
* Wood, Robin.
** Robin Wood, starting with the episode " First Date "
In the final season of the show ( 2002 – 2003 ), things starts to come around for Buffy when Principal Robin Wood hires her as a school counselor for the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High School and has repaired her relationships with Dawn and her friends.
* 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.
In the 2009 sequel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, it is confirmed that Christopher Robin was at school, but with school being out for the summer, he returns to the forest for a visit with a lot of knowledge to share.
Robin Wood was an early champion of Heaven's Gate and its reassessment, calling it " one of the few authentically innovative Hollywood films.
Robin Wood noted, in his initial review of the film, reviewers tended to pile on the film, attempting to " outdo another with sarcasm and contempt.
Starting in 1995, Hampshire Police began a series of at least 56 raids, code named ' Operation Washington ', that eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group ( ALFSG ) newsletter editor Simon Russell.
* People of Pern ( 1988 ) by Robin Wood and Anne McCaffrey.
These included leading Northern Irish musician Van Morrison, British blues pioneer Alexis Korner as well as Ronnie Wood, Alex Harvey and Mick Jagger ; folk musicians Martin Carthy, John Renbourn and Ashley Hutchings ; rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower and David Gilmour ; and popular beat music successes Graham Nash and Allan Clarke of The Hollies.

0.572 seconds.