Danny Glover: …latter two were produced by Louverture Films, a production company cofounded by Glover. He was an associate producer of the Louverture release Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a mystical drama from Thailand that won the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes film festival. Glover served as a…

Michel del Castillo: His many subsequent works include Les Louves de l’Escurial (1964; “The She-Wolves of the Escorial”), Gerardo Laïn (1967; The Seminarian), Le Silence des pierres (1975; “The Silence of Stones”), Le Sortilege espagnol (1977; “Spanish Sorcery”), Les Cyprès meurent en Italie (1979; “The Cypresses Die in Italy”), La

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Jean Louvet was a Belgian playwright whose main subject was the lives and sufferings of the working class. Louvet was the son of a miner. As a young man, he was influenced by Existentialism, and left-wing politics led him into work in the theatre. Strongly autobiographical, his work goes beyond

Jean-Baptiste Louvet was a French literary figure prominent as a Girondin during the Revolution. While working as a bookseller, Louvet won fame as the author of a licentious novel published from 1786 to 1791; the work was reprinted many times as Les Amours (or, in some editions, Les Aventures) du

the Louvin Brothers, were an American country music vocal duo of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, remembered for their simple but pure gospel-tinged style and distinctive harmonies. The members were Ira Louvin (original name Ira Lonnie Loudermilk; b. April 21, 1924, Henagar, Alabama, U.S.—d. June 20,

the Louvin Brothers: The members were Ira Louvin (original name Ira Lonnie Loudermilk; b. April 21, 1924, Henagar, Alabama, U.S.—d. June 20, 1965, Williamsburg, Missouri) and Charlie Louvin (original name Charlie Elzer Loudermilk; b. July 7, 1927, Henagar, Alabama—d. January 26, 2011, Wartrace, Tennessee).

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Abu Dhabi: …a decade of delays, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opened in 2017 in a building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. It was the first of the planned institutions to be completed. Despite provoking a great deal of debate, the arrangement underscored the emirate’s growing determination to draw and foster an…

Louvre, national museum and art gallery of France, housed in part of a large palace in Paris that was built on the right-bank site of the 12th-century fortress of Philip Augustus. It is the world’s most-visited art museum, with a collection that spans work from ancient civilizations to the mid-19th

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South African literature: In Afrikaans: …followed by his elder brother, N.P. van Wyk Louw, the principal creative artist and theoretician of the new movement. Van Wyk Louw achieved mastery in every form, writing the finest odes, sonnets, modern ballads, and love lyrics in Afrikaans. His dramatic monologue “Die Hond van God” (1942; “The Hound of…

South African literature: In Afrikaans: …of the ’30s”), begun by W.E.G. Louw with Die ryke dwaas (1934; “The Rich Fool”). This sensitive poet, with his searing conflicts between God and Eros, exemplified qualities soon to become the new generation’s hallmark. He was followed by his elder brother, N.P. van Wyk Louw, the principal creative artist…

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Luvale, Bantu-speaking people of northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. In terms of history, language, material culture, and religion, the Luvale are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, who extend northward into southern Congo (Kinshasa). They are also culturally similar

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was a Scottish Jacobite, chief of clan Fraser, noted for his violent feuds and changes of allegiance. Grandson of the 7th Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser persuaded the weak 9th Lord Lovat to settle the liferent of his estates on his father in 1696, but the destination of the

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classical scholarship: The later Middle Ages: …of scholars in Padua around Lovato Lovati (1241–1309) and Albertino Mussato (1261–1329) were active humanists. Lovato read Lucretius and Catullus, studied Seneca’s tragedies in the famous Codex Etruscus, and found and read some of the lost books of Livy. Both men wrote Latin poetry, Mussato composing a Senecan tragedy, the…

Cetinje: …and at the foot of Mount Lovćen (5,738 feet [1,749 metres]). The city’s name derives from the river, the Cetina (or Cetinja). The monastery at Cetinje became the seat of the prince-bishops, or vladike, theocratic rulers of Montenegro, from 1516 to 1851. The Montenegrins constantly battled the Turks and Albanians,…

Toni Morrison: …utopian community in Oklahoma, and Love (2003), an intricate family story that reveals the myriad facets of love and its ostensible opposite. A Mercy (2008) deals with slavery in 17th-century America. In the redemptive Home (2012), a traumatized Korean War veteran encounters racism after returning home and later overcomes apathy…

