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"star-crossed" Definitions
  1. not able to be happy because of bad luck or fate

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Star crossed Remember where Britney Spears was about nine years ago?
It logged barely 10,000 miles during its star-crossed Iraqi days.
However, that isn't at all the premise of Still Star-Crossed.
These two are star-crossed lovers when he comes to challenges.
But for the star-crossed Skywalker clan, this is apparently it.
Sayonara revolves around the fate of these two star-crossed two couples.
We love to immerse ourselves in the stories of star-crossed lovers.
I gave Star Crossed Myth a try — a highly recommended Voltage game.
These two characters would be star-crossed partners, to say the least.
But there was no mention of Angel, Buffy's star-crossed love interest.
The star-crossed lovers are all set to cause their parents strife.
Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom lead as star-crossed, inter-species lovers.
It has been a star-crossed season at quarterback for the Steelers.
Many of these stories end tragically for the protagonists, or at least for their ill-fated partners in passion — emotionless-future stories are often star-crossed lovers stories, and star-crossed lovers don't always make it out alive.
"Cloud-outs are traumatic events," Schneider said of his specific star-crossed trip.
Still Star-Crossed premieres Monday, May 29, at 10:01 pm on ABC.
The death of Ygritte, Jon Snow's star-crossed wildling lover, in his arms!
These characters, Noah (Gosling) and Allie (McAdams), are not quite star-crossed lovers.
But I know that Lone Star TV has a star-crossed track record.
From this story of star-crossed science and love, conservationists have great hopes.
Beginning Monday is Kenneth MacMillan's lavish production of history's most famous star-crossed lovers.
Which is to say, even though they got together, they still seemed star-crossed.
Mr. de Blasio has a decidedly star-crossed record when it comes to wildlife.
Unfortunately for Troy and Gabriella, their star-crossed love has some hurdles to overcome.
Joe and Cameron have always been Halt and Catch Fire's most star-crossed couple.
Countless beautiful tears are shed as these two star-crossed teens accept their upsetting fate.
Other TV credits include arcs on Last Resort, Star-Crossed, The Magicians, Sirens, and Underground.
Viewers don't even see the star-crossed young lovers after their anticlimactic "Forbidden Fruit" death.
Theresa Rebeck's tale of two star-crossed Midwesterners passed my screen test with flying colors.
The 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain" saw Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play star-crossed lovers.
Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal are star-crossed lovers in the 1970 flick "Love Story."
These two star-crossed lovers cemented their spot in movie history with this sunset smooch.
Feature The star-crossed life of Sara Seager, an astrophysicist obsessed with discovering distant worlds.
I've paired the forecasts with perfect binge-watch recommendations to weather the star-crossed month ahead.
Quite literally, the church became a sanctuary for the star-crossed artists who roamed its confines.
Oddly enough, the star-crossed lovers don't actually orbit a star at all—just each other.
While Luke and Lorelai are still together, the star crossed couple have not gotten married (yet).
What's so chilling about this already -frustrating tale of star-crossed English lovers with poor diction?
At long last, our star-crossed couple meet in the downpour and make the fuck out.
As the star-crossed lovers careen towards a tragic end, the family falls on hard times.
Shonda Rhimes' new series for ABC, Still Star-Crossed, begins where Romeo and Juliet leaves off.
MacMillan introduced his ballet with four casts of star-crossed lovers, giving leeway to individual interpretations.
Ideally it's only a hiccup in perhaps the most solid stretch of Casey's star-crossed career.
In the chaos of armageddon, Daybreak's star-crossed lovers were thrown to the post-apocalyptic winds.
The Cameraman's Revenge was his boldest experiment yet, depicting a tryst between star-crossed (bug) lovers.
And to further spoil the journey this star-crossed couple goes on together would be ... unforgivable.
Once she's captured, they become a literal star-crossed romance, doomed for the rest of the movie.
Can Andie and Blane's star-crossed love weather the storm of disrupting a high school caste system?
Like any pair of star-crossed lovers, DeVito and Closs had to overcome a few major obstacles.
A story of star-crossed lovers in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, Moulin Rouge!
Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees is a book about star-crossed love.
When I first tuned into Still Star-Crossed, which premiered last night on ABC, it felt strange.
But these crabwise movements can frustrate the reader as much as fate impedes the star-crossed lovers.
Woven throughout this detective story is a tale of star-crossed lovers, divided by class and war.
This was all the more interesting since I noticed that STAR CROSSED LOVE is 15 letters long.
Perhaps the flimsiest: that Shakespeare's famous star-crossed teenagers have come to define our understanding of love.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 29, is the scion of one of Pakistan's most illustrious and star-crossed dynasties.
If that luckless franchise can win, then maybe, someday, the star-crossed Mariners will take their turn.
Both have been described as hyper-athletic, although not so much recently for the star-crossed Rose.
Who needs a star-crossed lover when you can pamper yourself to a shiny new vanity staple, anyway?
Never fear, someone has gone and made a film about outback dwelling, ute driving and star-crossed lovers.
As Entertainment Weekly notes, her fifth show — previously called Star-Crossed and now untitled — is in the works.
The "Little Woman" star crossed paths with Robbie while they were both taking photos before the show began. 
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart: unlikely duo of the last two centuries, internet darlings, and star crossed... pals.
Lynch also starred on Shonda Rhimes's ABC period drama, "Still Star-Crossed," which was her first leading role.
ABC's latest drama Still Star-Crossed comes from the world we would all like to live in, Shondaland.
And do we even need to mention star-crossed combinations like Google and Motorola, and Microsoft and Nokia?
It made me wonder though if we'd ever seen star-crossed lovers crossed up in a crossword puzzle.
Ansel Elgort and newcomer Rachel Zegler play the star-crossed lovers who defy their opposing teenage street gangs.
His grave stands to this day as a testament to the star-crossed Nazi foray into the Amazon.
Alison and Noah are looking star-crossed again, which puts us back to where they were in season 1.
In the meanwhile, we're going to look the other way whenever we see signs of their star-crossed fate.
In Cain's novel, the star-crossed lovers are joined by a dark passion and by complicity in a murder.
Of course, it's not always so bleak, and Tinder has made the occasional connection between star-crossed lovers possible.
Still Star-Crossed is our Toyota People Pick of the Day Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
Yet as she impassively recounts her star-crossed history, Grace's version of events complicates Holcroft's attempts to help her.
It's a classic formula: Star-crossed lovers try to stay together despite opposition from family, friends and social norms.
Still Star-Crossed is based on a YA novel by Melinda Taub, itself loosely based on Romeo and Juliet.
History is full of love stories about star-crossed lovers, risking it all for the objects of their desire.
And, most tragically of all, several star-crossed penguins appear to be hopelessly in love with their human caretakers.
While we can't promise star-crossed love or country fried camp, the new series has a lot going for it.
She's a storyteller with a bibliography full of star-crossed lovers, mystical events, and imagery plucked out of a fairytale.
"Still Star-Crossed" was a short-lived period drama from Shonda Rhimes'a young adult novel by Melinda TaubRomeo and Juliet.
Consider Best's star-crossed football career, and the hits from which he was fortunate not to sustain more significant damage.
This tale of star-crossed lovers — a spoiled chad a rare happy ending that has stuck with us for decades.
It's been a heartbreaking season so far for Jamie and Claire, star-crossed lovers separated by centuries and an ocean.
But the rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is star-crossed when it comes to the United States Open.
Whatever happens, Jeremy Noseda, 54, trainer of star-crossed Gronkowski, yearns to make up for a chance that slipped away.
Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth played star-crossed lovers in a 2013 film based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
"I had never seen a love story like that for Black people," Layne says of the film's two star-crossed lovers.
Elizabeth tries to throw the star-crossed lovers a bone by having Peter accompany her on a trip to Northern Ireland.
It's right in line with some of the most time-honored star-crossed lover tropes that literature has ever served up.
