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8 unusual facts about smiley


Band-Aid

They continue to be a commercial success today, with such themes as Superman, Spider-Man, Hello Kitty, Rocket Power, Rugrats, smiley faces, Barbie, Dora the Explorer and Batman.

Happy face

Smiley, a representation of a smiling face, most often colored yellow

Justin Kerr-Smiley

Under The Sun was first published in 2007 and is a novel set in the South Pacific during the closing stages of World War II.

Milicent Bagot

Milicent Jessie Eleanor Bagot, CBE (28 March 1907 – 26 May 2006) was a British intelligence officer, and the model for the character Connie Sachs, the eccentric Sovietology expert who appeared in John le Carré's novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.

Smiley's People

Near the site where Vladimir was killed, he discovers Vladimir's half-empty packet of Gauloises cigarettes, containing the negative of a compromising photograph of Leipzig and another man.

Smiley's People was dramatised as a six-part miniseries for television for the BBC in 1982 as a sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), again starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.

During the 2012 Academy Awards he told the press that Smiley's People would be the most likely sequel.

Tin Man Is Down

References (homages) to the work of John le Carre feature, one in a scripted line spoken by Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) in a restaurant scene, saying, to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), "We are pragmatists. We adapt. We are not the keepers of some sacred flame", a direct interpolation of a line originally spoken by the character of Oliver Lacon, in Smiley's People.


1946–47 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup included 4 of the 5 Whiz Kids, guards Smiley and Vance, forwards Phillip and Ken Menke as well as All-American guard Walt Kirk and Fred Green at center.

Alafair Burke

Burke's first novel, Judgment Calls, is loosely based on the case of Keith Hunter Jesperson, a serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley faces he drew on his many letters to the media.

Andrew James Allen

Allen was next seen in Peter Jackson's film adaption of The Lovely Bones, portraying Samuel Heckler, and right now he's working with director Michael J. Gallagher on a feature length horror film called Smiley, which will be finished in 2012.

Anthony Davie

He is currently manager/tour manager for Los Mondo Bongo (celebrating the music of Joe Strummer) which includes Joe Strummer's post-Clash bandmates Pablo Cook (percussion) and Smiley Culture/Steve Barnard (drums) from The Mescaleros, as well as bassist Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), guitarist Steve Harris (Gary Numan) and vocalist Mike Peters (The Alarm), plus Ray Gange of Rude Boy film fame DJing.

Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh

Lord Iveagh married Miranda Daphne Jane Smiley, daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, on 12 March 1963.

Bob Smiley

In 2008, Smiley followed Tiger Woods from the gallery for the entirety of Woods' season and wrote a memoir about the adventure.

Brett Smiley

In 1974, Smiley—who, at the time, was managed and produced by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham—recorded an album, Breathlessly Brett. The album—which includes the songs "Va Va Va Voom" and "Space Ace"—remained unreleased until 2004, when RPM Records included it as part of its Lipsmackin' 70s collection.

Smiley released one single, "Va Va Va Voom," and made an appearance on the Russell Harty television show, where he performed the song "Space Ace".

Bucharest Symphony Orchestra

The flexibility of choice in music genres was the cornerstone of the joint-projects which involved outstanding Romanian artists such as the soprano Angela Gheorghiu, the violinist Corina Belcea, Teodor Ilincai, Tina Munteanu, Smiley, Elena Gheorghe, Cristina Rus, Nico, Vlad Miriţă, Ovidiu Lipan "Țăndărică", Aurelian Temisan, Oana Sarbu, Maria Jinga, Iordache Basalic and Transsylvania Phoenix.

Call for the Dead

Other characters and actors are as follows: Inspector Mendel—Kenneth Cranham; Elsa Fennan—Eleanor Bron; Ann Smiley—Anna Chancellor; Peter Guillam—Richard Dillane; Maston—James Laurenson; Dieter Frey—Henry Goodman; Adam Scarr/Mundt—Sam Dale; Ludo Oriel—Janice Acquah; Nursing Sister—Caroline Guthrie; With Benjamin Askew and Jonathan Tafler.

"Blondie" is soon identified by fellow Circus agent Peter Guillam as Hans-Dieter Mundt, an East German agent under diplomatic cover working for Dieter Frey, a German spy of Smiley's during World War II who has since become an important East German agent.