Love, American rock group formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s that was more popular with critics than with record buyers. The original members were Arthur Lee (b. 1945, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—d. Aug. 3, 2006, Memphis), Bryan MacLean (b. 1947, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—d. Dec. 25, 1998), John

love, an emotion characterized by strong feelings of affection for another arising out of kinship, companionship, admiration, or benevolence. In a related sense, “love” designates a benevolent concern for the good or welfare of others. The term is also used to refer to sexual attraction or erotic

language: Jargon: …tennis scores use the sequence love, 15, 30, 40, and game; cricketers verbally appeal to the umpire when a batsman may be out by calling “How’s that?” and the ways of being out are designated by stereotypes, “run out,” “leg before wicket,” “stumped,” and so forth.

Roddy Doyle: Other writings: Doyle’s next novel, Love (2020), follows two old friends as they spend a night drinking and looking back at their lives.

Elizabeth Olsen: Wind River and Love & Death: …2023 Olsen appeared in HBO’s Love & Death. The true-crime miniseries, set in the 1980s, centers on housewife Candy Montgomery, who had an affair with the husband (played by Jesse Plemons) of friend Betty Gore. Montgomery later killed Gore with an ax, alleging self-defense. The drama, which was created by…

Paul Giamatti: … in the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.

Hugh Grant: …adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel; Love Actually (2003); and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2007 Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore as an aging pop star in Music and Lyrics. He next appeared in Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), a comedy about a married couple who…

Warren Beatty: …about the infamous gangster, and Love Affair (1994), both costarring Annette Bening, whom Beatty married in 1992—an act that tempered somewhat Beatty’s long-standing playboy reputation. In 1998 he cowrote, directed, and starred in Bulworth, playing a U.S. senator whose disillusionment with the political system is fueled by his immersion in…

Rudolph Maté: (1936), Stella Dallas (1937), Love Affair (1939), My Favorite Wife (1940), and Gilda (1946).

George Cukor: Last films: Only Love Among the Ruins (1975), a made-for-television romantic comedy shot in England with Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, and The Corn Is Green (1979), also made for television, with Katharine Hepburn in the role of a spinster schoolteacher in Wales, were on par with Cukor’s earlier…

Joan Armatrading: …the top 10 single “Love and Affection.” Armatrading’s romantic, bittersweet lyrics conveyed in her rounded, expressive voice dominated a series of best-selling albums, namely Show Some Emotion (1977), To the Limit (1978), Me Myself I (1980), and Walk Under Ladders (1981). Such recordings featured a beguiling blend of

Lina Wertmüller: …Film d’amore e d’anarchia… (1973; Love and Anarchy), about an anarchist torn between his plot to assassinate Benito Mussolini and his love for a prostitute who has given him shelter in a Rome brothel. Wertmüller’s two finest films are Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (1974; Swept Away),…

Charles Bronson: …later films were action-thrillers, including Love and Bullets (1979), The Evil That Men Do (1984), and Murphy’s Law (1986). In other movies he revealed humanity and tenderness beneath the toughness, as in Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner (1991) and the TV movie Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991).

Llewelyn Powys: …an exploration of spirituality; and Love and Death (1939), a partly fictionalized account of and reflection on a love affair.

Woody Allen: The 1970s: Love and Death (1975), a parody of Leo Tolstoy’s fiction, Sergey Eisenstein’s filmmaking, and a clutch of other landmarks of Russian culture, was less universally applauded.

American literature: Literary and social criticism: …Leslie Fiedler, as, for example, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), was marked by its provocative application of Freudian ideas to American literature. In his later work he turned to popular culture as a source of revealing social and psychological patterns. A more-subtle Freudian, Lionel Trilling, in The…

John Hurt: …young male movie idol in Love and Death on Long Island (1997). Hurt also enjoyed smaller parts in such films as The Field (1990), a drama set in an Irish village, and Rob Roy (1995), about the Scottish outlaw. On television he appeared as the title character in the children’s…

Alison Lurie: …all set in academia, include Love and Friendship (1962), The Nowhere City (1965), Imaginary Friends (1967; television miniseries 1987), Real People (1969), Only Children (1979), and The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988). A collection of ghost stories, Women and Ghosts

Ivan Klíma: …and Láska a smetí (1988; Love and Garbage), the narrator of which is a banned Czech writer who sweeps streets for a living while meditating on Franz Kafka and other momentous matters. Klíma’s later fiction included Čekání na tmu, čekání na světlo (1993; Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the…

motivation: Genetic contributions: In a book entitled Love and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns, he summarized many years of cross-cultural research on human genetic behaviour patterns. Interestingly, research on the facial expressions associated with emotion has provided some support for the existence of innate motivations in humans.