"I feel like, in this life or the next, they're star-crossed lovers... time or place doesn't erase that," she said.
As if it were penned by destiny like the meeting of two star-crossed lovers, we have found your summer show.
From the moment we meet Rosaline, Star-Crossed drives home the point the older Capulet sister is the less traditional one.
The moment — however fleeting — that we've been waiting for has finally arrived: the reunion of star-crossed lovers Claire and Jamie!
There are stories about star-crossed lovers, sensationalistic journalism, and finding the small pleasures of life even in an unjust society.
In New York, there are many fingers are crossed in the hope that the two rivals are not star-crossed again.
In Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers, Juliet Capulet declares that she is ready to chuck her last name for love.
This episode is also the beginning of the adorkable star-crossed romance of Kendra (played by Ciara Renee) and Ray (Routh).
Manning, for 33 weeks the forlorn servant on the bench, improbably resurrected the star-crossed Giants against the heavily-favored Eagles.
Mr. Pastor keeps the star-crossed lovers in Italy, but places them against a backdrop of 20th-century Italian political strife.
Showrunner Shonda Rhimes' latest for ABC is "Still Star-Crossed," which tells the story after Romeo and Juliet's tragic teenage-angst demise.
And, if you remember your high school English class, you'll know that it doesn't end well for our dear star-crossed lovers.
In Berlin he staged a version of "West Side Story" in which the star-crossed lovers were a German and a Turk.
ABC's new show Still Star Crossed, set to premiere on May 29, picks off right after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
In Romeo and Juliet, the latter's celestial worship of her star-crossed lover is the inspiration behind Follen's sculpture For All Time.
The mention of Shakespeare's star-crossed Romeo and Juliet as "together in eternity," led to condemnations of the song as pro-suicide.
The turning point in the project's star-crossed fate, he said, was a critical funding agreement with the federal government in 2007.
Mr. Robot This week's episode took a bit of a breather to focus on the star-crossed fates of Darlene and Dom.
The star-crossed lovers are joined by some neighborhood puppers from the 'burbs as well as the streets, and two creepy cats.
With multiple factions happily profiteering from the conflict, the appearance of star-crossed lovers — who inherently symbolize peace — represents a dire threat.
Even more naturally, the presence of vast gulfs of time separating them — and Railly's impending death — give them a star-crossed quality.
The tale of star-crossed lovers grossed more than one billion rupees ($15 million) at the box office - unprecedented for a Marathi film.
The star-crossed romance between Thompson and Monáe, and whether they will be separated or reunited, is the true narrative of the film.
Unlike their fathers, second-generation Potter and Malfoy are the best of friends with their disapproving families fueling their star-crossed-lovers vibe.
This new video heavily features Jonah Hill and Emma Stone as two star-crossed patients (and maybe lovers) of an experimental medical facility.
Washington will attempt to rebound from a star-crossed and controversy-stained 25 season with Murphy in the middle of their refurbished lineup.
Her star-crossed lover Jack (DiCaprio) couldn't fit on the ship debris and subsequently died of hypothermia while clutching tightly to Rose's hands.
Star-crossed romances are seriously stupid and selfish, but shot by Bradford Young (Arrival, Solo: A Star Wars Story), they sure are sexy.
"Victory" is an engrossing mélange of psychological case study, star-crossed love story, and home-invasion thriller—"Gatsby" meets Mills & Boon and Pinter.
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play seemingly star-crossed lovers, and you'll spend the whole thing wishing they would just be together already.
Must See: Shonda Rhimes has a new ABC series called Still Star-Crossed — and it picks up where Romeo and Juliet left off.
Picture the star-crossed lovers—him in a KidRobot snapback, her in a gold lamé American Apparel bikini—locking eyes across the pool.
Star-crossed lovers Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) meet while vying for the last remaining pair of black gloves at Bloomingdale's. 
On Friday night at Bristol, with Briscoe driving, bad karma (or maybe it should be "carma") once again struck the star-crossed Mustang.
But the picture's gender and race dynamics, not to mention its forced star-crossed lovers theme, are sufficiently commonplace to register as hackneyed.
And yet, it's followed by a genuinely moving and intimate moment between the star-crossed protagonists that evokes a similar scene from The Notebook.
And the series will definitely build on the romance between Betty and Jughead (Bughead?) because what is Riverdale without a star-crossed teen romance?
Fall in love all over again — twice — with Jesse and Celine, the star-crossed couple whom director Richard Linklater returns to every nine years.
Yet that's exactly what happened for Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, who famously met while playing star-crossed lovers on the hit HBO show.
Kate Horowitz at Mental Floss wrote an excellent article on the star-crossed romance of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a wombat.
An adaptation that attempts to turn the story of star-crossed lovers on its head, the modern day "Laila Majnu" has several recurring themes.
When conceiving "Salt Bride," Landau drew inspiration from "The Dybbuk": S. Ansky's 1916 drama of star-crossed love and exorcism rooted in Jewish folklore.
Her meeting with Mr. Trump on Tuesday will be one of the last acts of her star-crossed residency at 10 Downing Street. Mrs.
"Saga" is an eight-time Eisner award-winning series about a girl named Hazel, whose parents are star-crossed lovers in a literal sense.
In most of their interviews, they framed the show in general, and Chuck and Blair's storyline in particular, as an epic, star-crossed romance.
Then, they sizzled in 1949 L.A. as a star-crossed gangster's girlfriend and the police officer tasked with taking said thug down in Gangster Squad.
Both Setts and Smith are major fans, so the couple decided to go dressed as the show's star-crossed lovers Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.
The tale of two star-crossed teenagers who fall in love despite their families' rivalry has spawned an infinite number of cultural tropes and references.
In the video above, Corden and Blunt re-enact the story of the two star-crossed lovers using only the lyrics from pop music hits.
The CW's The 100 featured a nuanced relationship between protagonist Clarke and her star-crossed lover Lexa (but was scandalized for abruptly killing Lexa off).
Michael Arden's revival of the 1990 musical fable, by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, traces star-crossed lovers from opposite ends of a Caribbean island.
This novel revolves around Steve's orphaned niece and adopted daughter, 17-year-old Poppy, and her star-crossed love affair with an older family friend.
Then, embracing romance, Lee's notions of pragma, mania, and ludus are joined by the passionate desire of "epithymia", and the star-crossed destiny of "anánkē".
The story promises the "kind of star-crossed, decade-hopping, supernatural crime romance that bursts at all the right seams," our reviewer, Charles Finch, wrote.
The greater world always presses in on the star-crossed lovers even when the movie pretends otherwise, shaping or just quietly tugging at their story.
After she meets a hip-hop dancer (Fabian Svegaard Tapia), their star-crossed collaboration opens her up to the liberating, improvisational world of battle dancing.
Trump compounded the damage by threatening to sanction the star-crossed nation invaded by US-led troops in 2003 if American forces are kicked out.
Airbnb is giving one lucky pair of star-crossed lovers the chance to spend the night living out a modern Shakespearean romance this February 14.
Their star-crossed love is one of many storylines highlighting a class and racial divide, which serve as a clear allegory for modern social dynamics.
The article covered the most recent incarnation of Mach's relentless pursuit of the American dream — a star-crossed bid to become an Atlanta police officer.
It was hard, as I considered this star-crossed couple, not to imagine the role that love had played in the life of their creator.
Fans of CW dramas, YA novels, and Romeo & Juliet can all attest to the appeal of the star-crossed lovers aspect of Syed and Lee's relationship.
So is this really actual footage of star-crossed lovers Carey and Tanaka falling in love right before our eyes in their own IRL rom-com?
Their star-crossed love seems like it can't have a happy ending, but in the end, both generational trauma and aristocratic tradition can't stop true love.
And Bonnie and Clyde wouldn't be the last movie about the pair, either, or in some cases about the archetypal star-crossed criminal lovers they represented.
