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2 unusual facts about Fools


Fools' Parade

Murderer Mattie Appleyard, bank robber Lee Cottrill and young Johnny Jesus are released from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, located in the fictional town of Glory, in 1935.

The production crew used the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (now CSX) throughout filming, mainly at the Moundsville station, which was demolished in 1980.


Alan Clay

Clay studied clowning in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977, and then formed the Imperial Trunk Fools Theatre Company (pictured right), which toured New Zealand in 1978 performing at Community Arts Festivals.

Arbos – Company for Music and Theatre

„The Stories about Voyages“ a music theatre trilogy „The Singing of The Fools about Europe“, „The Concert of Birds“ and „UROBOS : Project Time“ by Dževad Karahasan and Herbert Gantschacher produced and presented in Odessa (Ukrainia), Prague, Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), Berlin, Erfurt, Leipzig (Germany), Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Hallein (Austria) and Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival 2001).

Aristology

The term has also been used in the mystery novels of American author Rex Stout, whose corpulent protagonist, Nero Wolfe, has a couple of encounters with a society known as the Ten for Aristology, who in his eyes are fools as dining is an art and not a science.

Bela Talbot

Bela fools them into helping her again, with the three of them working together to steal the precious and magical Hand of Glory.

Berkley, Somerset

Alexander Barclay, author of The Ship of Fools, was a native of this village.

Boyce

Boycie (Terrence Aubrey Boyce), a character from the British sitcoms Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass played by John Challis

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

Carnivalesque

The Feast of Fools had its chief vogue in the French cathedrals, but there are a few English records of it, notably in Lincoln Cathedral and Beverley Minster.

Damon Johnson

"And Fools Shine On" was also featured in the horror film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Daniel Picouly

In 1992 he published his first novel, The Light of fools, with the help of Daniel Pennac.

Davis Grubb

His 1969 novel Fools' Parade would also be made into a motion picture starring James Stewart.

Durakovo

In 2008, Nino Kirtadze realized a documentary film entitled "For God, Tsar and the Fatherland" (alternative title: "Durakovo: Village of Fools"), regarding the rehabilitation centre from Durakovo, patronized by Russian Orthodox philanthropist Mikhail Morosov.

E. E. Bell

Bell appeared on an episode of Hollywood Squares on April Fools' Day 2003 as part of a prank played on host Tom Bergeron.

Feast of Fools

Victor Hugo recreated a picturesque account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Quasimodo serves as King of Fools.

One interpretation that reconciles this contradiction is that, while there can be no question that Church authorities of the calibre of Robert Grosseteste repeatedly condemned the licence of the Feast of Fools in the strongest terms, such firmly rooted customs took centuries to eradicate.

Fools Garden

Fools Garden's interest in British music is such that cover versions of The Beatles's songs "Cry Baby Cry" and "Martha My Dear" appeared on their studio albums.

Frank Fools Crow

After the murder of Frank Clearwater at Wounded Knee, and because the U.S. government wouldn’t allow his body to be buried there, his wife agreed to bury him on Leonard Crow Dog’s property on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, and had the wake at Fools Crow’s house, where the body was placed in a tipi and covered with a blanket for mourners to come to pay their respect.

Garden Suburb Theatre

Tessa Peake-Jones, TV actor best known as playing Raquel Turner, girlfriend of Del-Boy Trotter in Only Fools and Horses

Greg Baldwin

He has worked in the theatre extensively as Sidney Lipton in God's Favorite, Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, Dr. Zubritsky in Neil Simon's Fools, and Count Otto Von Bruno in Bullshot Crummond.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The alternative version features the following questions: "When will they free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?", "OK with fools, but what about roads?" (referring to Russian saying "There are two troubles in Russia: the fools and the roads"), "How inflation will affect the bribes?", "Freedom of assembly always and everywhere?", "Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?" and "When the next terrorist incident occurs"?

Hope for the Flowers

The Waddling Fools, a musical group based at Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica, and in Montclair, New Jersey, performed the song "Hope for the Flowers" at Bioneers by the Bay, sponsored by the Marion Institute, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in October 2009, and the song appears on the CD Canta No Llore: The Songs of Mastatal, which benefits the Mastate Charitable Foundation.

Idiot proof

Along those lines, Douglas Adams wrote in Mostly Harmless, "a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Jan Šejna

Hruby, Peter: Fools and Heroes: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia, Peramom Press (Aust.), Potts Point, Australia, 1980 (pg. 171)

Justin Tanner

A later run of "Voice Lessons" at Sacred Fools Theater Company was nominated for four Ovation Awards including Best Play in an Intimate Theatre (Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger in Association with Sacred Fools Theater Company), Acting Ensemble for a Play (Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart & Maile Flanagan), Lead Actor in a Play (French Stewart as Nate), and Lead Actress in a Play (Laurie Metcalf as Virginia).

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Mark Murphy (born 1957), Canadian musician, criminal lawyer, co-founder of Singing Fools

King of Fools

Lord of Misrule, a European court figure appointed to preside over the Feast of Fools

Lamorne Morris

Morris has appeared in several award-winning independent films and shorts including April Fools (Code Black), One Word (Panel Select at Cannes) and voiceover work for animated comedy Urban Group Squirrels.

Last Tap Dance in Springfield

After the surgery, Homer rejects the optometrist's advice to take eye drops to keep his eyes from crusting over -- and ends up blind from his eyes scabbing over and tricked into driving to the liquor store to buy Jack Daniel's and "a carton of smokes" for Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (the latter of whom fools Homer into thinking he's Marge).

Longest Night

"The Longest Night", a 1986 episode of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses

Love Parade disaster

Bruce Cullen of Parker, Colorado and founder of Trance Elements, a LoveParade artist/performer on float number 7 - "The Ship of Fools", is cited in The Denver Post as mentioning that he and other performers were concerned before the event that there would be problems, stating "we all said it seems like this is not going to work".

Magnum Tokyo

The program came to a head when his interference backfired in a tag team match between The Dancing Fools and The Public Enemy at the 1998 "Road Wild" pay-per-view.

Moby Duck

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, a 2011 book by Donovan Hohn

Nobody's Fools

Nobody's Fools is the fifth studio album by the British rock group Slade.

Northerly

"He fools you every time he races. He has the body language of a loser and a heart as big as the Nullarbor. He invariably looks to be struggling, a shambles of a horse blundering around on memory while his jockey pumps and blusters. Then he gets going. One instant Northerly looks beaten, the next he looks unbeatable. The closer he gets to the post, the harder he tries. He grinds on. And on. And on. He simply refuses to be beaten."

Pat Cadigan

These include a 2013 Hugo Award for "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" in the Best Novelette category, presented at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, held in San Antonio, Texas over the 2013 Labor Day weekend, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award both in 1992 and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.

Robert Beadell

He also wrote two symphonies, five film scores, song cycles, piano pieces, chamber music, and five stage works: an operetta, The Kingdom of Caraway (1957), a musical, Out to the Wind (1979, based on Willa Cather's short story "Eric Hermannson's Soul"), and three operas, The Sweetwater Affair (1960, produced 1961), The Number of Fools (1965–66, rev. 1976), and Napoleon (1972, produced 1973) (Smith 2006, 12).

Sal Paradise

Sal Paradise was also the name of an indie rock band on Tooth & Nail Records in the mid 1990s, and he is mentioned in a song, "The Story of the Blues (part 2)", by singer-songwriter Pete Wylie, who quotes, "The city intellectuals of the world are divorced from the folk-bodied blood of the land and are just rootless fools." (In fact the quotation is from another of Kerouac's characters, Jack Duluoz - also based on Kerouac himself - in his 1968 novel Vanity of Duluoz).

Śatakatraya

The Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller translated these sections as Among Fools and Kings, Passionate Encounters and Refuge in the Forest respectively.

The Invisible Band

The song "Sing" is featured in the 2002 film Mr. Deeds and in the 2003 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Sleepless in Peckham".

The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories

However, Gene Lyons, columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and author of Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater (Franklin Square Press, 1996).

Theatre of Dare

Recent performances include Little Shop of Horrors, Annie, Fools, The Diary of Anne Frank, Peter Pan, No Time For Sergeants, Bell, Book and Candle, The Gin Game, and Little Women the musical.

Thunderlip

They did several tours for this record, including the Props Visual Road Fools BMX tour (which included such riders as Mat Hoffman, Mike Aitken, and Chase Hawk).

Tom Limoncelli

He is the author of Time Management for System Administrators from O'Reilly; along with Christine Hogan, co-author of the book The Practice of System and Network Administration from Addison-Wesley and in 2007 with Peter H. Salus he has published a compilation of the best April Fools jokes created by the IETF entitled The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs.

Trisha Ward

Her most recent project has been writing lyrics and music for the Coronation Street album, Rogues, Angels, Heroes and Fools.

Wheat Chiefs

Several months after the 1989 breakup of their influential skate punk band SNFU, guitarists and twin brothers Marc and Brent Belke formed the new band The Ship of Fools with SNFU bassist Curtis Creager and longtime acquaintance Dave Rees playing drums.

Yale Strom

He also composed all the New Jewish music for the National Public Radio series "Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories From the Old World to the New", hosted by Leonard Nimoy, as well as numerous film scores.


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