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But at this time Saruman himself began actively seeking the Ring near the Gladden Fields where Isildur had been killed, not far from Dol Guldur.
Aragorn also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the extended version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
* The American Reporter – " The Pooh Papers " is an archive of 28 articles in the online daily newspaper written by Joe Shea about the celebrated Stephen Slesinger Inc. v. Walt Disney Studios case, in which Fields won a preliminary $ 200 million judgment but was forced to disqualify himself before the matter was heard at trial.
Recalling their work together, Cline said that Fields chose him to direct his films because he was the only person in Hollywood who knew " less about making movies " than Fields himself.
The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it became generally identified with Fields himself.
Fields played himself in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, and his " niece " called him " Uncle Bill ".
In one scene he introduced himself: " I'm W. C., uh, Bill Fields.
In his younger days as a juggler, Fields himself never drank, because he didn't want to impair his functions while performing.
Universal finally gave him the chance, and the resulting film, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, ( 1941 ) is a masterpiece of absurd humor in which Fields appeared as himself, " The Great Man ".
In the late 1960s Warner Brothers again spoofed Fields's persona with their character Merlin the Magic Mouse, voiced by Larry Storch, and a TV ad for Cocoa Puffs cereal featured Sonny disguising himself as Fields, voiced by Chuck McCann.
* W. C. Fields nurtured a character that was not far from himself in real life, being misanthropic, misogynistic, and a hard drinker, as well as lovingly massaging the English language through the utterly unique bellow of his voice and his famous bulbous nose.
" This statement is often misattributed to Fields himself.
In 1969 he himself was one of the 4 harpsichordists in a similar concert, this time the other players being Eileen Joyce, Geoffrey Parsons and Simon Preston, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner.
* Fields, W. C .: " My Little Chickadee " ( 1940 ), in which the Fields character calls himself " one of the Back Bay Twillies.
Elysian Fields performed at the Carnegie Hall on April 5, 2007, in Michael Dorf's all star tribute to Bruce Springsteen ; Oren was once again musical director, backing up several artists including Badly Drawn Boy, and Bruce Springsteen himself for the rousing finale of " Rosalita ".
Ketch's execution of Lord Russell at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 21 July 1683 was performed clumsily ; in a pamphlet entitled The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire he alleged that the prisoner did not " dispose himself as was most suitable " and that he was interrupted while taking aim.
* Uncle Dudley / Uncle Marvel-During the Golden Age, an old man named Dudley ( who was clearly modeled after W. C. Fields ) claimed that he was not only a relative of the Marvels but also a Marvel himself, although neither was true.
In 2007 Fields appeared as himself on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother with host Bob Barker in the episode titled " Showdown ".
In the RKO Radio Pictures film, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ), Fields appeared as himself, re-enacting a slapstick comedy scene from The Hen-Pecks.
However, the director of the film, A. Edward Sutherland, later claimed that the footage was a hoax, concocted by himself and W. C. Fields, the star of the film.
The series ' writer, Philip Martin, also appeared in multiple roles, playing the gangland boss Rawlinson in the original play, the hired assassin ' The White Devil ' at the end of season two ( though Martin was credited as Larson P Whipsnide, a reference to his WC Fields inspired performance as the character ), and as himself, dictating the script to a typist, in cutaways throughout season two.

Fields and made
The double meaning in the anatomical made it a familiar vaudeville device, as in the gags of Weber and Fields.
This made many Ruthenians flee to the scarcely populated lands, Dzikie Pola ( Wild Fields ), the Polish name of the Zaporizhian Sich, where they formed a large part of the Cossacks.
In 2010, the documentary film Strange Powers: Stephen Merritt and the Magnetic Fields made its debut in film festivals around the world.
Marsalis ' management had submitted a " revised version " of " Blood on the Fields " which was " premiered " at Yale University after the composer made seven small changes.
Fields also represented Michael Jackson during contract talks with Sony Music in the early 1990s, as well as during the 1993 child molestation allegations made against Jackson in 1993.
RuPaul made appearances on The Rosie Show and The Chew, and also attended a Drag Race NY Premiere party at Patricia Fields store in New York.
The colour promotional clips for " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " Penny Lane ", made in early 1967 and directed by Peter Goldman took the promotional film format to a new level.
It is alleged that the county name originated from a statement made by General Cornwallis when he declared " How Fair These Fields " during the British occupation of the area in 1780-81.
The notion of East End opium dens seems to have originated with a description by Charles Dickens of a visit he made to an opium den in nearby Bluegate Fields, which inspired certain scenes in his last, unfinished, novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).
In May 2007, Dembo was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow.
This fellowship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute, its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community.
It was after this battle that Glorfindel made the famous prophecy that the Witch-king would be killed by no man ( he was in fact killed by a woman, Éowyn of Rohan, and a hobbit, Meriadoc Brandybuck, during the Battle of Pelennor Fields ; hence the prophecy was fulfilled, but not in the way anyone expected ).
Bosko made a surprise cameo in a 1990 episode of the television series Tiny Toon Adventures called " Fields of Honey ," in which Babs Bunny, after being told by the Acme Looniversity's mysterious vaultkeeper about Honey ( voiced by B. J.
In his speech at the Fields Medal award ceremony in 1954, Hermann Weyl praised Serre in seemingly extravagant terms, and also made the point that the award was for the first time awarded to an algebraist.
Monti had small roles in a couple of Fields ' films, and in 1971 wrote a biography, W. C. Fields and Me, which was made into a motion picture at Universal Studios in 1976.
The comedian's troublesome behavior kept other producers away, and Fields was professionally idle until he made his debut on radio.
Fields made four short subjects for comedy pioneer Mack Sennett in 1932 and 1933, distributed through Paramount Pictures.
In 1940 Fields made My Little Chickadee, with Mae West, and The Bank Dick, perhaps his best-known film, in which he has the following exchange with bartender Shemp Howard:
Fields would twit Charlie about his being made of wood:
As documented in W. C. Fields and Me ( the memoir of Carlotta Monti, published in 1971 and made into a 1976 film of the same name starring Rod Steiger ), he died at Las Encinas Sanatorium, Pasadena, California, a bungalow-type sanitarium where, as he lay in bed dying, his longtime and final love, Carlotta Monti, went outside and turned the hose onto the roof, so as to allow Fields to hear for one last time his favorite sound — the sound of falling rain.
Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

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