Elvin Jones: …My Favorite Things (1960) and A Love Supreme (1964). Rather than merely keeping time, the drummer, through Jones’s example, became an improviser of equal importance to the lead melodic instrumentalist. After the addition of a second drummer, Rashied Ali, to the Coltrane group, Jones left in 1966 to lead his…

Avril Lavigne: Love Sux was released in 2022.

John Goodman: Film career: …Dalton Trumbo (2015); the comedy Love the Coopers (2015); the horror film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016); and Patriots Day (2016), about the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013. In 2017 Goodman appeared in the action thrillers Kong: Skull Island,e Once Upon a Time in Venice, and Atomic Blonde

Carlos Saura: …and El amor brujo (1986; Love the Magician)—were innovative versions of classic stories, done in collaboration with choreographer–lead actor–dancer Antonio Gades and his company. Carmen, based on Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 novella, included musical passages from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera and fused rehearsal, performance, and a contemporary mirror of Mérimée’s plot;…

Eminem: Later albums and projects: …singles “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Lie” (featuring the singer Rihanna) both became major hits. Eminem reteamed with Rihanna on “The Monster,” from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), and the album became his sixth to win the Grammy Award for best rap album.

Donna Summer: …creating the historic single “Love to Love You Baby” (1975), the first of more than a dozen hits in the United States for Summer, most on Casablanca Records. The club version of the erotically charged song, at nearly 17 minutes long, introduced the 12-inch disco mix. Over the next…

Augustus Edward Hough Love: …a method—based on measurements of Love waves—to measure the thickness of the Earth’s crust. In addition to his work on geophysical theory, Love studied elasticity and wrote A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, 2 vol. (1892–93).

Captain & Tennille: Pop music stardom: “Love Will Keep Us Together” (1975) was enormously successful, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earning Captain & Tennille a Grammy Award for record of the year. The number-one single paved the way for the duo’s 1975 debut album of the…

Joy Division/New Order: …followed tragedy; the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and the band’s second album, Closer, made the top 10 and top 20, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

Robert Mulligan: …film was the downbeat romance Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), featuring Natalie Wood as a young Roman Catholic woman who becomes pregnant following a one-night stand with a musician (played by Steve McQueen). The film ably blended humour with more-serious subjects, notably abortion, and it was another box-office hit.…

Robert Munsch: …Munsch achieved international success with Love You Forever (1986). The introspective work, which was written for his two stillborn babies, describes a parent’s love for a child. Popular with both young and older readers, it was published in some nine languages and sold more than 30 million copies by the…

In his will, designer Karl Lagerfeld stipulated that a portion of his $300 million fortune go to his beloved cat, Choupette. But when the fashion icon died in 2019, there were questions about how to pass that money on. Lagerfeld and Choupette lived in Paris, and in France—as in the United

Terrence McNally: …Award for best play, for Love! Valour! Compassion! (film 1997), and he won another the following year for Master Class, one of several works he wrote about opera.

Otto Erich Hartleben: …was the tragedy Rosenmontag (1900; Love’s Carnival, 1904), which portrays the tragedy of a Prussian officer in love with a working class girl. Social criticism in his works gave way to humorous anecdote, satire, and eroticism reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant, as seen in the tales Vom gastfreien Pastor (1895;…

Henrik Ibsen: First plays and directing: Kjaerlighedens komedie (1862; Love’s Comedy), a satire on romantic illusions, was violently unpopular, but it expressed an authentic theme of anti-idealism that Ibsen would soon make his own, and in Kongsemnerne (1863; The Pretenders) he dramatized the mysterious inner authority that makes a man a man, a king,…

Love’s Labour’s Lost, early comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1588 and 1597, more likely in the early 1590s, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggesting that an earlier quarto had been lost. The 1598 quarto was printed seemingly from an

Kenneth Branagh: …nomination for adapted screenplay; and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000). In 1995 he appeared as Iago in the film Othello, and in 2006 he directed the film As You Like It. He also directed and acted in the motion pictures Dead Again (1991) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Colley Cibber: …laureate of England, whose play Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a form of drama that dominated the English stage for nearly a century. His autobiography, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740), contains the best account…

Thomas Heywood: His charming masque Love’s Mistress (1636) was seen by Charles I and his queen three times in eight days.

