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Shields and Yarnell were an American mime team, formed in 1972, consisting of Robert Shields (born March 26, 1951) and Lorene Yarnell (March 21, 1944 – July 29, 2010). Robert Shields Shields was born in Los Angeles and graduated from North Hollywood High School. At the age of 18, while working as a street mime and performing at the Hollywood Wax Museum, he was discovered by Marcel Marceau, who offered him a full scholarship to his school of mime in Paris. His apprenticeship was short-lived, however, as he felt the need to develop his own style and pry mime loose from its artsy pedestal. Shields soon returned to California, working in Union Square, San Francisco. Shields is credited with being the originator of "The Robot" moves early in his career. In 1974, Shields appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation. In 1998, Shields was recruited by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to serve as their Director of Clowning. Lorene Yarnell and Robert Shields met when they worked on Fol-de-Rol, a 1972 Sid and Marty Krofft TV special that was Shields' first TV appearance. Lorene Yarnell Lorene Yarnell (also a native Angeleno) had been a dancer and actress in movies and television shows, including Bye Bye Birdie, Shindig!, and The Carol Burnett Show, as well as off-Broadway musicals, before she met Shields, in San Francisco.She later had speaking guest appearances on The Muppet Show and Wonder Woman, which both also featured Shields. Yarnell later appeared as Claudine in a 1983 outdoor production of Can-Can at The Muny in St. Louis, starring Broadway's Judy Kaye, John Reardon, John Schuck, Beth Leavel and Lawrence Leritz, her dance partner, to excellent reviews. On film, Yarnell played Dot Matrix (body acting, with Joan Rivers performing the voice) in the 1987 Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs. As a duo Shields and Yarnell's specialty was a series of skits called The Clinkers, in which they assumed the personae of robots, with many individual, deliberate motions (as opposed to normal smooth motion) stereotypical of robots and early animatronics, enhanced by their ability to refrain from blinking their eyes for long stretches of time.Their dance and mime performances were featured in 1977 and 1978 on their own CBS television comedy-variety program, The Shields and Yarnell Show. They appeared on 400 national television shows in the United States, including The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Red Skelton Show, The Muppet Show (1979), and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The pair played the "Six-Hundred-Dollar People" created by Dr. Loveless Jr., in the 1979 TV movie The Wild Wild West Revisited. They performed in the unsuccessful Broadway musical production Broadway Follies in New York City, which closed after only one performance, following bad reviews that night. Career highlights included shows for two American Presidents, a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, and a tour of China with comedian Bob Hope.Their television special Toys on the Town, written by Shields, earned an Emmy Award.They won an award as Las Vegas "Entertainer of the Year," dual Georgies for "Rising Stars of the Year" and "Special Attraction of the Year" from the American Guild of Variety Artists. Post-divorce Shields and Yarnell married in 1972 and divorced in 1986. Shields opened a jewelry and art business in Sedona, Arizona, while Yarnell remarried and moved to Norway. They reunited periodically to tour with their act.In 2002, Shields met Laurie Burke, a singer-songwriter in Sedona, and the two were married on September 25, 2006. Burke was diagnosed with a brain tumor the next spring and died on April 25, 2007. Shields married Jennifer Griffiths in December 2009. The couple divorced in 2014. Shields currently resides in Verde Valley, Arizona, where he creates paintings, sculptures, and jewelry design. Death of Lorene Yarnell Yarnell moved to Sandefjord, Norway, in 1998 with her third husband Bjørn Jansson. She died of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm on July 29, 2010, at the age of 66. References External links Robert Shields's website, featuring images from S&Y's career Robert Shields at IMDb Robert Shields at the Internet Broadway Database Lorene Yarnell at IMDb Lorene Yarnell at the Internet Broadway Database Shields & Yarnell at IMDb About Shields and Yarnell (Scott Stander and Associates) Lorene Yarnell at Find a Grave. Discover the Robert Shields popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robert Shields books.

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    Find Fix Finish

    Ben McKelvey

    The new book from the bestselling author of The Commando and Mosul.It was Australia's longest war, and also our most secretive.In the craggy mountains, green belts and digital batt...

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    Lincoln and the Irish

    Niall O'Dowd

    An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War. When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the allIrish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surroundi...

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    William B. Shields and Others, Appellants v. Robert R. Barrow

    United States Supreme Court

    Mr. Benjamin traced the case throughout all its complications, and then made the following points:–– 1. The first question which will arrest the attention of the court, on the face...

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    The Brown Reader

    Judy Sternlight

    “To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” Jeffrey EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University’s...

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    The Abattoir

    Rob Ussery

    When a serial killer stalks the streets of Manhattan's chic meatpacking district, Detective Ellie Danson finds herself assigned to the biggest case of her career.   ...

  • William B. Shields and Others, Appellants v. Robert R. Barrow synopsis, comments

    William B. Shields and Others, Appellants v. Robert R. Barrow

    United States Supreme Court

    Mr. Benjamin traced the case throughout all its complications, and then made the following points:–– 1. The first question which will arrest the attention of the court, on the face...

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    Footnotes

    Peter Fiennes

    A Guardian Travel Book of the YearShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards‘The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.’Peter Fien...