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Arthur "Bugs" Baer (January 9, 1886 - May 17, 1969) was a journalist and humorist. He was known for his clever, sometimes suggestive, quips, such as one praising pitcher Allen Sothoron : "Allan S. Sothoron pitched his initials off today."
Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory. [5]
Arthur "Bugs" Baer (1886–1969), American journalist and humorist; Buddy Baer (1915–1986), American boxer; Byron Baer (1929–2007), American politician; Carl Baer (1918–1996), American basketball player; Clara Gregory Baer (1863–1938), American inventor of netball, Newcomb ball and author of first rules of women's basketball
The book was passed to Arthur's true son, and from Arthur's son came the Knights Templar. Thomas Berger : Arthur Rex (1978) is a tragicomic retelling of the Arthurian legend. Marion Zimmer Bradley : The Mists of Avalon (1983) is the classic of modern reinterpretations of the Arthurian legend through the points of view of powerful women behind ...
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An old, bespectacled gentleman, an open volume in his hands, sits in his library, in a rocking chair, in his stocking feet, comfortably before a warm fire.A clock above the mantle strikes (the face apparently reading about five, but the number of rings indicating eight) and the gentleman, rising, sets the open book down on his seat; yawning and stretching, he makes his way across the room, a ...
Bugs Bunny is reading a book about the Knights of the Round Table when an apple falls and hits him on the head; it transports him back to the time of King Arthur. When he wakes up he encounters a knight named Sir O of Kay, Earl of Watercress, who challenges him to a joust. Bugs trips the knight's horse, sending him flying into a castle tower.
Maurice Sendak's children's book In the Night Kitchen (1970) was an homage to McCay's work, [139] as was Rick Veitch' comic book series Roarin' Rick's Rarebit Fiends (1994–96). [140] Kim Deitch and Simon Deitch's graphic novel The Boulevard of Broken Dreams revolved around a character named Winsor Newton, [d] based on an aged McCay. [141]