Caryl Churchill: Her subsequent works included Love and Information (2012), Escaped Alone (2016), and the short play What If If Only (2021).

H.G. Wells: Early writings: …middle-class life, most notably in Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). In these novels, and in Tono-Bungay (1909), he drew on memories of his own earlier life, and, through the thoughts of inarticulate yet often ambitious…

Aleksandar Hemon: He followed this with Love and Obstacles (2009), a collection of short stories narrated by a young man who leaves Sarajevo for the United States when war breaks out in his home country. The Making of Zombie Wars (2015) chronicles the quotidian difficulties of a workaday writer attempting to…

D.M. Thomas: …collections, including The Shaft (1973), Love and Other Deaths (1975), and The Honeymoon Voyage (1978), won praise for their examinations of death, loss, and aspects of sexuality. For Mrs. English and Other Women (2014), Thomas drew inspiration from his own life. Vintage Ghosts (2012) is a verse novel.

Dawn French: …Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Love and Other Disasters (2006), and provided the voice for characters in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) and Coraline (2009). She had a small role in, and was an executive producer of, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016). In…

Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1970s: Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) was a smaller, less-commercial enterprise, with Maggie Smith and Timothy Bottoms as a couple involved in a September-May romance.

St. John Paul II: Decision to join the priesthood: …his first book of nonfiction, Love and Responsibility (1960), an exploration of the several graces available in conjugal sexual relationships. The work was considered radical by those who held the traditional church view that sex was solely for the purpose of procreation.

William Trevor: His last novel, Love and Summer, was published in 2009.

Dante: Dante’s intellectual development and public career: …gentil sono una cosa” (“Love and the Noble Heart Are the Same Thing”), the first line of which is clearly an adaptation of Guinizelli’s “Al cor gentil ripara sempre amore” (“In Every Noble Heart Love Finds Its Home”). This was the beginning of Dante’s association with a new poetic…

Bob Dylan: …Dylan’s way in 2002, for Love and Theft (2001).

Brad Paisley: …in the Trunk (2014) and Love and War (2017) were both solid country albums, the latter featuring duets with Mick Jagger and John Fogerty.

Jean-Pierre Léaud: …L’Amour à vingt ans (1962; Love at Twenty), Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), Domicile conjugale (1970; Bed and Board), and L’Amour en fuite (1979; Love on the Run). Léaud was perfectly suited to play the part of Doinel, an engaging and innocent young man who is not particularly well equipped…

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American Broadcasting Company: Focus on television: …dramatic series (Charlie’s Angels [1976–81], The Love Boat [1977– 86], and Fantasy Island [1978–84]), Silverman rapidly elevated ABC to the coveted number one slot. Perhaps to counteract criticism of its lowbrow entertainment fare, the network offered a number of prestige projects during the Silverman years, notably the blockbuster miniseries Roots…

The Love Bug, American live-action comedy film, coproduced by Disney and released in 1968, that centred on “Herbie,” a Volkswagen Beetle that has human qualities. The film spawned a loyal fan movement and numerous sequels. Disney regular Dean Jones played Jim Douglas, a down-and-out race car driver

Nirvana: …recorded their first single, “Love Buzz” (1988), and album, Bleach (1989), for Sub Pop, an independent record company in Seattle. They refined this mix of 1960s-style pop and 1970s heavy metal–hard rock on their first album for a major label, Geffen; Nevermind, featuring the anthemic hit “Smells Like Teen…

Love Canal, neighbourhood in Niagara Falls, New York, U.S., that was the site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history. The Love Canal area was originally the site of an abandoned canal that became a dumping ground for nearly 22,000 tons of chemical waste

Jack Conway: The 1940s: Conway had another hit with Love Crazy (1941), a deft comedy about a couple (Powell and Loy) whose marriage becomes strained after the wife’s mother comes for a visit. Honky Tonk (1941) cast Gable as a gambler romancing a judge’s daughter (Lana Turner), and Powell and Lamarr played newlyweds whose…

Sade: In 1992 Sade released Love Deluxe, which featured the Grammy-winning single “No Ordinary Love.” After a subsequent world tour, Sade enjoyed life away from the limelight. She became a mother, while other members of her band recorded separately as Sweetback. The band reunited to produce the critically acclaimed Lovers…

Michelle Pfeiffer: …Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Love Field (1992).

