"tour began at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, and played in many U.S. cities. On November 15, 2009, during the opening night in Los Angeles, Dick Van Dyke (who played Bert in the film) appeared onstage during the encore. On January 22, 2010, to raise funds for a local charity and as part of a D23 event, Van Dyke did a cameo of his other role from the original film of Mr. Dawes Sr. In 2009, the song ""Temper, Temper"" was cut and replaced by a new musical number, titled ""Playing the Game."" Sheen took over the role of"
"more likely to use the character to express themselves."" Historian Stephen Shafer identifies actor Gordon Harker, active from 1921 through 1959, as ""the leading British film expert on the portrayal of the Cockney"", while BBC News recognized the skill of actor John Mills (active 1932–2004) in Cockney speech. Dialect coach Robert Blumenfeld highlighted as an ""excellent"" cinematic example of Cockney speech the performances of Peter Sellers and Irene Handl (the latter originally Cockney) in ""I'm All Right Jack"" (1959). Dick Van Dyke attempted a Cockney accent in ""Mary Poppins"" (1964). Van Dyke admitted the notoriety of his attempted accent and"
"United States, and it is also one of the most popular Monopoly game tokens, according to Matt Collins, vice president of marketing for Hasbro. In Disney's 1955 film ""Lady and the Tramp"", a Scottish terrier named Jock is the friend of Lady, the American Cocker Spaniel. A Scottish Terrier named Dulcinea is a scene-stealer in the 1998 Latin American novel Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi. In May 2007, Carnegie Mellon University named the Scottish Terrier its official mascot. The Scottie had been a long-running unofficial mascot of the university, whose founder's Scottish heritage is also honored by the official athletic"
"Fools and Horses"". Other characters in the strip closely resemble ""EastEnders"" characters, e.g. Shirl, his long suffering and battered wife (Kathy Beale) and Lou, Shirl's fearsome old-school East End mother (Lou Beale). Cockney Wanker Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in ""Viz"" based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang (often slang invented by the writers) and spends his days drinking and selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by from an East End market stall. Another of Wanker's specialities is trading used cars. Playing upon the stereotype of the indigenous population"
"Fools"", featuring Woody Woodpecker, represented perhaps Kinney's most fondly-remembered original storyline. Later, Kinney would remake the story for comics with Fethry Duck in, essentially, the Woody role. Dick Kinney Richard Timothy ""Dick"" Kinney (December 15, 1916 in Utah – March 24, 1985 in Glendale, California) was an American animator and comic book writer. His comic book work was mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. He was the writer who, along with artist Al Hubbard, created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe. Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney. Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney"
"Cockney Wanker Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in ""Viz"" based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang (often slang invented by the writers) and spends his days drinking and selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by from an East End market stall. Another of Wanker's specialities is trading used cars. Playing upon the stereotype of the indigenous population of London being fantasists, Wanker often buys a car, sells it back to the same person, for the same amount of money, then declares the transaction to have been ""A nice little"
"in repertory. In the early 1950s, he added the initial ""H"" to avoid confusion with the television entertainer Harry Corbett, known for his act with the glove-puppet Sooty. He joked that ""H"" stood for ""hennyfink"", a Cockney pronunciation of ""anything"". In 1956, he appeared on stage in ""The Family Reunion"" at the Phoenix Theatre in London. From 1958, he began to appear regularly in films, coming to public attention as a serious, intense performer, in contrast to his later reputation in sitcom. He appeared in television dramas such as ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (as four characters in episodes between"
"actual Cockney), Del is known for his broken French quotes, which are usually completely out of context, and a variety of catchphrases, including: ""He who dares, wins!"", ""This time next year we'll be millionaires"", ""Lovely Jubbly!"", ""You know it makes sense"" (which he usually says to his customers after they have agreed on a deal) and “Shut up you tart” and ""You plonker!”, usually said to Rodney. Del Boy is a happy-go-lucky, cheeky character. While not always successful, his general optimism and confidence often persuade people to believe in him. From the sixth series on, he adopts some of the"
"Mock Turtle The Mock Turtle is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll from his popular book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Its name is taken from a dish that was popular in the Victorian period, mock turtle soup. Carroll enjoyed such puns on Victorian fashions and etiquette, and showed this frequently. The description and drawing by John Tenniel gives comedic value to the Mock Turtle, as he is clearly an assemblage of creatures, therefore not a real turtle as his name rightly suggests. Alice encounters the Mock Turtle with the Gryphon. The Mock Turtle is a very melancholic character, because"
"and the 1940 Disney version, Lampwick truly becomes Pinocchio's best friend, and affectionately calls him ""Woody"" even after they have both become real boys. Lampwick appears in the 2002 feature film ""Pinocchio"" portrayed by Kim Rossi Stuart while his English dub voice was provided by Topher Grace. In the English version, he is named Leonardo. He first meets Pinocchio in prison after Pinocchio was cheated by the Fox and the Cat, teaching him what lollipop he licks, which is tangerine, and then they meet again after Pinocchio is kidnapped by a farmer in order to replace a dog that died."
