Fagin, a fictional antisemitic character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
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For England's national football team's 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign, Fagin performed "That's England Alright", a variation of "That's Livin' Alright" produced by Clive Langer, with lyrics by Jimmy Lawless.
In an abridged version of the book largely meant for younger readers, the ultimate chapter states that all members of Fagin's gang had unhappy endings similar to Monks and the Artful Dodger; and "only Charley Bates escape that fate and became a respectable citizen".
The make-up of Alec Guinness, who portrayed Fagin, was based on George Cruikshank's original illustrations of the Dickens masterpiece, and it was considered anti-semitic by some as it was felt to perpetrate Jewish racial stereotypes.
In addition, he performed in a number of radio adaptations of literary works—appearing as David Copperfield on Favorite Story, as Huckleberry Finn on NBC University Theater, and as Oliver Twist, together with Basil Rathbone as Fagin, on Stars Over Hollywood.
Sir Alec Guinness, whose best known screen roles included playing eight different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, Fagin in Oliver Twist and Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, was born in a ground floor flat in the building on 2 April 1914.
Paul Vallely writes in The Independent that Dickens's Fagin in Oliver Twist —the Jew who runs a school in London for child pickpockets—is widely seen as one of the most grotesque Jews in English literature.
First one was a scene of Oliver asking a woodpecker who had a resemblance to Woody Woodpecker to join him to fight Fagin, the woodpecker went to shock and did the middle finger, Oliver did the same when Olivia was singing a song that she loved him.