Jerry Stiller: Stage, film, and television career: On television, Stiller appeared in Love, American Style, The Paul Lynde Show, The Love Boat, and L.A. Law, and his films include The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), and the original version of Hairspray (1988), directed by John Waters. Stiller found a new generation of…

Augustus Edward Hough Love was a British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him. Love held the Sedleian professorship of natural philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1899 to 1940. In his analysis of earthquake waves,

Chicago Bulls: Led by standouts Bob Love, Chet Walker, Jerry Sloan, and Norm Van Lier, the Bulls qualified for the playoffs every year between the 1969–70 and 1974–75 seasons, but they advanced past the first round only twice. After the talented foursome left the team, the Bulls slid into mediocrity…

Courtney Love is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress best known for her influential rock band Hole and for her troubled personal life, including her marriage to Kurt Cobain, front man for the alternative rock band Nirvana. Love began her career as an actress, appearing in two

girl groups: …Spector paid a session singer, Darlene Love, a flat studio fee to record songs like “He’s a Rebel” that were credited to the group. The Crystals then found themselves fronting songs they had not recorded. Although royalty disputes were endemic in the industry at the time, girl groups were often…

golf: U.S. tournaments and players: Seve Ballesteros, José Maria Olazabal, Davis Love III, and Vijay Singh.

Bernard Kops: …in West Hampstead (1988) and Love, Death and Other Joys (2018) were among Kops’s many collections of poetry.

Gilda Radner: …was chronicled in the documentary Love, Gilda (2018). It included home movies and audiotapes of the comedian.

Cleveland Cavaliers: …third perennial All-Star, power forward Kevin Love, and entered the 2014–15 season as the odds-on favorite in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland struggled early in the season before the young team came together to post the second best record in the conference. Despite the team’s loss of Love to a season-ending…

the Beach Boys:

the Beach Boys:

Black cowboys: …attention, some Black cowboys—such as Nat Love—were well known. Love was rumored to have driven cattle through eight states, fought off raids by Native Americans, and ridden alongside such legends as Billy the Kid and Buffalo Bill Cody.

Keith Urban: His next album, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, was released that same year and sold well despite his initial inability to tour to promote it. In 2009 Urban returned with the crossover hit album Defying Gravity. Its pop and rock influences and universal messages of love…

Tony Randall: …Tony Randall Show (1976–78) and Love, Sidney (1981–83). Among his later stage roles was the one he considered his all-time favourite, a love-struck diplomat in M. Butterfly (1989). In 1991 Randall founded the National Actors Theatre in New York City—funding it partly with $1 million of his own money—with the…

love-in-a-mist, (Nigella damascena), an annual herbaceous plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, it is now grown in gardens throughout temperate regions of the world. It grows 45 to 60 cm (18 to 24 inches) tall and has lacelike leaves. The delicate

pansy: Major species: The wild pansy (V. tricolor), also known as Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, and love-in-idleness, has been widely naturalized in North America. The flowers of this form are usually purple and yellow and less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) across.

pipsissewa: …sometimes also called prince’s pine, love-in-winter, and wintergreen, occurs in North America from Canada to Mexico and in Europe and Japan. C. maculata, sometimes called striped pipsissewa, rheumatism root, dragon’s tongue, and spotted wintergreen, occurs in North America from Canada to the southern United States. The name pipsissewa derives from…

Amaranthaceae: Major genera and species: Some species—namely, Inca wheat, or love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus), red amaranth (A. cruentus), and quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)—are high-protein pseudo-grain crops of interest to agricultural researchers. Quinoa in particular, touted as a health food, grew in popularity worldwide during the early 21st century.