William Congreve: Literary career: Love for Love almost repeated the success of his first play. Performed in April 1695, it was the first production staged for the new theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which was opened after protracted crises in the old Theatre Royal, complicated by quarrels among the…

Tony Bennett: Cross-generational collaborations: …subsequently released their second collaboration, Love for Sale (2021), a collection of Cole Porter songs; it earned the duo another Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album. To promote the recording, they performed two shows in 2021 that were Bennett’s last public concerts.

Cole Porter: …One of Those Things,” “Love for Sale,” “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” “Too Darn Hot,” “It’s Delovely,” “I Concentrate on You,” “Always True to You in My Fashion,” and “I Love Paris.” He was especially adept at the catalog song, his best-known efforts being “Let’s Do It” and “You’re…

Sergey Prokofiev: Pre-Revolutionary period: …he planned a new opera, The Love for Three Oranges, after a comedy tale by the 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as translated and adapted by Meyerhold. In the summer of 1917 Prokofiev was included in the Council of Workers in the Arts, which led Russia’s left wing of artistic…

love grass, (genus Eragrostis), genus of about 350 species of tufted annual and perennial grasses in the family Poaceae. Love grasses are native to tropical and temperate regions of the world, and several are cultivated as forage or as ornamentals. Love grasses are typically bunched or tufted with

Marx Brothers: …Casablanca (1946) and the embarrassing Love Happy (1949), the latter being most notable for a cameo appearance by the young Marilyn Monroe.

The Pursuit of Love: …of Love and its sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, are thinly disguised autobiographical novels based on Mitford’s life and her outlandish upper-class family. The narrator is sensible, realistic Fanny, who watches with bemused detachment at the antics of her seven Radlett cousins, dominated by the horrifying and often hilarious…

Isaac Bickerstaffe: His first theatrical success, Love in a Village (1762), was followed by many others, including The Maid of the Mill (based on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela), The Padlock, and The Hypocrite. A frank plagiarist, he depended for his success on his lively lyrics and his sparkling dialogue. Bickerstaffe’s future appeared…

William Wycherley: …he drafted his first play, Love in a Wood; or, St. James’s Park, and in the autumn of 1671 it was presented in London, bringing its author instant acclaim. Wycherley was taken up by Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland, whose favours he shared with King Charles II, and he was…

Elliott Nugent: …helps hide a murder witness; Love in Bloom (1935), with George Burns and Gracie Allen; and Professor Beware (1938), starring Harold Lloyd, in his penultimate film, as a hapless Egyptologist.

Billy Wilder: Films of the 1950s of Billy Wilder: With Love in the Afternoon (1957), Wilder began working with a new writing partner, I.A.L. Diamond, though this first collaboration between them is generally held to be one of their lesser efforts. This homage to Lubitsch’s sophisticated comedies, based on the novel Ariane by Claude Anet,…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: …Ferlinghetti published a short novel, Love in the Days of Rage, about a romance during the student revolution in France in 1968.

Walker Percy: …included The Last Gentleman (1966); Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World (1971), a science-fiction novel that brings a lighter comic touch to Percy’s treatment of “Malaise”; Lancelot (1977), an allegory of the King Arthur legend told through…

Alexander McCall Smith: …Door of Life (2015), and Love in the Time of Bertie (2022). The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld/Portuguese Irregular Verbs series of comic novels, which concerns the misadventures of German academic Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, began with Portuguese Irregular Verbs (2003)—a short run of which had been produced in 1997—and progressed…

Fernanda Montenegro: …outside her native Brazil in Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), an adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1985 novel.

Love in the Time of Cholera, novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del cólera. The story, which treats the themes of love, aging, and death, takes place between the late 1870s and the early 1930s in a South American community troubled by wars and outbreaks of

Robert Johnson: …on My Mind,” and “Love in Vain”—are his most compelling pieces. Unlike the songs of many of his contemporaries—which tended to unspool loosely, employing combinations of traditional and improvised lyrics—Johnson’s songs were tightly composed, and his song structure and lyrics were praised by Bob Dylan. Despite the limited number…

Charles Bukowski: …Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972), Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977), War All the Time (1984), and You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986). Though he had begun his career as one of the ultimate “cult authors,” his work was so popular and influential…

Irna Phillips: (1956–2010), Another World (1964–99), and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–73), and she created (with Allan Chase and Ted Corday) Days of Our Lives (1965– ).