"to make the toy when he came across a cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot an American black bear cub tied to a tree. The fictional character Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg, a female American black bear cub that lived at the London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. An American black bear cub, who in the spring of 1950 was caught in the Capitan Gap Fire, was made into the living representative of Smokey Bear, the mascot of the United States Forest Service. Terrible Ted was a de-toothed and de-clawed American black bear who was trained"
"English name in his first American comics appearance (1991). In a couple of 2005–2006 appearances, the character was inexplicably renamed ""Arizona Dipp"". But more recent uses (Disney Digicomics, 2009–2010) have restored his traditional English name. Kat Nipp (not to be confused with Harvey Comics character Katnip), his name a play on the word catnip, is a villainous anthropomorphic cat. Kat Nipp is an often-drunk countryside tough guy who is a rival of Mickey Mouse. Nipp made his debut in the animated short ""The Opry House"" (1929), in which he posed as a snake for a snake-charming act—continuing to smoke his"
"Mary Poppins (character) Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers's ""Mary Poppins"" books and all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the East Wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children and teaches them valuable lessons with a magical touch. Travers gives Poppins the accent and vocabulary of a real London nanny: cockney base notes overlaid with a strangled gentility. Julie Andrews, who played the character in the 1964 film adaptation, won the"
"Winnipeg (bear) Winnipeg, or Winnie, (1914 – 12 May 1934) was the name given to a female black bear that lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. Rescued by cavalry veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Winnie is best-remembered for inspiring A. A. Milne's character, Winnie-the-Pooh. Upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Lt. Harry Colebourn of The Fort Garry Horse, a Canadian cavalry regiment, volunteered his service. On 24 August, while en route to Valcartier to report to the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (CAVC) as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he purchased a young"
"original drawings painted in Palestine. The character of Duckworth in the TV show ""Duck Tales"" was named after him. Robinson Duckworth The Reverend Robinson Duckworth, DD, CVO, VD (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911), was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). He is represented by the Duck in the book, a play on his last name. He officiated at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. Duckworth was the second son of Robinson Duckworth Sr. of Liverpool"
"as a voice actor. His roles in animation include King Chicken in ""Duckman"", Captain Hook on the Fox series ""Peter Pan & the Pirates"" (1990–1991), Hexxus in the fantasy film """" (1992), Forte in (1997), Sir Nigel Thornberry on the Nickelodeon series ""The Wild Thornberrys"" (1998–2004) and Palpatine on """" (2012–2014). Curry was born in Grappenhall, Cheshire. His father, James Curry, a chaplain in the Royal Navy, died when Curry was 12. Curry's mother, Patricia, a school secretary, died in June 1999 after living with cancer for two years. His older sister, Judith (""Judy""), was a concert pianist who died"
"comedy ""A Touch of Grace"". He made several appearances on ""Maude"" between 1973 and 1975; and he performed on other series such as ""It Takes a Thief"", ""One Day At A Time"", ""Emergency!"", ""Adam-12"", ""The Practice"", ""Three's Company"", and ""Taxi"". O'Malley also appeared on the ABC television series ""Family"" in 1979 and on ""Barney Miller "" in 1979 and 1981. Walt Disney engaged O'Malley to provide voices for animated films such as the Cockney coster in the ""Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"" sequence in ""Mary Poppins"" (1964); Cyril Proudbottom, Winkie, and a policeman in ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" (1949); and the"
"Dallas McKennon Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 – July 14, 2009), sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor and voice actor, in a career lasting over 50 years. Born near La Grande, Oregon, McKennon's best-known voice roles were that of Gumby for Art Clokey, Archie Andrews in several different ""Archie"" series for Filmation, and the primary voice of Buzz Buzzard in the ""Woody Woodpecker"" cartoons. In the early 1950s, McKennon created and hosted his own daily kids TV wraparound show, ""Space Funnies""/""Capt. Jet"", which was seen weekday mornings on KNXT (KCBS) TV Ch. 2 in Hollywood, California."
