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You'll end up with some wide boy turkey from the superstore, frozen solid, of dubious history.

The final 100 pages of the book has riffs on Africa's Big Man politics, the motormouth chefs who grill meat in Kenyan markets (a particular Kenyan kind of wide boy who cheats his customers, but always with a smile), the petty traders, the freehearted truckers and the "twilight girls," who emerged from the racial straitjacket colonialism had imposed on the nation.

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The Super Game Boy is the successor to Intelligent Systems' Wide Boy 2 (which connected to the Famicom or NES). One difference between the Wide Boy and the Super Game Boy is that the former did not use any part of the Famicom/NES other than the video memory. Even the controller (a single Famicom controller) is hardwired directly into the Wide Boy. The Wide Boy would continue running even if the reset button is held down on the Famicom/NES.

He followed it with another TV play, The Million Pound Note. Assassin for Hire was sold to the movies and the success of this led to offers to do three more scripts starting with Wide Boy. In December 1951 he was reportedly one of the highest paid freelancers in Britain. His radio version of Wide Boy proved controversial when the BBC cancelled it at the last minute.

"Wide Boy" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was his sixth consecutive top 20 hit single, peaking at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. It was followed by "Don Quixote" which was to become the last of his string of top 20 hits on the UK chart. "Wide Boy" also charted highly in Ireland and Australia, peaking at No. 5 and No. 7, respectively.

The Monthly Film Bulletin said the story "has action and movement but is not, as a whole, particularly competent."WIDE BOY Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 19, Iss. 216, (Jan 1, 1952): 82.

Wide Boy is a 1952 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler and Ronald Howard.WIDE BOY Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 19, Iss. 216, (Jan 1, 1952): 82.

Wide Boy was filmed for Australian TV as Bodgie. There were also Australian versions of Who Killed Kovali? and Close to the Roof. In August 1961 Rienits left Australia for London, spending some time in Tahiti.

The Wide Boy 64 AGB, the last version of the Wide Boy 64 that could play Game Boy Advance games. Developed by Intelligent Systems, the Wide-Boy64 is a series of adapters similar to the Super Game Boy that was able to play Game Boy games. The device was never sold in retail to general consumers and was only provided to developers and the gaming press. Two major versions of Wide-Boy64 were released: the GBC, which could play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, and the updated GBA, which could also play Game Boy Advance game paks.

Mooney began his musical career in 1977 with Anglo-Irish punk band The European Cowards, in collaboration with John Keogh and rebel rouser John Herlihy. He was then enlisted as the bass player for Adam and the Ants, between 1980 and 1981, appearing on the album Kings of the Wild Frontier. After leaving the band because of personal conflict and creative differences, he formed the band Wide Boy Awake with best friend John Keogh, Harley Price and Horace Carter Allan. Wide Boy Awake released two EPs in the UK, including songs "Chicken Outlaw", "Billy Hyena", "Bona Venture" and "Slang Teacher", some of which appear on 1980s various-artists compilations.

Anglo-Amalgamated began to produce half hour featurettes at a cost of £10,000 then moved into features. Their early films included Ghost Ship (1952), Crow Hollow (1952), and Wide Boy (1952). They started to make films with American stars such as Street of Shadows (1953) which had Cesar Romero. They also had success with comedies such as Glad Tidings (1953).

Swash has commented, "I'm pleased it happened that way, I have done it on my own merit rather than coming in as part of a family. It's a bit more special." The BBC has described Mickey as a "lovable character" and "a happy-go-lucky wide boy." They continued, "Mickey is always on the look-out for a scam and a chance to make some easy money".

The band were managed by Mooney's then-wife Pamela Rooke. "Billy Hyena" was accompanied by a music video directed by Derek Jarman. Wide Boy Awake disbanded soon after without releasing a full album. During this period, Mooney guested on Sinéad O'Connor's album The Lion and the Cobra, writing and playing guitar on one track "Just Call Me Joe", featuring Leslie Winer on backup vocals.

This starred David Barry, Peter Cleall and Carol Hawkins. Making his debut in series 1, George Baker made such an impression as a wide-boy villain that the prequel Bowler was launched in 1973. This lasted for one series and co-starred Fred Beauman, Renny Lister and Gretchen Franklin. In the early to mid-1970s, Esmonde and Larbey produced several lesser-known comedies, sometimes lasting no longer than a pilot.

