Floyd Patterson went on 4 a.m. runs with two German shepherds named Charlie Brown and Whitey.
Drake resembles Charlie Brown, permanently resigned to all success being fleeting and all pleasure being provisional.
Sixty years after the comic strip debuted, Charlie Brown and the gang are as hot as ever.
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The problem that they are facing is that Americans are not quite as gullible as Charlie Brown.
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And the inevitable result was Charlie Brown lying on his back wondering why he had been so foolish.
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And of course, there can be only one top traditional animation special A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Every year I watch A Charlie Brown Christmas and How The Grinch Stole Christmas with my young daughters.
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"Don't be a blockhead, " Superior Court Judge Dwayne Moring told Robbins, borrowing a line from Charlie Brown's friend Lucy.
On Microsoft, he made funny comments that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, is like Charlie Brown, a perpetual loser.
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Since then, other actors have helped Charlie Brown try to kick footballs, fly kites and ponder the meaning of life.
My favorites are A Charlie Brown Christmas followed closely by How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the 1996 version, of course).
Every year, if my aging memory is correct, Lucy would ask Charlie Brown if he wanted to kick the football.
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Forty years ago tonight, the Peanuts gang made Halloween history with the first broadcast of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
And each time like Charlie Brown fooled by Lucy pulling away the football at the last second the media buy into it.
The former child actor was recently the voice of Charlie Brown for a version of the 1965 animated classic that was made for smartphones.
After the special aired, sympathetic children around the country reportedly sent candy to Charlie Brown he'd only gotten rocks in his trick-or-treat bag.
Here is a simple explanation of QE3: Ben Bernanke is Lucy Van Pelt, the American people are Charlie Brown, and QE3 is the football.
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Other TV movies using Robbins' voice include "Charlie Brown's All Stars!"
The soundtrack to 1970 TV film A Charlie Brown Christmas has also made the list due to its influence on introducing jazz to a wider audience.
The Charlie was not an irreverent reference to Charles de Gaulle, but to the fact that originally it also re-printed the Charlie Brown cartoon from the United States.
Plus, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" delivered its biggest audience in four years 8.1 million viewers and a 2.2 rating in the adult demo, up 22 percent from last year.
Louis plays a lo-fi version of himself, spending his days drifting through New York, brooding, bingeing on ice cream, slumping in wintry playgrounds, like Charlie Brown with a buried temper.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Peter Robbins was a child when he provided the iconic voice for Charlie Brown, still heard every year when the classic 1960s television movies are rebroadcast.
"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is not the most popular entry in the beloved animated franchise (both "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and It's the "Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" deliver bigger numbers).
Robbins starred as Charlie Brown in the 1965 debut "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and held the role in five other television specials, including "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" in 1966.
With the original voice of Charlie Brown taking you through the interactive storybook, with minigames, activities, and nostalgia at every touch, this is a delightful mix of old and new blended together perfectly.
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Journalists who have dealt with Mr McBride and other Gordon Brown advisers, like former spin-doctor Charlie Whelan, say the aborted smear strategy bore the hallmarks of the way Mr Brown's team has dealt with his enemies in the past.
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