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Robert Clifton "Rabbit" Pitts (July 27, 1979 – August 25, 2024) was an American businessman, television personality, and classic car enthusiast. He was best known for co-starring in the Netflix series Tex-Mex Motors, and his storytelling on the YouTube channel VINwiki. He died at the age of 45 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.
Her parents refuse to believe her warning, as Zinnia flirts with the two agents who pose as speedboat salesmen. Discovering the car from Harry to be faulty, Miss Trunchbull locks Matilda in the Chokey as punishment. Miss Honey rescues Matilda, and Matilda's friend Lavender puts a newt in Miss Trunchbull's water jug.
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
Roald Dahl's classic children's book is now a movie musical on Netflix. Here are all the key differences between the original novel, the 1996 film, stage adaptation, and 2022 movie musical.
Similarly shallow, Mr Wormwood—a used-car salesman and television addict—dismisses the child when he realizes she is a girl ("Miracle"). Five years later, Matilda is an avid reader and lives unhappily with her parents. The Wormwoods are oblivious to her genius and frequently mock and verbally abuse her.
This would later inspire Dahl to include a scene in Matilda where Matilda's friend Lavender puts a newt into Miss Trunchbull's water jug. [2] According to Dahl's widow Felicity's annotations in More About Boy the matron at St Peter's preparatory school in Weston-Super-Mare, which Dahl attended, could have been another inspiration as she was a ...
Charles John Mahoney was born in Blackpool, England, on June 20, 1940, [1] the seventh of eight children. His father, Reg, was a baker [2] who played classical piano, and his mother, Margaret (née Watson), was a housewife who loved reading.
The Arizona father who was arrested last week and charged with murder after his 2-year-old daughter died in a hot car had been distracted by video games and "regularly" left his kids alone in the ...