Y will also star Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) as the titular Yorick, as well as Lashana Lynch (Still Star-Crossed), Imogen Poots, Juliana Canfield, and Marin Ireland.
They're predicated on the wreckage of the star-crossed sedan; their existence was made possible because of the high-speed crash that yielded Devine's multifarious mold.
Mr. Abu-Assad, the Palestinian director of the drama "Paradise Now," about suicide bombers, and the star-crossed thriller "Omar," spotlights the hardships in Mohammed's path.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directed this contemporary story of star-crossed lovers, which takes place both in the real world and in a fantastical, folkloric parallel universe.
Its white walls were full with rose and blue silk flowers and tribute plaques to the village's dead, including members of the star-crossed Cañadas family.
It's starkly clear how the only thing bringing these characters together is their shared emotional damage; this is a star-crossed love affair you watch queasily.
In defiance of common sense, "Gnomeo & Juliet" (2011) decided that Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers would be better off not dying, at least as animated garden gnomes.
When Mr. Eyre's "Werther" staging had its premiere in 2014, with Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch as the star-crossed couple, it felt mannered and detached.
After 33 star-crossed and often unhappy years, after other marriages and public opprobrium, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles on April 20143, 2005.
Two star-crossed lovers—Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes)—from two warring families (Montagues and Capulets), fall in love... in a Verona Beach setting.
He was star-crossed in drawing the rail for each of his next two starts and broke slowly in finishing eighth at one mile on Jan.
Latif most recently appeared in Showtime's Penny Dreadful as Henry Jekyll, and will next be seen in ABC's upcoming Romeo and Juliet sequel series Still Star-Crossed.
If you do, you may remember Shakespeare writing in the very first passage about how Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers, doomed from the very start.
The two spontaneously become star-crossed lovers on the day in 1938 when nearly everyone else in Rome is in the streets cheering Hitler's visit to Mussolini.
DES MOINES, Iowa — It was a fitting coda to a star-crossed campaign — the scrapping late Saturday of the most highly-anticipated poll of Iowa caucus season.
Sixty-eight years might not sound as impressive as the Chicago Cubs' 21887-year drought, but in by some measures the Indians are just as star-crossed.
Grey's Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder were previously renewed, while Romeo & Juliet sequel Still Star-Crossed will finally debut May 29 at 10 p.m.
An explosive tale of star-crossed lovers comes to life—and shrieking death—in the new music video for Mykki Blanco's "High School Never Ends" (ft. Woodkid).
The infamous star-crossed lovers have acted out their tragic affair to the soundtrack of Radiohead and in the midst of a New York City gang war.
ABC will also pick up a period drama from Ms. Rhimes, "Still Star-Crossed," about the Montagues and the Capulets after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Yet, that's exactly the situation we see Rosaline Capulet (Lashana Lynch) pining for in ABC's new Shondaland soap Still Star-Crossed — and it's so sad to watch.
Still Star-Crossed may exist in a race-blind European utopia called Verona, but it still ends up mired in the same sexist entrapments of real life.
If I ran this phrase across the middle of a puzzle, could I find sets of star-crossed lovers to go in each of the four corners?
Actress, author and musician Bella Thorne joined Pornhub's Visionaries Director's Series with "Her & Him," which tells the Romeo and Juliet-like story of two star-crossed lovers.
What follows plays like a tiny Cameron Crowe film, a years-long saga about whether or not the two grungy, star-crossed lovers will ever get together.
Based on "Mirza Sahiban," a Punjab folk tale of star-crossed lovers, the plot centers on Soochi (Saiyami Kher, always stunning) and Adil (Harshvardhan Kapoor, always scruffy).
"There is an ironclad rule of politics, which is: No funny hats," he said, invoking the star-crossed union of Michael Dukakis and an ill-fitting helmet.
The key word here is "loosely," because Still Star-Crossed knocks out all the Romeo and Juliet action in a solid 20 minutes and never looks back.
While Javier Zamora's lovers may not have to contend with feuding families nor navigate the ethnic minefields of "West Side Story," their destinies are star-crossed nevertheless.
The charming trailer culminates with the reveal of the ultimate obstacle for this star-crossed couple: her new boyfriend, played by none other than Keanu Reeves. Whoa!
The doomed love between the disabled, noble-hearted Porgy and the conflicted, drug-addicted Bess takes its place alongside the great star-crossed pairings of opera history.
The story revolves around the star-crossed romance of Oliver and Jenny, possibly the only two '60s-era Harvard students to never pick up an antiwar placard.
Cross-dressed women, star-crossed lovers and someone pestering a pipe and tabor is most of what I want out of a midsummer night at the theater.
Popocaltepetl returned and, finding his beloved dead, carried her body outside the city, where their star-crossed love is preserved in the form of the two volcanoes.
Their star-crossed romance is the subject of photographer Doug Hall's exhibition and multimedia installation Letters in the Dark: Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská at Benrubi Gallery.
While last week's season 2 premiere reintroduced us to our star-crossed lovers-slash-murderers, this next episode zooms out to give us a much bigger, confusing picture.
Stars Ansel Elgortand Rachel Zegler portray Tony and Maria, the star-crossed lovers who originate from the Broadway musical, as well as the original film remake in 1961.
It sounded to her like not one but two bad plays: one about star-crossed lovers, the other about a man so heroic he could not be imagined.
Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke is an enchanting read that follows not only two protagonists but also a whole slew of characters you'll find yourself surprisingly invested in.
While that might have looked like a clever strategy on paper, much like its ill-fated lovers, it's difficult to envision "Still Star-Crossed" enjoying a happy ending.
Alas, their romance is star-crossed — or hammer-and-sickle-crossed — and her dad forbids it as one more too dangerous intimacy in a series full of them.
At the Metropolitan Museum, the Handel + Haydn Society transports the star-crossed autocrats of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" from mythical Carthage to an ancient Egyptian temple (March 30).
Starring Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden as star-crossed somethings James and Alyssa, this two-season romp blends humor, heart, and a classic rock soundtrack to punchy effect.
That's also the approach of "Still Star-Crossed," the "Romeo and Juliet" sequel, from the Shonda Rhimes TV factory, now airing on ABC and struggling to attract viewers.
Perhaps the most star-crossed move of Mr. Morris's long career was to invite Mr. Smith to join Magnum, an affiliation that lasted three and a half years.
A Jacobean tragedy about star-crossed lovers and the spouses who just happen to get murdered along the way, this John Webster play piles up its final corpses.
La La Land — the musical featuring America's sweethearts Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling — tells the story star-crossed lovers who meet and fall head-over-heels in Los Angeles.
TORONTO (Reuters) - "La La Land," a musical tale of star-crossed lovers chasing their dreams in Hollywood, won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.
Other romantic couples wander on and off-page, mostly star-crossed, and Time's love affair with Fate takes heavy-handed pride of place in this realm of Personified Concepts.
Our favorite cliches — star-crossed lovers who overcome odds to win scholarships — are made stronger by music we love and understand, and dance moves we've always dreamed of executing.
Throughout the past six AHS seasons, plenty of longtime fans have been pleading for some sign that Murder House's problematic star-crossed lovers would in fact end up together.
This real-life Fault In Our Stars couple is fighting to keep their love alive in their final days together after a diagnosis turned them into star-crossed lovers.
With Mr McIlroy (and Mr Rose) both forecasted at just about even par, that edge translates into an 8% chance of victory for the occasionally star-crossed Mr Johnson.
Two of their games—Kissed by the Baddest Bidder and Star-Crossed Myth—were among the top 30 highest-grossing smart phone apps in America as of November 2015.
Even though white people get to play Egyptian queens and Japanese manga characters on screen, seeing Black characters in Still Star-Crossed took me some time to adjust to.
The trick was to find couples who were real star-crossed lovers, whose last names could be crossed, and hopefully who could be set up symmetrically in a grid.