Gwen Stefani: …released her first solo album, Love.Angel.Music.Baby (2004). Alongside such collaborators as André 3000 (of OutKast), Dr. Dre, and production duo the Neptunes, Stefani mixed hip-hop attitude with 1980s-style dance-pop music reminiscent of some of her earliest influences, including Prince and Madonna. On the strength of several hit singles—including “Rich

lovebird, any of nine species of small parrots, genus Agapornis (subfamily Psittacinae), of Africa and Madagascar. Lovebirds are noted for pretty colours and the seemingly affectionate proximity of pairs. (That one will die grieving if bereft of its mate is unproved.) The nine species are 10 to 16

Issa Rae: Acting roles: …also starring LaKeith Stanfield; and The Lovebirds (2020), an action-comedy wherein she and actor Kumail Nanjiani played a couple caught in a murder mystery. She executive produced the last two films. Rae also voiced a character in Hair Love (2019), an Academy Award-winning (2020) animated short film about a Black…

Lovech, town, north-central Bulgaria, on the Osŭm (Ossăm) River. A rapidly developing industrial town, its manufactures include bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, agricultural machinery, and leather goods. Once a prehistoric settlement, Lovech was later a Roman town and then a large Turkish

Black horror: History of Black horror: … (2020) and the television shows Lovecraft Country and Them, for their seemingly gratuitous depictions of extreme Black trauma.

H.P. Lovecraft was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror. Lovecraft was interested in science from childhood, but lifelong poor health prevented him from attending college. He made his living as a

H.P. Lovecraft was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror. Lovecraft was interested in science from childhood, but lifelong poor health prevented him from attending college. He made his living as a

Enid Bagnold: …birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied (1951), a study of a woman facing the approach of old age. As a playwright, Bagnold achieved great success with The Chalk Garden (1955); a motion-picture version was produced in 1964. Her other stage works include Four Plays (1970) and A…

Tony Richardson: …films he later directed were The Loved One (1965), based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, and the antiwar movie The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), which featured Vanessa Redgrave, Richardson’s wife from 1962 to 1967. His other credits included the Australian western Ned Kelly (1970), starring Mick Jagger

The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. Among other targets, it attacks what Waugh perceived as the snobbery of the English and the

The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. Among other targets, it attacks what Waugh perceived as the snobbery of the English and the

Lovedu, a Bantu-speaking people of Northern province, S.Af. Their immediate neighbours include the Venda and the Tsonga. Agriculture is their major economic activity, with corn (maize), millet, squash, and peanuts (groundnuts) cultivated by hoe. Animal husbandry is a secondary means of food

20th-century Norwegian literature: After World War II: …the 1980s and ’90s; and Cecilie Løveid, a postmodernist poet and playwright, one of the few who successfully challenged the Ibsenite tradition in drama. Løveid’s writing probes the potential for love, family, and close human relationships in modern society. Her work is playful and rich in imagery, humor, and sensuality,…

Arthur O. Lovejoy was an American philosopher best known for his work on the history of ideas and theory of knowledge. The son of a Boston minister and his German wife, Lovejoy received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1895), and his M.A. from Harvard University (1897) before

Arthur O. Lovejoy was an American philosopher best known for his work on the history of ideas and theory of knowledge. The son of a Boston minister and his German wife, Lovejoy received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1895), and his M.A. from Harvard University (1897) before

Elijah P. Lovejoy was an American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65). In 1827 Lovejoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he established a school and entered

Elijah P. Lovejoy was an American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65). In 1827 Lovejoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he established a school and entered

Lovek, the principal city of Cambodia after the sacking of Angkor by the Siamese king Boromoraja II in 1431. In the 14th and 15th centuries Cambodia was in a state of eclipse and became a minor state. After the virtual destruction of Angkor, Lovek was chosen as a new capital because of its more

John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics. Elected

Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two

Earl Lovelace is a West Indian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture. Using Trinidadian speech patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural

Richard Lovelace was an English poet, soldier, and Royalist whose graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier. Lovelace was probably born in the Netherlands, where his father was in military service. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, and at age 16 or

Robert Lovelace, fictional character, an aristocratic libertine in the epistolary novel Clarissa (1747–48) by Samuel

Loveland, city, Larimer county, northern Colorado, U.S., on the Big Thompson River, east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 45 miles (72 km) north of Denver. Founded in 1877 during construction of the Colorado Central Railroad, it was soon populated by unlucky gold miners who turned to

Front Range: …[3,446 metres]), near Winter Park; Loveland (11,990 feet [3,655 metres]), just northwest of Grays Peak; and Iceberg (Trail Ridge Road) in Rocky Mountain National Park (12,183 feet [3,713 metres]). The mountains are composed largely of gneiss, schist, and granite.