Henry King: Later films: …biggest hit of the decade, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, a rare venture by the director into contemporary romance. It starred Jones and William Holden as a widowed doctor and a journalist, respectively, who fall in love in Hong Kong. The film received eight Oscar nominations, and its wins included…

Irving Stone: president; Love Is Eternal (1954), a fictionalized account of the marriage of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln; The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), a life of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo; The Passions of the Mind (1971), about Sigmund Freud; and The Origin (1980), a life of…

Tony Bennett: Cross-generational collaborations: Love Is Here to Stay (2018), a tribute to George Gershwin, was recorded with jazz vocalist Diana Krall.

Banksy: Banksy at auction: …art with a new name, Love Is in the Bin. The work sold in 2021 for $25 million, beating Banksy’s previous auction record, which had been set by Game Changer in 2020, when it sold for $22 million.

John Lithgow: Other credits, including The Crown: In Love Is Strange (2014) he portrayed a painter whose life is upended when his husband is fired from the Catholic school where he teaches following the revelation of their marriage. He took supporting roles as the father-in-law of a spaceship pilot (played by Matthew McConaughey)…

Bruce Sterling: (1998), The Caryatids (2009), and Love Is Strange (2012).

Buddy Holly: …by Bo Diddley, and “Love Is Strange” by Mickey and Sylvia. Guitar riffs and rhythmic ideas from these three records crop up repeatedly in his work.) Already well versed in country music, bluegrass, and gospel and a seasoned performer by age 16, he became a rhythm-and-blues devotee. By 1955,…

Roxy Music: … and its hit single “Love Is the Drug” in 1975. Splitting, re-forming, and splitting again, Roxy Music had commercial success with its albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, most notably with its final studio album, Avalon (1982), but failed to regain its earlier critical acclaim. After a…

James Tiptree, Jr.: …psychology was shown in “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death” (1973; winner of a Nebula Award for best short story), which is told from the viewpoint of a giant alien arachnid.

Alice Cooper: …Ezrin, and their third album, Love It to Death (1971), found an audience and yielded the hit single “I’m Eighteen.” The follow-up, Killer (1971), was another success. The title track of School’s Out (1972) was a Top Ten hit in the United States and reached the top of the British…

Carol Burnett: Gurney’s Love Letters (2014). Burnett voiced the character Chairol Burnett in the animated film Toy Story 4 (2019).

William Dieterle: Middle years of William Dieterle: Love Letters (1945) was another glossy Selznick melodrama, with Jennifer Jones as an amnesiac accused of murdering her husband whose memory is restored after she reads old love letters; it was scripted by Ayn Rand and was hugely popular. At about this time, at the…

Mariana Alcoforado: …long believed to have written Lettres portugaise (1669; “Portuguese Letters”), a collection of five love letters, though most modern authorities reject her authorship.

Bobbie Ann Mason: …her other short-story collections were Love Life: Stories (1989), Midnight Magic (1998), and Nancy Culpepper (2006). In 2003 Mason wrote a biography about Elvis Presley. Clear Springs: A Family Story (1999) is a memoir.

Anna Lea Merritt: 1883), Camilla (1882), and Love Locked Out (1889), which in 1890 became the first work of a woman artist to be purchased for the Tate Gallery, the museum that houses the national collection of British art. Merritt’s Eve Overcome by Remorse and a mural decoration for the Woman’s Building…

Charles Vidor: Later films: Love Me or Leave Me (1955) was a critically acclaimed biopic of singer Ruth Etting, with Doris Day in the title role and James Cagney as her gangster boyfriend (in an Oscar-nominated performance). The Swan (1956), a pleasant romance among royalty, was Grace Kelly’s penultimate…

Rock and film: …1956, Elvis Presley appeared in Love Me Tender, a Civil War-era melodrama that had little to do with rock and roll but sought to capitalize on Presley’s stardom, a formula that would be used throughout his unremarkable movie career. Indeed, of Presley’s films, only Jailhouse Rock (1957) captured rock’s spirit.

Rouben Mamoulian: Films of the 1930s: Mamoulian’s next effort, Love Me Tonight (1932), has come to be regarded as one of the most accomplished of the early musicals. It starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, featured a delightfully sardonic performance by Myrna Loy, and was grounded in strong songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz…