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4 unusual facts about Romance


Anti-romance

J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is probably the most famous and successful anti-romance, though there are many others, including Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, "Araby" by James Joyce and Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

Romance: En Vivo

Romance: En Vivo is a VHS video from Mexican singer Luis Miguel that was recorded in 1992 during the concert tour called Tour Romance (also known as Gira Romance ) that Luis Miguel perform in various places like Caracas, Venezuela, in the Circus Maximus Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a concert in Seville, Spain, and in the National Auditorium in Mexico City, where he broke the World Record by selling the 10,000 tickets for his only show in 3 hours.

From the show in the National Auditorium was recorded an EP that was released as América & En Vivo.

Romance/Romance

Summer Share, the second act based on Jules Renard's 1898 play Le pain de ménage, is updated to the late 1980s and set in The Hamptons, where two married couples in their thirties are spending the season in a rented cottage.


A Prophetic Romance

A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth is an 1896 utopian novel written by John McCoy, and published pseudonymously as the work of "The Lord Commissioner," the narrator of the tale.

Albert Edward Anson

The play Romance by Edward Sheldon, in which Anson played Cornelius van Tuyl, ran for 160 performances in 1913 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, and was revived in 1921 at the Playhouse Theatre where it ran for 106 performances.

Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire

The duke followed the family tradition of owning racehorses, the most famous of which was Park Top, the subject of the duke's first published book, A Romance of The Turf: Park Top, which was published in 1976.

Anibal de Mar

Among other films he participated on were "Romance Musical" with the contribution of great actor Otto Sirgo, Rosita Fornes and the great actress Enriqueta Sierra, Elsa Valladares, Olga Chorens, Normita Suarez y Rita Montaner, "Hitler soy yo"

Aurélien Wiik

Accompanied by the actress Juliette Dol (coincidentally, his costar in the play L'Autre), Wiik attended the screening of Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, sparking rumors of romance between the pair.

Baharon

Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka, 1977 Indian Bollywood romance film drama directed by J. Om Prakash

Bevis of Hampton

Such writers as Derzhavin and Pushkin praised Bovas literary value; the latter used some elements of the Povest' in his fairy tales and attempted to write a fantasy poem based on the romance.

Bob Hogue

The novel is historical fiction, mystery, and romance set in Kailua, Oahu around the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Boussac, Creuse

George Sand (1804–1878), set her romance Jeanne here in 1836.

Carl Marzani

Marzani was one of the interviewees in Vivian Gornick's 1977 book, The romance of American communism.

Eaton, Ohio

Jane LeCompte - Novelist who has written over 20 Romance novels under the name Jane Ashford

Edwin Cranston

His dissertation, a translation of and commentary on the Izumi Shikibu diary, was published in 1969 in the Harvard-Yenching Monograph series as The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court and remains the authoritative English version.

Frank Forest

He spent twelve years performing leading tenor roles in opera houses all over Europe and acted in several films, including I'll Take Romance along with American soprano and actress Grace Moore in 1937.

Gaston Paris

He contributed largely to the Histoire littéraire de la France, and with Paul Meyer published Romania, a journal devoted to the study of Romance literature.

George Nicolescu

In 1972 he gained admission to the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romance Languages, French-Romanian section.

Giulia Grisi

She married an English gentleman, Lord Pearse and in 1910 published the book The Romance of a Great Singer.

Glenn Monroig

He had a long romance with Camille Carrion and became a second father to Carrion's daughter, Paloma Suau.

Hans Robert Jauss

It was in these years (1959–1962) that Jauss, along with Erich Köhler, founded a series of medieval texts entitled Grundriß der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters (Outline of Romance Literatures of the Middle Ages).

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

Sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco, he is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based.

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More is a 1944 American comedy/romance film featuring Robert Mitchum, and was the final film directed by the German-American director Joe May.

Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas

No actual romance ever existed between him and Pocahontas, who married John Rolfe.

Laurie baronets

The Scottish song Annie Laurie is about Annie, the daughter of the first Baronet, and her romance with William Douglas.

Le Meravigliose avventure di Guerrin Meschino

It is based in part on the 1410 chivalric romance Il Guerrin Meschino.

Lung Leg

Nick Zedd wrote in his autobiography, Totem of the Depraved, that she relocated to Minneapolis, then moved back to New York City after a short romance with German musician Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

MacKinlay

Leila Mackinlay (1910–1996), British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979

Mary Skrenes

Skrenes got her first professional work for DC Comics in the early 1970s, writing horror and romance stories under the tutelage of editor Dorothy Woolfolk.

Mavra

The opera has been characterised as both an homage to Russian writers, and a satire of bourgeois manners and the Romeo and Juliet subgenre of romance.

Metro Riots

Their song "Modern Romance" is featured heavily in the 2006 video game Urban Chaos: Riot Response for Xbox and PlayStation 2.

My Theodosia

The book focuses on the life of Theodosia: her marriage to Joseph Alston; her suggested romance with Meriwether Lewis; and ultimately her unwavering devotion to her father Aaron Burr, and his devotion to her.

Passion and Purity

The book recounts Elliot's friendship and romance with missionary Jim Elliot, beginning in the 1940s and ending with his death in 1956.

Pattaya Kelappanum Pandiya

The plot revolves around a mini bus driver Velpandiyan (played by Vidharth) and a conductor (played by Soori) and how romance evolves with Kanmani in the bus.

Pauline Hopkins

Hopkins's novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (with an introduction by Richard Yarborough) was reprinted as a part of this series.

Phyllis Summers

Phyllis' first romance on the soap opera was with Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), whom she conned into believing he had fathered a child with her.

Rachel Feldman

As a screenwriter, she written the television films Post Modern Romance (1993), She's No Angel (2001) starring Tracey Gold, Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (2005) starring Christine Baranski and Love Notes (2007) starring Laura Leighton.

Richard Head

Its tales of drastic adventures were based on the model of Spanish rogue stories (such as Lazarillo de Tormes 1554), which were fashionable due to the contemporary publication of Scarron's Roman Comique (or Comical Romance, so the English title which established the genre), and savoury with the events Head could claim to have based on his personal experience.

Rodrigo Cuadra

As musician underlined by not maintaining low as accompanying instrument, but expands so that you get to take center stage in songs like "Expelido del vientre" and "Alrededores del templo" of Bajo una luna Cámbrica, "Romance", the self-titled album and "Transformed in cocodrile" of Big Monster Aventura.

Romancecar

Other railroad companies also used "romance cars" or "romance seats" (a Japanese portmanteau for "loveseat") for their special accommodation passenger cars, but Odakyu holds the trademark for the term "Romancecar".

Sarah Sands

In August 2006, Sands wrote an article about the Emo musical genre, which stated that Green Day and My Chemical Romance encourage self-harm among teenagers, despite Green Day having tenuous links to the emo genre and My Chemical Romance advising their fans not to commit self-harm.

Show People

Though one of the great comic talents of her day, featured in many of the decade's successful comedies, such as Tillie the Toiler (1927), she too often appeared in extravagant, costly period romance films at the behest of her newspaper tycoon lover William Randolph Hearst, who supposedly enjoyed seeing his mistress in fancy costume.

Sophie McShera

Their business, That Sweet Feeling, specialises in jars of romance-themed confectionery, especially popular on St. Valentine's Days.

Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film, a costume drama based on the French 12th century medieval romance (a true story) of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade.

Syd Butler

In November 2012, it was announced that he, Les Savy Fav bandmate Seth, and Amy Carlson had formed Office Romance and their EP, I Love The Holidays, would be out on December 11, 2012, via Frenchkiss.

The Dot and the Line

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (ISBN 1-58717-066-3) is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963.

The Long Gray Line

West Point staffer Marty Maher (b. 1876), who came there from Tipperary as a waiter, enlisted in 1898, instructed several generations of plebes in boxing, swimming and tradition, stayed at West Point all his life, his romance and marriage to Mary O'Donnell, and his declining years after her death (1948).

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

Vanessa Gold

Concurrent to their romance, which was extended to span Lucker's increased tenure, Vanessa separates from her husband Harry (Linal Haft), and reveals that he is not the father of her teenage daughter Jodie (Kylie Babbington).

Vitorino Nemésio

Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (Praia da Vitória, December 19, 1901 – Lisbon, February 20, 1978) was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his romance Mau Tempo No Canal, as well as being a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.

Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards

In 2006, voters chose Eric Millikin's horror/romance comic Eric Monster Millikin (then called Fetus-X) as one of the top five finalists for the "Outstanding Romance Comic" award; however, it was disqualified by the awards' executive committee.

Young Romance

Launched with a September 1947 cover date, the Prize Comics title Young Romance signaled its distinction from traditional superhero and genre comics with a cover banner stating the series was "designed for the more adult readers of comics".


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