Kathryn Bigelow: …on her first feature-length movie, The Loveless, which she cowrote and codirected (with Monty Montgomery). The 1982 drama, starring a then unknown Willem Dafoe, focused on a motorcycle gang’s visit to a small Southern town and the ensuing violence. Bigelow was subsequently sent a number of scripts, most of which…

Richard Joseph Neutra: …important early work was the Lovell House, Los Angeles (1927–29), which has glass expanses and cable-suspended balconies and is stylistically similar to the work of Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Europe. Throughout the 1930s he designed houses in the International Style.

Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

radio telescope: Filled-aperture telescopes: …Parkes; and the 76-metre (250-foot) Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in England. These filled-aperture radio telescopes are used for atomic and molecular spectroscopy over a wide range of frequency and for other galactic and extragalactic studies.

Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

Jim Lovell is a U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and was the commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970. Lovell, a graduate (1952) of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, became a test pilot. He was serving as a flight instructor and

Jim Lovell is a U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and was the commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970. Lovell, a graduate (1952) of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, became a test pilot. He was serving as a flight instructor and

Patience Wright was an American sculptor of wax figures who achieved fame in the American colonies and England. Patience Lovell was born into a prosperous Quaker farm family. In 1748 she married Joseph Wright. Little is known of her life from then until 1769, when she was left a widow with five

Sir Bernard Lovell was an English radio astronomer, founder and director (1951–81) of England’s Jodrell Bank Experimental Station (now Jodrell Bank Observatory). Lovell attended the University of Bristol, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1936. After a year as an assistant lecturer in physics at

Sir Bernard Lovell was an English radio astronomer, founder and director (1951–81) of England’s Jodrell Bank Experimental Station (now Jodrell Bank Observatory). Lovell attended the University of Bristol, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1936. After a year as an assistant lecturer in physics at

Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand athlete famous for an unexpected victory in the 1,500-metre (metric-mile) race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The world record he set on that occasion—3 min 47.8 sec—endured until 1941. After studying at the University of Otago, N.Z., Lovelock went to Oxford

James Lovelock was an English chemist, medical doctor, scientific instrument developer, and author best known for the creation and promulgation of the Gaia hypothesis, an idea rooted in the notion that all life on Earth is part of an entity that regulates Earth’s surficial and atmospheric

James Lovelock was an English chemist, medical doctor, scientific instrument developer, and author best known for the creation and promulgation of the Gaia hypothesis, an idea rooted in the notion that all life on Earth is part of an entity that regulates Earth’s surficial and atmospheric

Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand athlete famous for an unexpected victory in the 1,500-metre (metric-mile) race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The world record he set on that occasion—3 min 47.8 sec—endured until 1941. After studying at the University of Otago, N.Z., Lovelock went to Oxford

Saoirse Ronan: Early films: Atonement and The Lovely Bones: … (2009), the film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel about a murdered girl who watches her family and killer from the afterlife; Ronan earned a BAFTA nomination for best actress. After a supporting role in the escape drama The Way Back (2010), she won widespread praise for her riveting portrayal…

Peter Jackson: …the classic 1933 film, and The Lovely Bones (2009), an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel about a murdered girl who observes her family and killer from the afterlife. He then returned to the enchanting world of Tolkien with a series based on The Hobbit, the author’s predecessor to The Lord…

Tennessee Williams: …about down-and-outs in New Orleans; A Lovely Sunday for Crève Coeur (1978–79), about a fading belle in St. Louis during the Great Depression; and Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), centring on Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, and on the people they knew.