It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn, and starred James Mason as Charles Dobbs, (le Carré had sold the use of the name George Smiley with the rights to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), Harry Andrews as Mendel, Simone Signoret as Elsa Fennan and Maximilian Schell as Dieter Frey.

Cheyletiella

Cheyletiella strandtmanni Smiley, 1970 — infests hares (Lepus spp.), Taiwan

David Smiley

Some have suggested that John le Carré unconsciously took David Smiley's surname for that of his hero George Smiley.

Elections in New Zealand

His face is a smiley, and his chest sports the logo of the Electoral Commission.

Gambrell

Marilyn Gambrell, parole officer turned teacher who started the program No More Victims at the M.B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas

Gerard de Jode

Smiley was caught and arrested after a library staff member found his X-Acto knife on the floor.

Harvey Ball

The BBC broadcast a radio documentary on 4 February 2012 called Smiley's People that covered the story of the smiley.

Jeremy Silberston

During the 1980s he was Production Manager of the Nanny Series 1 (1980), Smiley's People (mini TV Series) (1982), Doctor Who The Five Doctors (1983), My Cousin Rachel (mini TV Series) (1983), Bleak House (mini TV Series) (1985), two episodes of EastEnders (1986) and two episodes of Casualty (1988-1989).

Johnny Berthelot

In 2011, Berthelot was elected to succeed fellow Republican Mert Smiley in the legislature; Smiley instead was narrowly elected as the Ascension Parish assessor.

Katie Cruel

Jerry Garcia also performed the song, as have a number of other performers, including Peggy Seeger, Sandy Paton, the New Christy Minstrels (Miss Katy Cruel, 1965), Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Gingerthistle, Linda Thompson, Moira Smiley, Molly Tuttle (The Tuttles and AJ Lee), Joe Dassin and Bert Jansch (with Beth Orton and Devendra Banhart).

Keshia Chanté

On September 26, 2013, BET President Stephen Hill announced on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show that Chante will be a new co host for 106 & Park alongside rapper Bow Wow starting on October 1.

Nicolas Loufrani

They were also published as the official Smiley Dictionary, with each one replacing a pre-existing Emoticon made up of punctuation marks.

Nixon Smiley

His wife Evelyn was an artist, and Smiley was a devoted gardener who volunteered at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, where a Nixon Smiley collection recording his records as Interim Director from 1953 to 1961 (4,000 pages) is kept as well as papers covering his field trips.

Smiley was born in Orange Park, Florida and was raised by his maternal grandparent after losing both parents by the age of 7.

Nunley's Happyland

Nunley's (later called Smiley's) Happyland was an amusement park in the hamlet of Bethpage on Long Island, New York, located at the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24) and Hicksville Road (Route 107).

Ridgetop, Tennessee

Scenes for Hannah Montana: The Movie were filmed at the special events facility "Smiley Hollow".

Sacking of Lawrence

Smiley, Jane. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel (1998; ISBN 0-00-225743-2).

Sarah Smiley

Sarah Smiley has a B.S. in Education from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and a M.A. in Mass Communication fro the University of Maine in Orono.

Smiley Face Killer

Keith Hunter Jesperson - A serial killer who used the smiley face symbol on his letters to the police and prosecutors

Robert Lee Yates - A serial killer who used plastic bags with a smiley face printed on them to cover the heads of his victims

Smiley face murder theory - relates to a theory about smiley faces near the bodies of young men killed by drowning between 1992 and 2008

Smiley Guy Studios

Smiley Guy Studios has created their original work such as Odd Job Jack, The World of Bruce McCall, and Pillars of Freedom while also working with clients on a variety of animated TV, film and new media projects such as Turbo Dogs, Skatoony, "The Dating Guy", Hotbox (TV series), Sons of Butcher (TV series) and The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town.

Smiley v. Citibank

Barbara Smiley, a California woman who had filed a class action against Citibank's South Dakota subsidiary in her state's courts in 1992 alleging that the $15 late fee she was charged for her Citibank Classic card violated California law.

The Honourable Schoolboy

Smiley knows that he will escape China (as Drake did in 1951) on a fishing junk, heading to the southernmost island of Po Toi.

The Smiley Morning Show

A weather forecaster for many stations across Indiana as well as, the Smiley Morning Show.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Control tells Leamas that Smiley had not returned to the Circus after the events of Call for the Dead because of moral qualms about unethical Circus operations.

Who's Real

The single's instrumental was used for a Powerade commercial, and for the Wake Up Calls on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show.


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