"Dick Kinney Richard Timothy ""Dick"" Kinney (December 15, 1916 in Utah – March 24, 1985 in Glendale, California) was an American animator and comic book writer. His comic book work was mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. He was the writer who, along with artist Al Hubbard, created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe. Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney. Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA and Jack Kinney Productions/King Features Syndicate theatrical and TV cartoons. The Lantz cartoon ""Niagara"
"Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the Disney media franchise based on A. A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Pooh is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002 and also has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Disney's Pooh was originally voiced by Sterling Holloway (1966–1977) in three featurettes that were later used as segments in ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the"
"sections of the film: during ""A Spoonful of Sugar,"" she provided the whistling harmony for the robin, and she was also one of the Pearly singers during ""Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."" David Tomlinson, besides playing Mr. Banks, provided the voice of Mary's talking umbrella and numerous other voice-over parts (including that of Admiral Boom's first mate). During the ""Jolly Holiday"" sequence, the three singing Cockney geese were all voiced by Marni Nixon, a regular aural substitute for actresses with substandard singing voices. Nixon would later provide the singing voice for Hepburn in ""My Fair Lady"" and play one of Andrews' fellow nuns in"
"is poisoned by a rare blood type. Sir Francis Varney is the Viceroy of India in Kim Newman's ""Anno Dracula"". In the sixth episode of the TV series ""Penny Dreadful"" (2014), Abraham Van Helsing gives a copy of ""Varney the Vampire"" to Victor Frankenstein, explaining that the story is more truth than fiction and that the mysterious creature the series' characters are pursuing is a vampire. Varney is one of the main characters in ""Strange Practice"" by Vivian Shaw (2017). The 2017 film ""The Man Who Invented Christmas"" features ""Varney"" prominently as a possible inspiration for author Charles Dickens as"
"better people, but is ultimately driven to alcoholism. Natalie Schafer (as Lovey Howell) plays a ""Mary Poppins""-like character named Mary Poppedin in a dream sequence of the ""Gilligan's Island"" episode ""And Then There Were None"". Michael Rooker as Yondu in ""Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"" (2017) shouts, ""I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!"" Mary Poppins (character) Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers's ""Mary Poppins"" books and all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the East Wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane,"
"While Colebourn served three years in France, attaining the rank of major, he kept Winnie at the London Zoo to which he eventually donated her. It was at the London Zoo that A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin Milne encountered Winnie. Christopher was so taken with her that he named his teddy bear after her, which became the inspiration for Milne's fictional character in the books ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Milne also included several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh in the children’s poetry books ""When We Were Very Young"" and ""Now We Are Six"". All"
"His 'Smiley' nickname was gained due to his method of chatting up girls at school – he would ask them for a smile. Prior to his recording career he worked as a DJ with many of London's reggae sound systems, most often with the Saxon Studio International system, where he met and worked with a number of other reggae artists, including Maxi Priest, Papa Levi and Tippa Irie. Signed to the London-based reggae record label Fashion Records, his first single ""Cockney Translation"" (1984) was a Jamaican's guide to the East End dialect – '""Cockneys have names like Terry, Arfur and"