Taylor Swift: Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and controversies: …Swift released her seventh album, Lover, which she described as “a love letter to love itself.” That year she also appeared in the musical Cats, a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful stage production. Miss Americana (2020) is a documentary about her life and career. With little advance…

Peggy Lee: Vocal career of the 1950s and ’60s: …Rodgers and Moss Hart’s “Lover” (1952), with an audacious mambo-style arrangement by Gordon Jenkins, and “Fever” (1958), featuring one of her most seductive vocal performances and a musical backing of only drums, bass, and finger snaps. “Fever” garnered Lee her first Grammy Award nominations, for record of the year…

Delbert Mann: Feature films: …with the Doris Day vehicles Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962); the former costarred Rock Hudson, and the latter featured Cary Grant. Both films are notable examples of early 1960s romantic comedies. Hudson also starred in the aviation film A Gathering of Eagles (1963), and Glenn…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Early years (1749–69): The Lover’s Caprice), begun in 1767. He fell in love with the daughter of an innkeeper, Käthchen Schönkopf, but she preferred someone more solid, a lawyer who eventually became deputy burgomaster of Leipzig. Goethe took revenge by starting his first mature play, Die Mitschuldigen (1787;…

French literature: Biography and related arts: …Fragments d’un discours amoureux (1977; A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments), criticism and self-analysis became fiction and writing became an erotic act.

number symbolism: 5: …the pentagram is called a lover’s knot because of this association with the goddess of love. In Manichaeism 5 has a central position: the first man had five sons; there are five elements of light (ether, wind, water, light, and fire) and a further five of darkness. The body has…

John Ford: …plays are: The Broken Heart; The Lover’s Melancholy (1628); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck; The Queen; The Fancies, Chaste and Noble; Love’s Sacrifice; and The Lady’s Trial (1638). There are a few contemporary references to Ford, but nothing is known of his personal life, and there is no…

The Husband’s Message, Old English lyric preserved in the Exeter Book, one of the few surviving love lyrics from the Anglo-Saxon period. It is remarkable for its ingenious form and for its emotive power. The speaker is a wooden staff on which a message from an exiled husband to his wife has been

reggae: “Lover’s rock,” a style of reggae that celebrated erotic love, became popular through the works of artists such as Dennis Brown, Gregory Issacs, and Britain’s Maxi Priest.

Samuel Lover was an Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, and painter. Privately educated, Lover fled his father’s stockbroking office and became a successful painter, largely of portraits. He also wrote songs, notably “Rory O’More” (1826), which he also developed as a novel (1837) and a play (1837).

Sir Richard Steele: Mature life and works.: …his most distinguished work, and The Lover comprises 40 of his most attractive essays. Other, short-lived, periodicals, such as The Reader, Town-Talk, and The Plebeian, contain matter of considerable political importance. Steele became, indeed, the chief journalist of the Whigs in opposition (1710–14), his writings being marked by an unusual…

Pixies: ), and David Lovering (b. December 6, 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.).

Ruth Orkin: …also collaborated on the film Lovers and Lollipops (1956). After that film Orkin began to concentrate once more on still photography.

Pablo Picasso: Discovery of Paris: …in the French capital (Lovers in the Street [1900]). In Moulin de la Galette (1900) he paid tribute to French artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Swiss Théophile Alexandre Steinlen as well as his Catalan compatriot Ramon Casas.

Anouk Aimée: …Les Amants de Vérone (1949; The Lovers of Verona), a role written especially for her by Jacques Prévert (who also provided the name Aimée that she soon adopted as a surname), she won acclaim for her performances in Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960; “The Sweet Life”) and Otto e mezzo…

Leo Pinsker: …a newly formed Zionist group, Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (“Love of Zion”), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa. Although Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (later Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon [“Lovers of Zion”]) was crippled by lack of funds, it…

Sade: …to produce the critically acclaimed Lovers Rock (2000), which earned a Grammy for best pop vocal album.

Joan Armatrading: …included Square the Circle (1992), Lovers Speak (2003), the Grammy Award-nominated Into the Blues (2007), Starlight (2013), Not Too Far Away (2018), and Consequences (2021), all of which she produced herself. Armatrading also wrote the music for Phyllida Lloyd’s all-women production of Shakespeare

Louis Malle: His second, Les Amants (1958; The Lovers), was a commercial success and established Malle and its star, Jeanne Moreau, in the film industry. The film’s lyrical love scenes, tracked with exquisite timing, exhibit Malle’s typically bold and uninhibited treatment of sensual themes. Social alienation and isolation was the subject of…