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In his book The Mystery of Jack of Kent and the Fate of Owain Glyndŵr, Alex Gibbon argues that the folk hero Jack of Kent, also known as Siôn Cent – the family chaplain of the Scudamore family – was in fact Owain Glyndŵr himself.
Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lili, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness.
He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the hero of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life.
The 1983 film Last Plane Out about journalist Jack Cox's experiences in Nicaragua portrayed the Sandanistas as crazed communist psychopaths while making Anastasio Somoza Debayle look like a sympathetic hero.
Jack Kelly was a local hero as a triple Olympic-gold-medal-winning sculler, and became wealthy as his construction company became the largest such enterprise on the East Coast.
Several hip-hop activists have also reflected on Johnson's legacy, most notably in the album The New Danger, by Mos Def, in which songs like " Zimzallabim " and " Blue Black Jack " are devoted to the artist's pugilistic hero.
The fate of this ambiguous hero is left untold, with Jack wondering, as he falls, if Morningstar will reach him in time.
In the 1960s, some reviewers criticized Alec Leamas ’ s resultant defeatism ; The Times said, “ the hero must triumph over his enemies, as surely as Jack must kill the giant in the nursery tale.
He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.
In these tales, Turpin was the hero, accompanied by his trusty colleagues Claude Duval, Tom King, and Jack Rann.
In mythology, English fairytales such as Jack and the Beanstalk helped form the modern perception of giants as stupid and violent, while the legendary dwarf Tom Thumb is a traditional hero in English folklore.
Jack Shaheen, a critic of Hollywood's portrayal of Arabs, believes that " the studio feared financial and possibly political hardships if they made the film's hero Arab ", and claimed that " If no attempt is made to challenge negative stereotypes about Arabs, the misperceptions continue.
A Times review of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold strongly criticised John le Carré for failing to provide a happy ending, and gave unequivocal reasons why in the reviewer's opinion ( shared by many others ) such an ending is needed: " The hero must triumph over his enemies, as surely as Jack must kill the giant in the nursery tale.
Jack ( hero ) | Jack kills Cormoran with a pick-axe
Bottigheimer notes that in the southern Appalachians of America Jack became a generic hero of tales usually adapted from the Brothers Grimm.
* The main character in the 2006 Science Fiction Series The Lost Fleet by John G. Hemry ( writing as Jack Campbell ) is a mythical hero to his people.
* Jack ( hero ), an archetypal trickster hero appearing in many folk tales, fairy tales, legends and literature.
* Jack Mary Ann – a local folk hero who lived in the Top Boat House area of Broughton
James Robinson was an avid collector of a number of different things and transferred this interest to the hero, Jack Knight, who ran a collectibles shop.
When not working, Jack often hangs with his eccentric friends, Leo Trench, an agoraphobic computer hacker who, like one of the characters in McKellar's earlier comedy series, Twitch City, is unable to leave his apartment but nonetheless leads a complex and bizarre life, and Bobby Lee, an Asian kid who works in the family store by day, and is a club disc-jockey and masked hero by night.

Jack and |
image: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA.
File: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Schmitt poses by the American flag, with Earth in the background, during Apollo 17's first EVA.
| Jack Piff
International maritime signal flags | Signal flag " Lima " called the " Yellow Jack " which when flown in harbor means ship is under quarantine.
A simple yellow flag ( contagion ) | yellow flag ( also called the " Yellow Jack ") had historically been used to signal quarantine ( it stands for Q among signal flags ), but now indicates the opposite, as a signal of a ship free of disease that requests boarding and inspection.
British Major Jack Churchill ( far right ) leads Commandos off a LCPL | Eureka Boat during a training exercise, sword in hand, in World War II.
An example of SignWriting, an ASL translation of Jack and Jill ( song ) | Jack and Jill
John Lennon & Yoko Ono by Jack Mitchell ( photographer ) | Jack Mitchell, 1980
| Dr. Jack Gramm
| You Don't Know Jack
| Dr. Jack Kevorkian
| Jack and Jill
Blatter with Barack Obama and Jack Warner ( football executive ) | Jack Warner.
* American ( U. S. A .)— Hecht, Anthony: " Clair de lune " ( before 1977 ); Nyhart, Nina: " Captive Pierrot " ( 1988 ; after the Paul Klee painting above under # Works on canvas, paper, and board | Works on Canvas, Paper and Board ); Peachum, Jack: " Our Pierrot in Autumn " ( 2008 ).
World heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson ( boxer ) | Jack Johnson, nicknamed the " Galveston Giant "
The Pioneer Column hoists the Union Flag | Union Jack on the Monadnock | kopje overlooking the city, 13 September 1890
Jack Buck ( left ) with Ralph Kiner at the 1987 in baseball | 1987 Baseball Hall of Fame | Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
James Garner and Jack Kelly in Maverick ( TV series ) | Maverick ( 1957 )
File: Naval Jack of Norway. svg | Naval Jack since 1905

Jack and hangs
Amsterdam ambushes Jack in the catacombs, strangles him, and hangs his body in Paradise Square.
Flagg's sitters included Mark Twain and Ethel Barrymore ; his portrait of Jack Dempsey now hangs in the Great Hall of the National Portrait Gallery.
Nick hangs up and boards a boat with the real scepter as a shocked Jack broods over his situation.
He hangs up, therefore Jack is thinking she is having an affair with him.
Stunned but amused, Jack hangs up.
Confined back into Arkham Asylum, Jack hangs himself on 16 February 1922, unable to handle the reality of himself and what he has witnessed.

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