"Joel was always with his mule (Becky), and Rufus carried his cat (Kitty) under his arm. A Doberman Pinscher (Kleine) and a Great Dane (Sieg) comically shared Slim and Clovia's already too-small apartment. One memorable story introduced a baby donkey with a forked tail, which the neighbors accuse of being a demon. While the ""Los Angeles Times"" speculated that the use of animal characters may be due to his Disney experience, Moores did not market as Disney did, though Frank King licensed a Clovia doll and held a contest to name Clovia. Moores said that Walt Wallet was his alter"
"both with ""Fred"" in the name; one called Frederick and another named Alfred. Alfred died young. Also, Dickens had a sister named Fanny who had a disabled son named Henry Burnett Jr. Tiny Tim did not take his name from Fanny's child, but the actual aspects of Tiny Tim's character are taken from Henry Burnett Jr. Dickens tried other names such as ""Tiny Mick"" after ""Little Fred"" but eventually decided upon ""Tiny Tim"". After dropping the name ""Little Fred,"" Dickens instead named Scrooge's nephew ""Fred"". Dickens did not explicitly say what Tiny Tim's illness was. However, renal tubular acidosis (type"
"published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. Hyphens in the character's name were omitted by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that would eventually become one of its most successful franchises. In popular film adaptations, Pooh has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English, and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian. A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the"
"character Christopher Robin was based. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys – Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger – were incorporated into Milne's stories. Two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, were created by Milne's imagination, while Gopher was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York City. Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear he often saw at London Zoo, and ""Pooh"", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from"
"explored in the Disney Fairies film ""The Pirate Fairy"", voiced by Tom Hiddleston. In the story, Hook pretended to be a pirate ship's cabin boy and befriended a rebellious fairy Zarina who had left Pixie Hollow after being dismissed as a dust-keeper when her unauthorised experiments with pixie dust led to a disaster. Hook foresaw the great potential of the pixie dust and let Zarina think she had the authority over pirates. Occasionally, Hook appears in the Scrooge McDuck universe of comic books as the nemesis of Moby Duck, a whaler cousin of Donald Duck. appears in the Action/RPG game"
"character, Jim Evans, a ""chippy"" Cockney City whizzkid who outplays the rich and privileged. Chambers was shortlisted in 2016 and 2017 as ""Columnist of the Year (Business Media)"" in the PPA Awards for his column in E&T Magazine, The Institution Of Engineering & Technology, and in June 2017 won silver in the Tabbie Awards for his Money and Markets column in the same publication. Clem has a Guild on the ADVFN website where people can join and interact with him regarding thoughts on the direction of global markets. It includes discussion of global equities, cryptocurrencies, Forex and Commodities. It is"
"Clapham and Dwyer Clapham and Dwyer, Charles Clapham (1894-1959) and William Henry Dwyer (1891-1943), were a British comedy duo in the 1920s and 1930s. The duo were a popular music hall and stage act, appearing in venues all over the country. As part of their act in 1929 they originated the Cockney Alphabet, a humorous alphabet that replaces the letters of the alphabet with cockney phonetics, such as ""A for ‘Orses"" (Hay for Horses) and ending with ""Z for Effect"" (Said for Effect). In February 1929, they appeared in two early short films made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film"
"Hobgoblin A hobgoblin is a spirit of the hearth, typically appearing in folklore, which was once considered helpful but since the spread of Christianity has often been considered wicked. Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" as a hobgoblin. The term ""hobgoblin"" comes from ""hob"" (""elf"") and ""goblin"" (""mischievous and ugly fairy""); ""Hob"" is simply a rustic name for the countryside goblin, ""a piece of rude familiarity to cover up uncertainty or fear"". ""Hob"" is generally explained as a diminutive for ""Robert"", and here short for ""Robin Goodfellow"". The earliest instance of the word can"