Star-crossed quarterback Robert Griffin III is back on the shelf, exactly one week into his comeback with the Browns, because of a broken bone in his left shoulder.
There the past has been blasted with mortars launched from the ground, but in 1943 destruction came from the air, as bombs rained down on Tiepolo's star-crossed couple.
In the romantic drama, Turner-Smith and Kaluuya go from strangers to star-crossed lovers after a first date turned fatal leads them on a journey across the country.
And instead of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, hunky-dorky Chris Pratt and American sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence are the star-crossed lovers and Michael Sheen is a weird android bartender?
In the fall of 2008, America at large was introduced to the story of Bella Swan, teenage everygirl, and her fraught, star-crossed love for glitter-streaked vampire Edward Cullen.
Star Trek Discovery, a star-crossed project that was set to premiere on CBS' digital "All-Access" platform in May, has had its launch window delayed indefinitely, according to CBS.
As Sally and Gary keep finding themselves drawn to each other in spite of their star-crossed circumstances, the film gets back the breath Jimmy tried to steal from it.
Not even death could part these star-crossed lovers, though, since Harington proposed to her long after her character had died from an arrow through the heart on the show.
The optimism came despite the team's star-crossed history, including a 107-year stretch without a championship and a sweep by the Mets in last year's National League Championship Series.
Yes, virginity was a historically huge factor in engagements at the time Star-Crossed takes place, but it's not like the drama is sticking to reality in every other facet.
We know these star-crossed lovers well — not Romeo and Juliet, but their 20th-century analogues, Tony and Maria ("all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word").
The film follows two star-crossed lovers with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)—Will (Cole Sprouse) and Stella (Haley Lu Richardson)—who develop feelings for each other while confined in a hospital.
But there is a faint sprinkling of schmaltz over the romance at the novel's heart, by dint of Perry writing star-crossed lovers with strong arms and wild hair, respectively.
Fans were completely sold on the star-crossed love story of Desmond and Penny after season four episode "The Constant," which is frequently cited as an all-time great episode.
During The Hunger's first act, he turns from star-crossed lover locked in a torrid affair he believes will continue into infinity into a weak, confused shell of a man.
She said it was a stop they made at Niagara Falls immediately after Hoffman's star-crossed playoff loss to Jhonattan Vegas at the Canadian Open at the end of July.
Written by Niven and Golden Globe nominee Liz Hannah (The Post), the movie version of All The Bright Places introduces star-crossed lovers Violet and Finch differently from the novel.
"Tanna," filmed mostly in Mr. Dain's tribal village and the surrounding jungle, chronicles the fate of two star-crossed lovers who rebel after one is steered into an arranged marriage.
He's also been a top backer of multinational trade deals like NAFTA, which Trump wants to renegotiate, and the star-crossed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Trump pulled the US out of.
She passed away of tuberculosis at age 30, but not before publishing "Wuthering Heights," a classic piece of English literature about two star-crossed lovers, Catherine and Heathcliff, that spans generations.
Over the past 12 years, the production company also brought Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Private Practice, The Catch, Off the Map, and Still Star-Crossed to the network.
While we've cautioned against hoping these two reunite like star crossed mythological lovers, even this past Sunday's KUWTK season 15 premiere "Photo Shoot Dispute," hinted one such reconciliation is almost inevitable.
Just look the precedent set by another star-crossed couple, Kim and Kanye, whose style has Kanye has completely transformed over the course of the four short years they've been together.
Earlier in the week, George Foster—whose disastrous free agent contract with the team is as emblematic as Gooden's star-crossed, self-thwarting career—signed autographs at the Cooperstown Bat Factory.
Garcia again having a star-crossed week in Georgia Sergio Garcia famously complained five years ago at the Masters that he didn't have what it takes to win a major championship.
Fault in Our Stars: Sarah Silverman & Taran Killam In this Saturday Night Live spin on the teenage sob-fest, the star-crossed lovers contended with an Ebola diagnosis instead of cancer.
"Trouble Boys", for all its tales of dysfunction, brings details fans of this star-crossed act long for—who or what inspired which songs, and what went on behind studio doors.
The ballet dancers Garen Scribner and Leanne Cope play the semi-star-crossed lovers, and Max von Essen sings like a dream as an heir who aspires to a nightclub career.
Example 4: After nearly a year on the run, a pair of star-crossed young lovers are back in the Afghan village where both their love affair and their problems began.
There's a seemingly star-crossed romance that appears rote, but the story's twists reveal the restrictions and possibilities that some immigrants find when facing the prospect of assimilation within the West.
S. I Love You in particular comes to mind.) It's the story of a star-crossed romance between surfer college student Hinako (voiced by Rina Kawaei) and firefighter Minato (Ryota Katayose).
But if the death knell came with Mr. McCain's downward-turned thumb early Friday morning, the bill's failure has far deeper roots in this star-crossed era of unified Republican government.
So say the star-crossed lovers Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) in La La Land, regarding the one-woman show that aspiring actress Mia's written for herself to star in.
The sexual tension between these characters is blistering and Miller takes her sweet time seducing the reader to turn the pages, practically begging for these two star-crossed lovers to come together.
Harington, who stars as Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy epic, met wife Rose Leslie on set — they played a star-crossed couple, destined to enjoy cunnilingus and caves and nothing else.
Toronto R&B singer Jon Vinyl's latest video release for "Star-Crossed" is a sweet and sentimental look at that innocent love, and it will melt even the most steely of hearts.
With the news of Scandal's inevitable ending, the cancellation of The Catch, and the upcoming premiere of Still Star-Crossed, it looks like ABC is giving Rhimes plenty of its time slots.
Her film, featuring a very large knife along with, well, porn, tells the Romeo and Juliet-like story of two star-crossed lovers, said Pornhub vice president Corey Price in a statement.
She is right here and she is singing and sharing and engaging in this song about a star-crossed couple who can't even around each other because it's all just too much.
What remains to be seen is whether Still Star-Crossed can find that sweet spot again as it develops — or whether it will continue to coast along on its lavish, gorgeous aesthetic.
The film is "a modernistic, sexually explicit Romeo and Juliet-like depiction of two star-crossed lovers who have an unbridled sexual longing for each other," Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said.
Howards End famously features one of the driest and most unconvincing love stories of any of the marriage novels, a romance that makes Little Women's Jo and Professor Bhaer look star-crossed.
"Reckless," which was published in 2008, is an especially challenging journey to happily ever after, given that its star-crossed African-American lovers were lawyer and the cop who pulls her over.
If you're in the mood for a somewhat pessimistic romance, the site offers "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," a 2013 movie about star-crossed lovers and crime, written and directed by David Lowery.
"Forbear to judge based on only the premiere episode," Shakespeare wrote, or might have, and thus we shall not be too harsh on "Still Star-Crossed," which begins Monday night on ABC.
On Saturday night for its New Year's Eve gala, the Met introduced a new production of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" starring Mr. Grigolo and Ms. Damrau as Shakespeare's star-crossed adolescent lovers.
Jones and Doremus worked together previously on 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Like Crazy, which stars Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin as star-crossed lovers struggling with the byzantine American immigration system.
The 1957 Broadway musical about rival New York gangs was loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with Jets cofounder Tony falling into star-crossed love with Maria, sister of Sharks leader Bernardo.
Nicola Yoon's 2016 novel chronicles Daniel (played by Charles Melton in the new film) and Natasha (Yara Shahidi), two teens who can't escape the fate of their completely unlikely yet star-crossed romance.
The ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope, as the semi-star-crossed lovers, are radiant, and Max von Essen sings like a dream as an heir who aspires to a nightclub career.
In the end, the star-crossed lovers wind up together, but after attending so many formal ceremonies, they decide marriage is overrated and go a more modern (well, for the early '90s) route.
