Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Immortal Beloved" tries to give us a sexy Beethoven, but the movie's plodding pace brings to mind another German composer. Like Wagner and bad sex, Bernard Rose's latest effort is boring, protracted and strangely anti-climactic.
The story of Beethoven's tormented love life seems to have the potential to titillate. Rose takes his cue from a real love letter written by the composer on his death bed. (Scholars have been unable to determine the true identity of the "immortal beloved" to whom the letter was...
May 8, John Osborne wrote, "is the one unforgettable feast in my calendar." It was the birthday of the playwright's beloved father Thomas, whose early, lonely death would scar young John for life. On May 8, 1956, in London, Osborne's play Look Back in Anger had its premiere...
Newt Gingrich seemed as affable and camera-confident as Pat Sajak or any seasoned TV personality last week when he introduced a colorized version of his beloved Boys Town on the TNT network, intoning that the message was, "You have to love people enough to want to change them, not...
Blue Dog by George Rodrigue and Lawrence S. Freundlich (Viking; $45). The hottest Louisiana purchase since the paperback rights to Anne Rice's vampire novels is a Blue Dog painting by the canny Cajun artist George Rodrigue, whose striking work can be found not only at his New Orleans gallery...