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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer, most famous for his work in the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean, the satirical sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and his voiceover work in Walt Disney's The Lion King. He has been listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians. Atkinson starred in a series of comedy shows for BBC Radio 3 in 1978 called "Atkinson People". It consisted of a series of satirical interviews with fictional great men, who were played by Atkinson himself. The series was written by Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and produced by Griff Rhys Jones. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Mr. Bean Episodes, Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson, Mr. Bean's Holiday, Mr. Bean, Bean. Excerpt:Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie Bean , also known as Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie is a 1997 feature film based on the television series Mr. Bean . It stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role and Peter MacNicol . It was directed by Mel Smith , with whom Atkinson had previously worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News . The film re-used many of the ideas from the original television series, although it was set mainly in California . The tagline is Be afraid. Be very afraid. Mr. Bean has a passport. Plot Mr. Bean, a hopeless guard at the "Royal National Gallery ", London, is sent by his employers, who wish to get rid of him, to America under "Dr. Bean" to oversee the transfer of Whistler's Mother to a Los Angeles art gallery. His visit has been engineered by Los Angeles curator David Langley (Peter MacNicol ), who, impressed by the National Gallery's fabricated praise of Bean, decides to board him into his home. Bean arrives, following police detainment at the airport due to his absurd antics. He wins the affection of David's son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence ), but perturbs wife Alison (Pamela Reed ) and daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey ). Bean's unorthodox arrival at the gallery worries David's colleagues, particularly his boss George Grierson (Harris Yulin ), who sublty warns David that he will be held responsible for Bean's actions at the unveiling of the painting, but David promises he can handle Bean. Upon his return home with Bean, Alison departs for her mother's home with the kids, unwilling to live with Bean. With his family gone, David decides to take Bean on a tour of the Los Angeles art galleries. However, Bean decides that he would rather go to Pacific Park . He lands in polic... ... Read more

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Chapters: Owen Lattimore, Rowan Atkinson, St. Bees School, E. B. Ford, John Hawkesworth, George Algernon West, Leefe Robinson, William Gilpin, John Lindow Calderwood, Joseph Williamson, William Scotter, George Abraham Grierson, Augustus Walker, Alfred Critchley, James Huddart, Charles William Pearson, Edward Christian, Richard Baker, John Fox-Russell, Thomas Tickell, Thomas Postlethwaite, Alan Birkinshaw, Stuart Lancaster, Richard William Leslie Wain, Douglas Ferreira, Robert Scott, Peter Dixon, Thomas Lamplugh, John Peile, Robert Mccance, Anthony Favell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 129. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 May 31, 1989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of Central Asia, especially Mongolia. In the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and then taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963. During World War II he was advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the American government and contributed extensively to the public debate. In the early post-war period of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, American wartime China Hands were accused of being agents of the Soviet Union or under the influence of Marxism. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Lattimore in particular of being "the top Russian espionage agent in the United States." The accusations led to years of Congressional hearings which did not substantiate the charge that Lattimore had been one (nor did wartime intercepted Venona cables refer to him as one). The hearings did document Lattimore's sympathetic statements about Stalin and the Soviet Union, however. Although charges of perjury were dismissed, the controversy put an end to Lattimore's role as a consultant of the United States State Department and e...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=733612 ... Read more

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These six episodes comprise the complete fourth series, set in World War I, of the television comedy series starring Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder. ... Read more

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A series of sketches from the 1970s television comedy series, "Not the 9 O'Clock News". They include "Hedgehog Sandwich" and "I Like Trucking". ... Read more

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