Since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival (where previous best picture winners La La Land and Birdman also debuted), the fourth iteration of the star-crossed love story has maintained impressive momentum.
Watching people make bad decisions is a lot more entertaining to me than watching two star-crossed lovers wait for the universe together and, in some ways, it is a bit more relatable.
In "Midsummer," the first act tells Shakespeare's story, in which Titania and Oberon fight over a Page, while the star-crossed lovers — Helena, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius — find themselves gravely and humorously mismatched.
In this case, the orphan (Freddie Highmore) just happens to be a musical prodigy, and it is music that will reunite him with his star-crossed parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
The Plot: The verdant island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific is the setting for this Romeo-and-Juliet romance, which features members of local tribes playing roles in a star-crossed romance.
Star-crossed lovers takes on a whole new meaning with Jon and Dany Alan Taylor, who directed the episode "Beyond the Wall," spoke to how he handled killing off one of Daenerys' reptilian children.
No greater odds have been stacked against a couple than the star-crossed lovers in the new game My Horse Prince: The story of a woman (you, the player) and her human-faced horse.
In the movie, the two play star-crossed lovers who, thanks to the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, can be no less than six feet apart at any time due to risk of sharing germs.
Last year's failed Still Star-Crossed took that ethos to its most revolutionary end, giving viewers a Black prince-turned-king (Sterling Sulieman) with an Iranian sister (Medalion Rahimi) for an ultra-competent princess.
Shonda Rhimes is breaking all of the rules with her new series Still Star-Crossed, which premiered at the end of May and picks up the story of Romeo and Juliet after their deaths.
Such is the case for star-crossed besties Merce and Mylee (you can tell they're nine years old by their extremely 2008 names) who parted ways this week before Merce's move out of state.
Giants 28, Eagles 23 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Last season, the Giants not only were a bad team but also seemed hopelessly star-crossed, losing four close games in the final 75 seconds of play.
The Mets still seem rather tentative, retaining Yoenis Cespedes but mostly just hoping to win with the same group of mismatched position players and star-crossed pitchers that captured a wild card last year.
Other standards of the Legrand canon include "I Will Wait for You" and "Watch What Happens," both from "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964), the writer-director Jacques Demy's musical tale of star-crossed love.
Spielberg's adaptation of West Side Story is set to begin filming in the summer of 2019 and also stars Ansel Elgort as Tony, one of the star-crossed lovers and a founder of the Jets.
Like the star-crossed young cancer patients in the best-selling novel and 123 film The Fault in Our Stars, each found a sympathetic ear, and an instant understanding, that swiftly evolved into something deeper.
Coombs, 32, is an actor best known for his role on CW's Reign, and is next set to star in the upcoming Shondaland series "Still Star-Crossed," a Romeo and Juliet-inspired series on ABC.
Like the star-crossed young cancer patients in the best-selling novel and 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars, they became inseparable, fell in love and took advantage of every moment they had together.
And in a twist on the star-crossed-lover plot of many of the works performed at the festivals, staging opera and running a country house are in many ways a match made in heaven.
The story of a peasant girl who falls in star-crossed love with an aristocrat, Island interwove themes of postcolonial culture clashes, class tensions, and skin-tone prejudice, all into a fun and colorful package.
For most of its first episode's hour-long running time, ABC's new drama Still Star-Crossed, the latest offering from Shonda Rhimes's ShondaLand production company, seems like an odd fit for Rhimes and her acolytes.
Lady and the Tramp stars Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux as the star-crossed canine lovers, as well as a handful of other stars who perfectly embody the animals they voice (cough, cough, Sam Elliott).
At 10, "STILL STAR-CROSSED," in which Shonda Rhimes ponders the aftermath of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," finds Rosaline Capulet (Lashana Lynch) and Benvolio Montague (Wade Briggs) forced into marriage to restore peace in Verona.
The Associated Press subsequently reported that then-National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and other aides argued against it on both practical and diplomatic grounds, noting the star-crossed history of U.S. intervention in Latin America.
The past 15 years have only served to ripen this tale of two star-crossed summer lovers, Allie and Noah, who persevere – despite meddling parents, lost mail and even a war – to keep their relationship alive.
And although the hoary tale of the billy goat that purportedly laid a hex on the club never quite caught on, the Northsiders' 108-year drought took on star-crossed proportions of its own in 2003.
Directed by: Richard LaGraveneseWritten by: Richard LaGraveneseAnother box-office failure that deserved better than it got, Beautiful Creatures is a star-crossed love story between mortal Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) and witch Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert).
Back in 2014 movie blogs were all over Spielberg mentioning during a "Good Morning America" interview that he was noodling a potential remake of the classic Broadway musical about a pair of star-crossed teen lovers.
"[My agents] flew up and were like, 'You have to do the opposite of what you're doing now or you're going to get fired today,'" Pattinson told Stern of his stoic approach to star-crossed love.
The film toys with existing tropes in mainstream Indian cinema  — star crossed lovers, neglected married woman, food as an aphrodisiac  — only to eventually desist their limitations, molding itself into a narrative whose ingenuity belies conventional expectations.
Now in its fourth season, the show explores everything from Star Trek-inspired tech nerd revenge in ("USS Callister,") the plight of overprotective mothers ("ArkAngel,") and the simulated fates of star-crossed lovers ("Hang the DJ").
With the announcement of this new addition, it would give Rhimes five shows on ABC, with Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How To Get Away Murder, new military drama For the People, and Shakespearean drama Still Star-Crossed.
Less a star-crossed romance, and more of a revenge tale Up until this point, things are chugging along fairly predictably — and prettily, thanks to the ravenous camera work of Park's longtime cinematographer Chung Chung-Hoon.
Written and directed by Steve de Jarnatt, Miracle Mile tells the story of two star-crossed lovers in the final hours before a nuclear apocalypse destroys Los Angeles (and presumably the rest of the United States).
At the same time, these extended chapters on trans advocacy, teeming with data and policy details, feel shallower than those that develop the star-crossed romance between McBride and the young transgender rights advocate Andrew Cray.
More than a dozen years before the hit film "La La Land" set an everyday urban romance to song, another pair of star-crossed lovers were making oddly similar music together on a New York stage.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 56%Summary: In the animated comedy "Gnomeo and Juliet," Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Blunt) are two star-crossed garden gnomes who fall in love despite an ongoing feud between their respective neighbors.
They share a very sweet goodbye — she loves him, but she's not in love with him, a tried-and-tested line of star-crossed junior high schoolers throughout history — and he tells Rachel he'll always love her.
"Million Dollar Quartet will capture the star-crossed Memphis moments which led to the most explosive pop culture movement of the 20th century, the birth of rock 'n' roll," said Brian Philips, CMT president, in a statement.
The star-crossed "Spider Bite" is a personal favorite; forceful percussion and Donovan's sharpened strings cut through the fog while its dancing singsong harmonies recall an older, wilder world, where witchery and danger lurked beyond every corner.
After meeting Michel Gondry and making the experimental short Pecan Pie, they teamed up with Charlie Kaufman and Kate Winslet to make one of the most devastating and surreal stories about star-crossed lovers since Romeo and Juliet.
The star-crossed engineer, who is not a defendant in the lawsuit (Alphabet is suing him in arbitration), started a new LIDAR company on the side before even leaving his perch on Google's self-driving team, Waymo alleges.
Together the film's star-crossed lovers, Clarence Worley—an Elvis fanboy played by a then-dreamy Christian Slater—and Alabama—who also serves the film's narrator—made trashy cool, and it's sort of stayed that way ever since.
Supergirl kicked off the event in the final moment of season 2's "Star-Crossed," when it's announced an unusual prisoner is entering the DEO, the alien-monitoring government agency Supergirl-slash-Kara Danvers is a member of.
While it's probably not a great idea to base your dating life on Shakespeare's most famous tale of star-crossed lovers, it's possible that Romeo and Juliet has greater relevance for modern dating than any of us thought.
