Endless Love
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Take It or Leave It (1981 film)
Take It or Leave
It is a 1981 film about the British ska/ pop band Madness.
Endless Love (1981 film)
Endless Love is a 1981 American romantic drama film based on Scott Spencer's 1979 novel of the same name.
The film is directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt.
The screenplay was written by Judith Rascoe.
The original music score was composed by Jonathan Tunick.
The film was released in July 1981 and received negative reviews, with critics comparing it unfavorably to the novel.
Spencer disliked it, believing the filmmakers to have missed the point of the book which showcased the dangers of obsessive love.
The film was a box- office success, and it s theme song, performed by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, also called" Endless Love", became a# 1 hit on the" Billboard" Hot 100.
It spent nine weeks at# 1 and received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for" Best Original Song", along with five Grammy Award nominations.
The film is also notable for being the film debut of Tom Cruise in a minor role.
Julia Darling
Julia Rose Darling( 21 August 1956 – 13 April 2005) was an English novelist, poet and dramatist.
I'm Rose, Darling
I'm Rose, Darling( Kya Ma Ka Hnin Si Par Maung) is a 2015 Burmese drama film directed by Wyne and starring Nay Toe and Phway Phway.
It is one of the films that reached the highest- grossing film in Myanmar.
This film was achieved Best Actress and Best Director Awards at Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards.
Wyne (film director)
Wyne( Own Creator)( born December 22, 1973) is a four- time Myanmar Academy Award winning film director and screenwriter of Burmese cinema.
He is best known for directing the short film" Ban that Scene".
His career began as a supporting actor in Myanmar movies and films.
He gained success as a director in the early days of his career by directing music videos.
However, his real success came in 2011 with his original movie, Adam, Eve and Datsa.
This movie lead to the starring actor and actress to be awarded in the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards.
The movie was shown in Singapore and L.A. and was a major release in Myanmar.
Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli( 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli, was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.
He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right" Forza Italia" party.
Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.
He was also known for several of the movies he directed, especially the 1968 version of" Romeo and Juliet", for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
His 1967 version of" The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best- known film adaptation of that play as well.
His miniseries" Jesus of Nazareth"( 1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries.
A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE.
He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.
Scott Spencer (writer)
Scott Spencer( born September 1, 1945) is an American author who has written thirteen novels.
He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie" Father Hood".
Two of Spencer's novels," Endless Love" and" Waking the Dead," have been adapted into films.
" Endless Love" was first adapted into a motion picture by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981, and a second adaptation by Shana Feste was released in 2014.
" Waking the Dead" was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000.
The novels" Endless Love" and" A Ship Made of Paper" have both been nominated for the National Book Award, with" Endless Love" selling over 2 million copies.
Spencer has heavily panned both film adaptations of" Endless Love".
Interviewed in" The New York Times", Spencer once said:" It may be time for serious, literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies."
Joyce Carol
Oates, writing about" A Ship Made of Paper" in The New Yorker, said:" Like Cheever, Spencer has imagined for his ... infatuated lover melodramatic crises that verge on the surreal; like John Updike, Spencer is a poet- celebrant of Eros, lyrically precise in his descriptions of lovers' fantasies, lovers' lovemaking, lovers' bodies ... The Wall Street Journal" has said:
" There are few novelists alive who use the English language as Scott Spencer does ...
Every ache of feeling, every failed effort at restraint, every attempt at self- deception is captured in precise, beautifully cadenced prose."
Spencer was born in Washington, D.C..
He has worked as a journalist and been published in" The New York Times The New YorkerHarper's MagazineGQO, The Oprah Magazine", and he is a regular contributor to" Rolling Stone".
He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Williams College, Bard College's Bard Prison Initiative, and the University of Virginia.
Spencer attended the University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
In 2004, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
For the past twenty years, he has lived in a small town in upstate New York.
For some of his latest works, two sequenced horror novels, Spencer has chosen the pseudonym ″ Chase Novak ″.
Martin Hewitt (actor)
Martin Hewitt( born February 19, 1958) is an American actor.
He is best known for his film debut as David Axelrod in Franco Zeffirelli's" Endless Love"( 1981).
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Are both directors of films I'm Rose, Darling and Endless Love (1981 film) from the same country?
Answer: no