Scott directed a revisionist adaptation of Robin Hood, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.

) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.

Robin Hood and Maid Marian

The naming of Marian may have come from the French pastoral play of c. 1280, the Jeu de Robin et Marion, although this play is distinct from the English legends.

Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.

Marian did not immediately gain the unquestioned role ; in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage, his sweetheart is ' Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses '.

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant.

In 1989 he created the children's comedy TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a loose retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in which he appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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 ".

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

Sveum named Garth Iorg as his replacement as third base coach, and made Robin Yount the new bench coach, replacing Ted Simmons.

In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees stated, " He made emotion fashionable, that it was all right to talk about and sing about very emotional things.

At the age of seven, he made his acting debut, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood.

Llewelyn made a brief appearance in ' Little Mother ' an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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.

It was an unusually extravagant production for the Warner Bros. studio, which had made a name for itself in producing socially conscious low-budget gangster films, but their adventure movies starring Flynn had generated hefty revenue and Robin Hood was created to capitalize on this.

He is somewhat depressed since Peter Pan, now named Peter Banning ( played by Robin Williams ), has left Neverland, and worries he has nothing left to accomplish, having killed the crocodile and made it into a foundation for a clock tower.

: 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.

The superhero group the Teen Titans ( first appearance 1964 ) was originally made up entirely of sidekicks: Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Speedy.

As Robin, Dick Grayson made regular appearances in Batman related comic books and other DC Comics publications from 1940 through the early 1980s until the character set aside the Robin identity and became the independent superhero Nightwing.

To minimize the change, they made the new Robin, Jason Peter Todd, who first appeared in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ), similar to a young Grayson.

The Whittwood Town Center ( formerly the Whittwood Mall ) anchored by JC Penney, Target, Sears, Vons, and Kohl's has made way for Red Robin and Black Angus.

* The Guardians of the Universe made an appearance in Justice League: The New Frontier voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.

On 25 October 2006, Townshend declined at the last minute to do a scheduled interview with Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern after Stern's co-anchor Robin Quivers and sidekick Artie Lange made joking references to his 2003 arrest.

His marriage to Youngs temporarily made him the brother-in-law of John Savage, Robin Young, and Jim Youngs ).

In 1989, Hawke made his breakthrough appearance, playing shy student Todd Anderson opposite Robin Williams's inspirational English teacher in Dead Poets Society.

In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), along with his brothers, but the awards were not presented until 2004, after Maurice's death ; his son Adam accompanied Barry and Robin to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony, representing his father.

* Robin Williams made his first appearance as " Mork " on Happy Days.

In 1955, Columbia made a film as a musical comedy with a score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin.

In March 2009 Jones went to the top of the UK Music Charts for the third time in his career thanks to a cover of " Islands in the Stream ", sung with Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon and Robin Gibb, who co-wrote the original with his brothers Barry and Maurice.

* The Coasters ' song Poison Ivy was used for the Batman and Robin movie's original soundtrack in 1997, as a cover by Me ' Shell NdegéOcello.

Also during his 1999 campaign, Olerud appeared on the cover of the September 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, along with fellow Mets infielders Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordóñez, and Robin Ventura.

In December 2005, a recordings of this performance was released as part of double A side single, credited as " G4 feat Robin Gibb " together with G4's cover version of the Johnny Mathis song " When a Child is Born ".

Johnson has also played other guitar brands such as Robin, Rickenbacker, Jackson and a Charvel, which appears on the cover of the Ah Via Musicom album.

* Black Velvet ( album ), a 1990 album featuring Robin Lee's cover of the song " Black Velvet "

DC Comics rebooted Teen Titans with issue # 1 ( cover dated November 2011 ) with a roster of Red Robin, Kid Flash, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Solstice, and two new characters, one of whom was initially named Bugg, now called ' Skitter '.

This version's cover " has a futuristic soldier who looks like Robin Williams in a funny hat ," as Haldeman notes, " But alas, not all of the changes got in, and the book has some internal contradictions because of things left over from the version.

A first album for the RSO label ( her third in all ), Rising Sun, produced by Steve Cropper, produced no hit singles, but her next album, Love Me, produced by Freddie Perren, gave her two top-20 hits, " Love Me " ( written by Barry and Robin Gibb ), and a Barbara Lewis cover, " Hello Stranger.

American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded a cover version of " Fly, Robin, Fly " for his 1976 album, Bird in a Silver Cage, which was co-produced and arranged by Sylvester Levay.

By the A1 road, near Skelbrooke, is Robin Hood's Well, with its stone cover designed by John Vanbrugh.

The album included the Robin Williamson covers " No Sleep Blues " and " I Need My Friend ", and a cover of The Beatles ' " Eleanor Rigby ".

Appearing on the front cover of the October 1977 Modern Motor Magazine, the concept was put together by the Recaro Australia Managing Director David Bones and Marketing director Robin Luck ( a former Editor of Modern Motor ).

Alfonzo was part of the infield dubbed " The Best Infield Ever " on a cover of Sports Illustrated, along with Rey Ordonez, Robin Ventura, and John Olerud.

In the 2006 movie Happy Feet, Robin Williams ( voice of a penguin ) sang a cover of the song in Spanish.

* The Book of Brychan ( The Magic Door, Book 4 ) ( 1982 ), Newcastle upon Tyne, Galloping Dog Press ; illustrations and cover design by Robin Campbell

The idea for World's Best # 1 originated from the identically formatted 1940 New York World's Fair Comics featuring Superman, Batman, and Robin with 96 pages and a cardboard cover.

Several of Scott's books include black and white drawings and ( in some editions ) cover art by the Wiccan artist Robin Wood.

* Task Force Dagger: The Hunt for bin Laden ( ISBN 0-375-50861-9 ), by The Green Berets author Robin Moore, had sections devoted to Idema, referred to in the book as a special forces operative named " Jack " ( he was also featured on the book's cover ).

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IB had provided cover for British Intelligence ( two directors of the bank, Sir Bickham Sweet-Escott and Robin Brooke, belonged to MI6 ), but all British and French banks were nationalized by Egypt at the same time.

* Robin McKinley cover art, novel synopses, reviews

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.

Jim Henson's Muppets made three video cover versions of the song, on Sesame Street, episode 19 in 1969, The Ed Sullivan Show in October 1970, and The Muppet Show episode 312 in 1978, which was performed by Robin the Frog, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.