But "Still Star-Crossed," her new soap that seeks to pick up where "Romeo and Juliet" left off, feels like an over-reach, a show for English lit majors whose parting won't evoke much sorrow, sweet or otherwise.
The film, about a pair of star-crossed creatives (Stone, Gosling) struggling to connect with each other and their respective careers in the entertainment industry, received seven total Golden Globe nominations in December, including one for best picture.
Instead, he is what he is, a talent for the ages with a well-earned asterisk he wears into retirement, or on his quest for a few more swings far from the stormy and star-crossed South Bronx.
Of course, the government incurred other costs in getting ObamaCare up and running—financing the creation of exchanges, launching its website, bankrolling star-crossed co-ops, promoting enrollment, and undertaking other efforts to implement and hype the law.
Bartman is the star-crossed fan who drew widespread scorn, accused of helping to extend the Cubs' World Series drought, after he interfered with a catchable foul ball in Game 219 of the 2003 National League Championship Series.
Ah Sahm and Mai Ling, star-crossed brother and sister on opposite sides of the Tong war, will have an eventual reckoning, and Ah Sahm and Leary (Dean Jagger), the monstrous Irish labor agitator, will eventually square off.
The last two shows, however -- the misguided caper "The Catch" and the Shakespeare-inspired "Still Star-Crossed" -- both failed, and whatever the commercial prospects of this latest pair, creatively, they both feel like tired versions of Shondaland Lite.
Most of the Avengers' fates are up in the air after Infinity War's ending, but one person likely to stay dead is Gamora, making this the most star-crossed and doomed MCU romance since Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter.
In many ways, the show covers well-trod territory: It's essentially a fairy tale, following Ti Moune (Hailey Kilgore), a girl chosen by the gods for a higher purpose, and her star-crossed romance with Daniel Beauxhomme (Isaac Powell).
While Gotham surely enjoyed the fan reaction to the possibility of a gay supervillain couple, the writing took the star-crossed romance only up to the point where Penguin confessed his love to The Riddler only to be rejected.
Marvel's TV properties are more often focused on action — see: Daredevil and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — than romance, but the blockbuster comic company is shifting to include a bit of star-crossed intrigue with its newest series, Cloak and Dagger.
Deb Shoval's "AWOL" showcases tender-tough performances by Lola Kirke and Breeda Wool in a story of star-crossed female lovers whose obstacles have less to do with societal norms than with the economic realities of Pennsylvania coal country.
One shadow looms over the new trilogy: Anakin and Padmé's impossible love story echoes through their grandson Ben, whose obsession (at first antagonistic, later mutual) with Rey reshuffles half a dozen facets of the first star-crossed love story.
Of course, Romeo and Juliet established the template for star-crossed lovers long ago; still, the star in "Five Feet Apart" might be more of an asterisk, one signaling that its young stars have bigger things in their futures.
What's fascinating about the story is that it exists at the intersection of a close male friendship which is expressed physically and a star-crossed queer relationship which isn't, in any way, being played for laughs by the bookers or wrestlers.
When they're together, however, Tennant and Sheen's chemistry shines, and the series twirls around their transition from an all-too-human complacence to a growing horror over the coming apocalypse — and the possible end of their long, star-crossed relationship.
The hospital's resident photographer Cassie Clayshulte, who was the first person to realize the amazing coincidence and snap a shot of the star-crossed newborns, asked the parents of both babies if they could come together for a second time.
On Monday, 20th Century Fox unveiled a photo showing stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler in character as Tony and Maria, the star-crossed lovers who originate from the Broadway musical, as well as the original film remake in 1961.
As the former Fixer Upper star crossed the finish line of the Silo District Half Marathon in Waco, Texas, he was joined by his daughter Ella, 11, and his 10-month-old son Crew, whom Chip was pushing in a stroller.
But there's one more twenty-first century pairing you should add to that list of ever-lasting, star-crossed matches, and that is Kim Kardashian and the designer behind Balmain and the majority of her most memorable custom looks, Olivier Rousteing.
For every pair of star-crossed lovers cruelly ripped apart by class divides and icebergs, there is a movie couple forced together by sentimental screenwriting — and, let's face it, a formidable audience demand to see romance triumph on the silver screen.
If the Still Star-Crossed team really wanted to make sure the young woman confirms she slept with Romeo, there are other ways to accomplish that than having a character who seems like a feminist start extolling the virtues of chastity.
The musical drama, which is directed by Damien Chazelle, reunites Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling onscreen for the third time as a pair of star-crossed lovers trying to make their relationship work as they both pursue careers in Hollywood.
Ross Douthat Like a star-crossed baseball team trying to close out a pennant, Hillary Clinton holds an advantage in the race for president that feels real yet not at all reassuring — for her partisans or for Trump fearers worldwide.
There's more to it than that, but basically this revival (under "The Vampire Diaries" producer Julie Plec) is an excuse to set up another star-crossed (literally, in this case) soap opera, albeit with more sex than the earlier incarnation.
Bleachers' new single, fittingly, sounds like it belongs at the end of a John Hughes movie when our two star-crossed lovers (certainly in two opposing social circles at their high school) get their priorities straight and totally make out.
It's a lot harder to sustain audience interest in a story about friends struggling together through professional and personal ups and downs than it is a story about star-crossed lovers who finally find their way back to each other.
Out There A star-crossed mission nearly 20 years in the making that was intended to seek an answer to the most burning, baffling question in astronomy — and perhaps elucidate the fate of the universe — is in danger of being canceled.
"Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers" (season 363, episode 353) Rory and Dean's three-month anniversary date is adorably teenaged — check that visual of them sipping their Cokes at the fancy restaurant — and their breakup is a great, revealing character moment.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%Synopsis: Adapted from the classic play by William Shakespeare, Michael Hoffman's retelling follows star-crossed lovers Demetrius (Bale), Helena (Calista Flockhart), Lysander (Dominic West), and Hermia (Anna Friel) as they wander a forest thick with fairies.
What has happened in the seven months since he disembarked at Manchester United has, then, seemed to be an attempt to make up for lost time, conducted with all the ardor of a late-in-life romance between star-crossed lovers.
PARK CITY, Utah — Wiener-Dog, the story of a sweet, calm, adorably devoted Dachshund on a star-crossed quest to find her permanent home, is one of the most morbidly dark, nihilistic and messed up things Sundance has ever shown us.
ABOUT THE FLAMES (19-20-2): Forward Lance Bouma's star-crossed season took another turn for the worse when he was cut by a skate in Monday's 33-4 loss to San Jose and is expected to be sidelined for a few weeks.
Joanna Kulig's performance in Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski's gorgeous three time Oscar-nominated film about star-crossed lovers struggling to be together despite the political and emotional forces determined to keep them apart, is one of the most dizzyingly electric of the year.
Since Twilight and True Blood inherited the "allegedly normal girl meets definitely special boy and chaos ensues" structure of the original Roswell, it's easy to understand why New Mexico will remind you of the star-crossed paranormal love stories of the aughts.
According to Deadline, everyone's favorite piece of '50s nostalgia (through the lens of the '70s, which, if Happy Days is any indication, really loved that era of Americana) is finally telling us how the star-crossed lovers Danny and Sandy first met.
It's been almost 500 years since Shakespeare first asked what's in a name, but in Europe, the debate is still roiling — with consequences that are far more global though no less dire than the ones that befell Verona's two star-crossed lovers.
The star-crossed golfer in this event was Matt Kuchar (pictured, left), a 39-year-old American with the bittersweet distinction of having collected the most career earnings among active players on the PGA Tour without a major title to his name.
So it went with the Swedish count Philip Christoph Königsmarck and German princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle, whose star-crossed romance is widely believed to have been snuffed out by Sophia's husband, a mean dude who later became King George I of Britain.