In 1991, Gaffney played the Boy (alternating with another actor) in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the West End, alongside Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. In November 2006, Gaffney appeared as a guest star on the long-running ITV serial drama The Bill. Gaffney played Gavin Josef, a cocky wide-boy who was connected to an assault investigation."Gaffney, Robson and Stapleton to guest on 'The Bill'" , DigitalSpy.co.

That same year, Coleman released an album titled Jonathan Coleman's Polka Project. A single from that release, "Busy Bleeding", under the pseudonym Wide Boy Youth, peaked at 53 on the ARIA Charts (at the time, compiled using the Kent Music Report). In 1988 he had a part in the Australian movie Young Einstein. In 1988 Jono and Dano began hosting a new music television programme on The Seven Network.

Rick Lloyd is a British composer and musical director best known as a member of the original Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's "Only You". Although the Flying Pickets are known for making a cappella covers of other people's songs, the original songs on their 1984 album Lost Boys were written by Rick Lloyd including the track "Wide Boy".

He and Tibbs formed the short-lived duo Merrick and Tibbs, which released one single in the early 1980s. Mooney later formed Wide Boy Awake with Jordan, and Max with Ashman. Barbe, Ashman and Gorman's post Ants band Bow Wow Wow eventually scored two UK Top 10 hits. The trio later formed Chiefs of Relief and released an album on Sire Records by which point only Ashman remained.

The title-track, released in November 1984, proved to be his third international hit single, reaching No. 3 in the UK and Ireland, and No. 6 in New Zealand. The album also spawned two more UK Top 10 hits, "Wide Boy" and "Don Quixote", as it went multi-platinum. During this time, Kershaw toured extensively with his backing band the Krew, consisting of Keith Airey, Tim Moore, Mark Price and Dennis Smith.Nik Kershaw. Nme.

Although the singles "Speedway" and "Hit Records" received some airplay, the band failed to garner any commercial success. Their second album, The Great Artiste, also sold poorly. Nevertheless the band developed a solid live reputation on the London pub rock scene, with an eclectic mixture of original material and cover versions, fronted by Paul Shuttleworth's "wide boy" persona. In 1976 they signed with the CBS label, and recorded their third album, The Golden Mile, with record producer Mike Batt.

As a refugee and foreigner George struggles to find gainful employment and starts doing rent on the streets to make ends meet. Maggie's boyfriend, Tom, is a Black Market wide boy who fixes himself up as Maggie and George's agent. He manages to get them an audition at a new night club owned by Sir Frank Worthington-Blythe, a wealthy socialite who was invalided out of the RAF after being awarded for bravery. Sir Frank is also deeply closeted.

Hughes's first film as director was the "B" movie Wide Boy (1952). He did a short feature, The Drayton Case (1953), which became the first of Anglo- Amalgamated's Scotland Yard film series (1953-61), and several of the later installments including The Dark Stairway (1953) and Murder Anonymous (1955). He did Black 13 (1954) then made The House Across the Lake (1954) for Hammer Films, based on Hughes' own novel. He made The Brain Machine (1955), Little Red Monkey (1955), and Confession (1955).

Before the Game Boy Player, Nintendo's partner Intelligent Systems made the Wide Boy 64 AGB, a Game Boy Advance player that worked through an N64. This developer tool was later turned into the Game Boy Player and sold to consumers. The Game Boy Player is available in Indigo, Black, Spice, or Platinum in Japan; Black in North America and Europe and Black and Indigo in Australia. A special Game Boy Player for the Panasonic Q (SH-GB10-H) was released because the Q's legs are oriented differently from the original GameCube's.

"Don Quixote" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw from his 1984 studio album The Riddle. Released in August 1985 as the final single from that album, it reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1985, and became Kershaw's seventh (and last) consecutive UK top 20 hit single. A month before "Don Quixote" was released as a single, it was the second of four songs played by Kershaw at Live Aid. The others were previous singles "The Riddle", "Wouldn't It Be Good" and "Wide Boy".

Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Kershaw came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist. He released eight singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the decade, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", "Dancing Girls", "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "Human Racing", "The Riddle", "Wide Boy", "Don Quixote" and "When a Heart Beats". His 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 beat all other solo artists.

Like the planned album and Save The Gorillas, this was postponed indefinitely and fell by the wayside (before any tickets went on sale) once Adam had been sectioned. One project from this period, however, which did go all the way to release was a guest appearance on an EP, Mike's Bikes by former Ants bassist Kevin Mooney's new band, the Lavender Pill Mob, on Mooney's own label Le Coq Musique. Ant provided lead vocals for Black Pirates, a reworking of the song Chicken Outlaw by Mooney's earlier band Wide Boy Awake, which was inspired by Mooney's departure from the Ants.

Half-brothers Régis (Fabrice Eboue) and Joel (Thomas Tgijol) Grosdésir are called to their estranged father's deathbed in the French Antilles. He has nothing to bequeath them but the family treasure - the certificate of manumission that freed their common ancestor from slavery. Unfortunately wide boy Régis and Uncle Tom race traitor Joel are observed by their aunt (Isabel del Carmen Solar Montalvo) as they tear the precious document up and mock it. She is enraged and casts a spell to send them back to the 18th century, where they are immediately picked up and sold as slaves.

Making his first appearance in 1976 as a Cockney businessman with an eye for the ladies, Mike was the son of an occasional character, Frank "Frankie" Baldwin, a former docker and Cockney wide boy. He is said to have been introduced following pressure from Thames Television and Southern Television to introduce a character from the South of England, as the series' ratings fell in the mid-1970s especially in those regions. Mike Baldwin became chiefly known for his ruthlessness in business and his string of ruined relationships. During his time on the show, Mike had 25 girlfriends and four wives.

Field was unusual among comedy performers of the day, as his act was a multitude of characters and impersonations, at a time when most variety (vaudeville) acts were "one trick ponies". Despite this comedic and acting flair, it was not until he had spent decades touring provincial music halls that Field finally broke into the big time, appearing in London's West End as Slasher Green, the Cockney "wide boy" or "spiv". He became an "overnight" star. In Strike a New Note (1943), Strike it Again (1944) and Piccadilly Hayride (1946), he had his audiences roaring with laughter.

Commenting on Steph's death she stated: "No wonder that, gazing upon his face, she realised she was better off burning to death than enduring one more day staring at him." She praised Paul Marquess' cast cull of 2010, but stated that Gilly is "still hanging around like that bit of dog mess you can’t get out of the grooves in your trainers." She also opined: "A damp drizzle of a character, Gilly hasn’t worked as Rhys’s wide boy sidekick, hasn’t worked as a loved-up hippy, hasn’t worked as a doting husband, doesn’t work on any level." Also stating she wanted Hollyoaks serial killer Silas Blissett (Jeff Rawle) to kill him.

However, the main role of the Transfer Pak was to transfer data from Game Boy Color to Nintendo 64 games, not to play games. The Wide-Boy64 was released for the N64 in two major versions, the CGB version which allowed Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles to be played on a television, and the AGB version which also allowed Game Boy Advance games to be played. It cost $1400, and like the original Wide Boy, it was only available to developers and the gaming press. These devices were used to take screenshots of Nintendo handheld video games to be in retail media. The GB Hunter is one of two Nintendo 64 items released by EMS Production Ltd.

She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions and often performed the song live with them from mid-1977 up to May 1978 when she left the band. In the 1980s, she managed the band Wide Boy Awake, in which her then-husband Kevin Mooney was a guitarist. Mooney had previously been a bassist of Adam and the Ants.Magazine. The World's Forgotten Boy She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate (named after the drug amyl nitrite).

One project from this period, however, which did go all the way to release was a guest appearance on an EP, Mike's Bikes by former Ants bassist Kevin Mooney's new band, the Lavender Pill Mob, on Mooney's own label Le Coq Musique. Ant provided lead vocals for Black Pirates, a reworking of the song Chicken Outlaw by Mooney's earlier band Wide Boy Awake, inspired by Mooney's departure from the Ants. In 2003, the television special titled The Madness of Prince Charming was aired in the UK documenting Ant's career and his struggle with mental illness (he was diagnosed as suffering with bipolar disorder). In September 2006, he published his autobiography, Stand & Deliver.

In the anime series Robin Hood no Daibōken, Much (voiced by Mayumi Tanaka) is a child and Little John's right-hand man as part of a group of bandits who were forced to hide out in Sherwood Forest to avoid forced labour. In the British 1991 adaptation Robin Hood the character is played by Danny Webb and credited as "Mulch the Miller". He was also portrayed by Jack Wild in the Academy Award–nominated Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). In the children's comedy Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–94) the character is parodied as a "wide boy" (one who lives by wit and guile) called Much the Mini-Mart Manager's Son.

The Game Boy had twice as many tiles as could fit in the Famicom/NES's video memory, so the Wide Boy had to refresh the Famicom/NES's video memory halfway down the screen. Camerica had a Game Boy to NES adaptor developed by Biederman Design Labs, which appeared similar to the Super Game Boy. The Super Game Boy was followed by the Transfer Pak for the Nintendo 64, which allowed one to play the six (seven in Japan) Game Boy Color Pokémon titles in Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2 in a Super Game Boy-like fashion, complete with the Super Game Boy enhanced borders and palettes. The games were played via the use of a software emulator on the Nintendo 64.

In 1981, Jason found his most popular role, Del Boy Trotter in the BBC situation comedy Only Fools and Horses, created by John Sullivan. Del-Boy is a wide-boy who makes a dubious living in Peckham, south London, trading in shoddy, stolen, and counterfeit goods. He is assisted by his brother Rodney (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Grandad (played by Lennard Pearce) and, in later episodes, Uncle Albert (played by Buster Merryfield). In 1989 Jason starred as Ted Simcock in the ITV drama series A Bit of a Do, aired from January to December. In 1999, Jason starred as Captain Frank Beck in BBC's feature-length drama All the King's Men about the Sandringham regiment lost in World War I. He earned acclaim for a string of straight roles.

"Tropical Chancer" was written by Elly Jackson, Ian Sherwin and Jeff Bhasker, and produced by Sherwin and Jackson. It contains a sample of "My Jamaican Guy" as written and performed by Grace Jones, who is credited as one of the co-writers, as well as a sample from "Stop" originally performed by B.W.H., an Italian project fronted by Stefano Zito. "Tropical Chancer" is a disco and electro-calypso track that incorporates elements of reggae and dancehall, set against a Nile Rodgers-inspired funk guitar and echoing steel drums. The song tells the story of a Caribbean wide boy that Jackson has known for many years, whom she describes as the tropical version of Del Boy, a character from the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses played by David Jason.

Norton won it from a large field of auditioning actresses. Blondie went to air in November 1951, but its run was not to be a long one, as the threat of legal action from the United States brought it to an abrupt end. Norton did a good deal of radio work for the ABC: Anna in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy; Letta in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Edward Howell; roles in Rex Rienits' Wide Boy, Elmer Rice's Counselor-at-Law, and the serial Stranger Come In, written and produced by Max Afford. On stage she played Olive in John Van Druten's The Voice Of The Turtle produced by Sydney John Kay for the Mercury Theater, and at the Metropolitan Theater she was in the satirical revue Merry-Go-Round, produced by Bill Orr, the forerunner of the Phillip Street Revues.

She was by now one of the busiest young actors in Britain. Author: Cecil Wilson Date: Thursday, 11 November 1948 Publication: Daily Mail (London, England) Issue: 16379 p 2 Shaw played support in some thrillers - Waterfront (1950) , The Woman in Question (1950) - before returning to leads in Pool of London (1951) with Bonar Colleano. Her marriage to Albert Lieven, with whom she had a daughter, ended in divorce in 1953, and in 1954, she married Colleano. "Colleano, British Actor, Weds", New York Times 11 January 1954: 19. Shaw began to appear on television in One Man's Family (1951) and a BBC version of The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1951).No Surprises — But Still a Favourite Author: J. Stubbs Walker Date: Monday, 28 May 1951 Publication: Daily Mail (London, England) Issue: 17165 p 2 She was the female lead in some Bs: There Is Another Sun (1951), Wide Boy (1952), A Killer Walks (1952), The Large Rope (1953), AND Small Town Story (1953).