The growing Cold War background of the Lucky Starr series is also present in Oceans of Venus, though here it serves as a red herring, causing Mel Morriss to wrongly suspect a Sirian plot behind the growing troubles on Venus.

He also appeared in Ralph Thomas's Doctor in Love and portrayed an education minister in Frank Launder's The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, and appeared as Inspector Corcoran in the Montgomery Tully-directed film Dead Lucky, opposite Vincent Ball and Betty McDowall.

Between March and August 2009, he starred as Pozzo in Sean Mathias's production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett opposite Sir Ian McKellen ( Estragon ), Sir Patrick Stewart ( Vladimir ) and also Ronald Pickup ( Lucky ).

Akshaye Khanna opted out of the project subsequently and was replaced by Lucky Ali, while Malaika Arora stepped in Lisa Ray's shoes and Namrata Singh Gujral was cast opposite Kumar Gaurav in lieu of Shilpa Shetty.

Their waiting is interrupted by the passing through of Pozzo and his heavily-laden slave Lucky.

When the original pairing tries to find out why Lucky does not put down his load ( at least not unless his master is prevailing on him to do something else ), Pozzo explains that Lucky is attempting to mollify him to prevent him from selling him.

Pozzo provides a handkerchief, but, when Estragon tries to wipe his tears away, Lucky kicks him.

Once Lucky has been revived, Pozzo has him pack up his things and they leave.

Vladimir tries to get Estragon to remember Pozzo and Lucky, but all he can call to mind are the bones and getting kicked.

They play at imitating Pozzo and Lucky, but Estragon can barely remember having met them and simply does what Vladimir asks.

Pozzo and Lucky arrive, with Pozzo now blind and insisting that Lucky is dumb.

The rope is much shorter, and Lucky – who has acquired a new hat – leads Pozzo, rather than being driven by him.

Lucky and Pozzo depart.

It has been contended that " Pozzo and Lucky are simply Didi and Gogo writ large ", unbalanced as their relationship is.

However, Pozzo's dominance is noted to be superficial ; " upon closer inspection, it becomes evident that Lucky always possessed more influence in the relationship, for he danced, and more importantly, thought – not as a service, but in order to fill a vacant need of Pozzo: he committed all of these acts for Pozzo.

" Pozzo credits Lucky with having given him all the culture, refinement, and ability to reason that he possesses.

Little is learned about Pozzo besides the fact that he is on his way to the fair to sell his slave, Lucky.

Pozzo controls Lucky by means of an extremely long rope which he jerks and tugs if Lucky is the least bit slow.

Lucky is the absolutely subservient slave of Pozzo and he unquestioningly does his every bidding with " dog-like devotion ".

Pozzo and Lucky have been together for sixty years and, in that time, their relationship has deteriorated.

Even in the second act when Pozzo has inexplicably gone blind, and needs to be led by Lucky rather than driving him as he had done before, Lucky remains faithful and has not tried to run away ; they are clearly bound together by more than a piece of rope in the same way that Didi and Gogo are " ied to Godot ".

Beckett himself sanctioned " one of the most famous mixed-race productions of Godot, performed at the Baxter Theatre in the University of Cape Town, directed by Donald Howarth, with [...] two black actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, playing Didi and Gogo ; Pozzo, dressed in checked shirt and gumboots reminiscent of an Afrikaner landlord, and Lucky (' a shanty town piece of white trash ') were played by two white actors, Bill Flynn and Peter Piccolo [...].

Since then, pop singers in the latter group have included KK, Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan, Sagarika, Colonial Cousins ( Hariharan, Leslie Lewis ), Lucky Ali, and Sonu Nigam, and music composers like Jawahar Wattal, who made top selling albums with, Daler Mehndi, Shubha Mudgal, Baba Sehgal, Swetha Shetty and Hans Raj Hans.

" A terrible cry " from the wings heralds the initial entrance of Lucky, who has a rope tied around his neck.

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

The story is also a growth process for Ojo ; he learns that luck is not a matter of who you are or what you have, but what you do ; he is renamed " Ojo the Lucky ," and so he appears in the following Oz books.

In the Lucky Luke comic book Sarah Bernhardt, which is set in the late 19th-century Wild West, President Rutherford B. Hayes ’ wife is portrayed as being one of many who strongly disapproves of the titular actress ' tour of the United States, given her reputation for loose morality.

Harris was spotted by Lucky Millinder who asked him to join his band's tour.

Disney and lead animator Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who debuted in Trolley Troubles in 1927.

Gambino was also the only mob boss of the Five Families who attended the burial of the longtime friend " Lucky " Luciano.

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

The first to arrive was Lucky Luciano, who had been deported to Italy, and had to travel to Havana with a false passport.

He was assassinated by a younger faction led by Lucky Luciano, who established a power-sharing arrangement rather than a " boss of bosses " to prevent future wars.

* Charles " Lucky " Luciano – Founder of the National Crime Syndicate, who used Murder, Inc. as their enforcers

In February 2006, the now-NBC Universal ( who still owns the Lantz library ) sold the trademarks rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit along with the copyright to the original 26 cartoons produced Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Hoppy Go Lucky ( 1952 ) was a parody of Of Mice and Men, with Sylvester accompanied by the giant, simple-minded cat " Bennie ," who wants a mouse " to hug and pet.

* Lucky – the one-lunged family cat who chain-smokes cigarettes and wears an uninterested, deadpan expression.

Reggae became quite popular and there was also a singer from KwaZulu-Natal, Sipho Johnson known as Jumbo who gave the likes of Lucky Dube quite a scare.

He appeared in the late 1960s in a gag on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in as a French ventriloquist named Lucky Pierre, who has the misfortune of having his elderly dummy die of a heart attack in the middle of his act.

With this in mind, Peggy is openly critical of Luanne's choice to get involved with Lucky, who Peggy views as not being good enough for Luanne.

Performers who use acoustic 12-string guitars span a range of genres, from folk ( Arlo Guthrie, Keith Potger, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Woodward, Pete Seeger and Noel Paul Stookey ), through reggae ( Bob Marley ), traditional blues ( Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, and Guy Davis ), folk rock ( Paul Simon, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gerry Beckley, John Allan Cameron ) and country ( Pinmonkey's Michael Reynolds, Taylor Swift and Mike Nesmith ), to rock bands ( Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge, Jimi Hendrix on " Hear My Train A-Comin ", Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison, John Lennon of The Beatles, Robert Smith of The Cure, David Bowie for his " Space Oddity " live performances, Pete Townshend of The Who, Roger Hodgson ( ex-Supertramp ), who used acoustic 12-string on " Give a Little Bit ", " Even in the Quietest Moments ", " C ' est le Bon " and " Know Who You Are "; Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greg Lake on " Lucky Man " and " Still ... You Turn Me On ", Brian May of Queen, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes ).

While still a teenager, he married Judith Peters ( aka Miss Mercy of Frank Zappa's infamous all-girl group, The GTOs ), and together they had a son, Johnny III ( who goes by Lucky ).

* Hägar and Lucky Eddie strung up by their hands and legs to the wall of a dungeon, which is often visited by Mr. Giggles, who torments them with tickling.