I can't imagine that the woman who put a diverse spin on a Shakespearean tragedy (Still Star-Crossed) and also killed Wes on How to Get Away With Murder is invested in the idea of a better tomorrow for the nation in Scandal.
The show accordingly gives us wedding massacres, Byzantine plots devised by silver-tongued rich people, women killing witless and cruel men with fire, a dozen pairs of star-crossed lovers, repetitive incest, gouged eyes, gorgeous vistas with ancient castles, and disgusting morbidity.
Darting through Olivia and Antonio's star-crossed tale, the supporting players prove a plucky, engaging lot, adding to the story's energy and resonance — none more so than Antonio's obstinate sister, Filomena, who emerges from the book's shadows to become its moral compass.
But I think that the revealer, STAR CROSSED LOVE, has less to do with the relative success of the couples and more to do with the fact that these pairs are stars who fell in love and are now crossed in the puzzle.
When Natasha finally succumbs to Anatole's charms, she does so because the narrative of the two of them as star-crossed lovers (rather than two people who just want to sleep together) helps her make sense of her otherwise fractured and conflicting emotions.
Star-crossed bodies like that of Derrick Rose, the franchise savior turned hometown pariah, have given fans plenty of time to speculate about what a fully healthy Bulls roster could accomplish as the antidote to nemesis LeBron James' dominion over the Eastern Conference.
" Yet "Your Name," which blends gender swapping with time travel, a natural disaster and star-crossed teenage lovers set to a J-pop soundtrack, is the second-biggest-grossing Japanese movie in the country's history, exceeded only by Mr. Miyazaki's "Spirited Away.
Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic follows two erratic days in the lives of star-crossed young lovers living in Paris: Jean-Paul Belmondo, playing a hoodlum on the lam after killing a cop, and Jean Seberg a an American expatriate newspaper vendor.
From the opening scenes in which Apollo ascends to the heavens to the Furies sweeping down from the skies to shatter the temple where the star-crossed lovers at the center of the story are to be married, the performance seems airborne.
" FROM PEN: Grammy News and Notes: Album of the Year Nominees He continues, "That is why Jamila and Roberto, the star-crossed lovers featured in the 'Surefire' music video, face a number of obstacles that are heavily rooted in the current state of America.
It's also insanely overstuffed, trying to make room for a star-crossed romance, an Indiana Jones-style archaeological adventure, a fantasy epic with giant sea monsters and the standard reluctant hero beats, all in a runtime that's a hair under two-and-a-half hours.
The final reason we're all so engrossed in the Jelena love affair is we're searching for the answer to one question: Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez star-crossed lovers with no shot of lasting forever, or are they truly destined to be together?
A lot of How to Talk to Girls at Parties looks like a standard young adult story with a supernatural bent: star-crossed lovers, a ticking clock, a need to stand up and defy adult authority in the name of rebellion and young infatuation.
In a review on the iTunes store for Star-Crossed Myth, for example, one user wrote that she had fallen "wholeheartedly, head over heels in love" with Scorpio, which is funny, because he literally told me that I was his and his alone several times.
Overall, while not the easiest introduction to the subject, this monumental work is an essential addition to ­the library of anyone interested in Russian history and the doomed dynasty of Romanovs, "blood-spattered, ­gold-plated, diamond-studded, swash-buckled, ­bodice-ripping and star-crossed."
That, too, has introduced a certain level of unevenness into the narrative, especially for those who, say, have lost interest in the frequently star-crossed romance of Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon), given all the impediments that have been thrown at them.
Andreas Schlager and Anja Kampe return to the title roles of the star-crossed lovers, while René Pape now appears as King Marke and Violeta Urmana as Isolde's maid, Brangäne (an earlier recording of the production is also available on the private television network mezzo.fr).
In 2016, he led the star-crossed Cubs to their first World Series championship in 3003 years, making himself an instant Chicago civic icon and adding luster to his baseball legend by winning with the savvy of years, unorthodox strategies and unflagging good cheer.
In the new Downton Abbey movie, King George V (Simon Jones) and Queen Mary (Geraldine James) make a visit to the esteemed estate — and from star-crossed romance to political intrigue to scathing insults over afternoon tea, the trip naturally causes all kinds of commotion.
Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic follows two erratic days in the lives of star-crossed young lovers living in Paris: Jean-Paul Belmondo, playing a French hoodlum on the lam after killing a cop, and Jean Seberg, portraying an American expatriate newspaper vendor.
Schilling, and Laura Prepon as her star-crossed lover Alex, might have been the initial stars, but actors like Brooks, Leyva, Uzo Aduba, Laverne Cox, and Samira Wiley soon became the best reasons to follow all the screwed-up ins and outs of Litchfield Penitentiary.
Knights with peacock headdresses, star-crossed lovers, mischievous elves, and armored giants fill these art-nouveau compositions, bringing to life 15 fairy tales collected by famed folklorists Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe as they traveled across Norway in the mid-19th century.
Its two stars, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, broke through in a major way as star-crossed lovers who reunite after years apart, as Patel's character appears on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" to try and reach out to Pinto's character.
Adam Basanta, the Montreal-based artist known for his experimental sound sculptures, recently developed a new kind of kinetic artwork that virtually recreates that classic movie scene where two star-crossed lovers start to spin on the dance floor in a sort physical culmination of their courtship.
Jake Gyllenhaal has played his share of intense characters – a star-crossed cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, a streetwise LAPD officer in End of Watch, a cold-blooded crime-scene chronicler in Nightcrawler – but none was more fraught, or rewarding, than his breakout role in Donnie Darko.
And while Brown praised a cold-shooting Thompson for his aggressive chasing of Kyrie Irving, it could also be argued that the first-year assistant coach, known for his defensive acumen through a somewhat star-crossed career, has been the Warriors' second-most significant addition this season.
SEOUL, South Korea — The star-crossed Samsung Galaxy Note 7 — the ambitious new smartphone whose problems with fires prompted an unprecedented and costly product axing, warnings from airlines and a host of one-liners from late-night comedians — may be headed back into the hands of consumers.
"The O.C." The early-2000s teen drama "The O.C." used Mr. Buckley's "Hallelujah" twice in the first season: once in the second episode, during an intimate moment between the star-crossed high school lovers Marissa and Ryan, and again in the finale, before the main characters all part ways.
With video games having long ago eclipsed Hollywood as the largest entertainment economy in the world, and players spending an average of six hours a week gaming, it stands to reason that some star-crossed lovers would eventually meet as they battled their way through their preferred electronic pastime.
Shakespeare's devastating play may never have been quite as lush and surreal as it was in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 take, which depicted the star-crossed lovers (here played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) trying desperately to make things work between their families in modern day Venice, California.
With the storms over Brexit temporarily calmed by Mr. Johnson's victory, but the underlying economic and social issues far from resolved, the royals have become a convenient proxy, allowing people to argue about race, class, gender and British identity, through the travails of a single star-crossed couple.
Combative romantic banter between star-crossed lovers was all the rage in the '80s (see "Moonlighting"), and season 3 uses the clip to foreshadow a major theme, setting up expectations -- and unexpected twists -- between several of the series' simmering pairings, including Mike and Eleven, Joyce and Hopper and Steve and Robin.
During Super Bowl LIV, the streaming service unveiled a sexy new TV spot featuring three of its upcoming MCU series: the gritty The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, featuring Cap's two best friends; the trippy WandaVision, following the star-crossed lovers of the Avengers; and the still-very-mysterious Loki.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that the young bro, whom we shall call SkaterBoy, had zero idea that I existed (he was a jock, I a theater geek — how star-crossed can you get, right?), somehow this movie implanted in my mind the idea that true love was possible for teenagers.
It's clear that our star-crossed couple loves each other unconditionally (which is why we'll always root for them, even when Barry's being boneheaded), so it's especially painful to see them on the rocks — particularly because Grant Gustin's misty eyes could rival Superman's heat vision when it comes to melting our hearts.
Based on the famous New York Times "Modern Love" column, which also inspired a podcast of the same name, the series debuted this past Friday, and once fans recovered from the stories of heartbreak and star-crossed lovers, they all had the same burning question: What is that opening song in the credits?
With Rudy Giuliani emerging as the face of Donald Trump's star-crossed operation to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine, the former vice president is using the former New York mayor-turned-presidential-fixer in a different capacity — as a foil in his own effort to fight back against Trump's relentless attacks.
New York mag cover story, "Donald Trump Is Not Invited to the Wedding: Joe, Mika, and their star-crossed relationship with the president," by Olivia Nuzzi: Scarborough and Brzezinski said the White House is misrepresenting their motivations, though they didn't rule out that Scarborough might be interested in running for president in the future.
There's a simple reason films like Equals, Equilibrium, and THX 1138 keep coming back In Drake Doremus' chilly new science fiction film Equals, Silas (Nicholas Hoult) and Nia (Kristen Stewart) star as star-crossed lovers with a familiar problem: they live in a future world that's supposedly fixed all its problems by eradicating emotion.
BENJAMIN WEST'S PAINTING, 1778 West, one of the most important artists of early America, was inspired by the ever more common public presentations of Shakespeare's work in the 18th century, and perhaps by the connection between the play's star-crossed lovers and the relationship between the United States and Britain during the American Revolution.
Especially notable are "Francisca" (1981, showing Sunday), a story of 19th-century romantic treachery that achieves a fascinating tension in the contrast between Mr. Oliveira's burnished imagery and his actors' flat, declamatory style, and "Doomed Love" (1979, Friday and Saturday), a tale of star-crossed lovers that flaunts its stagelike backdrops, chiaroscuro compositions and unconventional shooting and editing rhythms.
What started as a Romeo and Juliet–esque story about star-crossed interplanetary lovers Alana and Marko and their child, Hazel, has bloomed into a more enveloping and complex tale about family, loss, and, in its upcoming arc, a time jump that changes almost everything we thought we knew about the characters we've grown to love.
And though I'm sure that some people find the loves of their lives at that age, I definitely wasn't one of them, and despite all the maneuvering I did to get SkaterBoy to notice me, none of it worked — but, idiot that I was, I just thought it meant we were all the more star-crossed.
I imagine the same is true of fans in a dozens of other star-crossed sports towns, where game days send fans to bed seething with anger and disappointment, where drafts and trades receive more scrutiny than any political candidate ever fears, and everyone becomes increasingly aware of how long The Drought has been going on.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this was my favorite season for star-crossed couple Alex (Laura Prepon) and Piper (Taylor Schilling) in quite a while — using the two simply to offer snide commentary on the injustices around them while attempting to wash their hands of them fit the season's overall critique of power structures and those who unknowingly perpetuate them.
There have been plenty of star-crossed productions in Met history, including the premiere of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" that opened the Met's Lincoln Center home in 1966 (amid serious last-minute technical glitches and labor woes) and Robert Lepage's recent "Ring" cycle (built around a 45-ton set that had a habit of breaking down).
What "Star-Crossed" can't do, at least in the early going, is provide much incentive to care about its characters, despite the appealing Anthony Head and Zuleikha Robinson as Lord and Lady Capulet, Grant Bowler as Lord Montague and Lashana Lynch as Juliet's cousin Rosalind, who gets caught in the middle of a plan to save the fair city of Verona.
That romantic picture of star-crossed love is the stuff of many a country music video: a quick shot of two lovestruck teenagers skittering past disapproving old Dad and his cocked shotgun, hauling ass in their Sunday best across state lines in the sticky dark heat of a Mississippi summer to say "I do" and find out what the future holds.
It's been more than a year since Outlander last graced our screens, but it's clear that the time-traveling drama intends to make up for lost time in its action-packed third season, which will explore the two decades that our star-crossed couple, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan), spent apart following the Battle of Culloden, as well as their journey back together.
And when that came, perhaps as soon as the autumn, there would be every possibility that the electorate would again deliver a result that hands the majority of votes and seats to two populist parties that remain deeply wary of each other, that disagree on how to get Italy working for ordinary people, yet who still may well end up working together in a star-crossed coalition.
Since the show ended in 25, he has become increasingly associated with collectible cars, especially Porsches, first through the star-crossed construction of a bunkerlike garage near his Upper West Side home and, more recently, through his web series, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," which gives nearly as much time to vintage automobiles as it does to its guests, who have included Mel Brooks and President Obama.
Mr. Knauer also executes one of the brightest bits of Jason Wise's lively choreography while recalling an indiscretion from his past in "The Gypsy in Me." The young lovers whose star-crossed romance accounts for many complications are ably played by Patti-Lee Meringo (as Hope, Lord Evelyn's conflicted fiancée) and Josh Canfield (as Billy Crocker, a fledgling stockbroker who stows away to be with Hope).
But in the second section we see the story through Hideko's perspective — including a startling revelation about what exactly she and her Japanophile uncle work on all day together (it's not what you think, not exactly) — and the film becomes less a story of star-crossed lovers and more a revenge tale (a Park specialty) for the objectified and belittled women at its center.
The actor plays Jeff Gillooly, Harding's on-again/off-again-eventually-ex-star-crossed-lover and in the presence of other acting powerhouses—Robbie and Janney have been widely praised for their performances as the titular skater and her mother, respectively—he holds his own with a surprising amount of nuance, considering some of his bad (not good!) behavior depicted in the duration of the film.
Yoon's central teenage lovers are the definition of star-crossed: Daniel is the romantic, poetry-loving son of striving Korean immigrants who run a black hair-care shop and expect their son to become a doctor; science-minded Natasha is Jamaican, brought to the US illegally by her parents when she was a child, and her family is facing imminent deportation unless she can somehow change their fate.
Price: $22 on Amazon Image Comics / 1,328 pages / August 2019 One of Josh's book recommendations for 2019 is a graphic novel that is expansive in scope (as one would hope for a paperback that runs for more than a 1,000 pages): Possibly the greatest non-superhero action graphic novel, this is a tale of star-crossed lovers from different planets trying to raise their child amidst an intergalactic war.
When Game of Thrones debuted on HBO in 25, it was strictly understood to be an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a suburban sprawl of a fantasy series by a permanently deadline-haunted writer named George R. R. Martin who looked vaguely like the sea captain on a cereal box and whose previous ventures into television included the 23s Twilight Zone revival and star-crossed, sewer-world romance Beauty and the Beast.
"I have one little fight sequence left with Anthony Mackie's character and when it's over, my body will be happy, but my heart will be like, Aw." Altered Carbon will be a love story Although Altered Carbon season 2 promises to be filled with John Wick-ish "gun fu" and jaw-dropping displays of fisticuffs, the cast and crew want fans to know this story isn't a simple action adventure — it's a romance between star-crossed lovers/ultimate fighters Kovacs and Quell.
Whether it&aposs Peter Strzok and his star-crossed lover, or if it&aposs Loretta Lynch and her decision to punt on the entire thing after the meeting on the tarmac with Bill Clinton and hand the whole thing to James Comey, or all the other characters that clearly had an unmistakable bias here, and especially when you stop and consider the final decision that they made when James Comey comes out and gives this withering indictment of Hillary Clinton over the email thing and then says but we&aposre not going to indict her.
Instead of "Mean Streets" — or "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "After Hours" or "Raging Bull" or "The Age of Innocence" — we picked Mr. Scorsese's "New York, New York" (1977), starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro as star-crossed musicians making their way through the city's show-business demimonde in the years after World War II. The nostalgia of Mr. Scorsese's vision of that era in the city is edged with cynicism, but his tribute to the creativity of the moment is as heartfelt and exuberant as "On the Town," Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1949 musical.

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