"subterfuges to plunder his foes' wealth. The original series concept was a blend of ""Bonanza"" with a rich, western patriarch and his three dissimilar sons, ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" with its rival brothers, and their scheming wives, and ""Romeo and Juliet"" with two star-crossed lovers whose families are sworn enemies. The focus of the series was initially the feuding families, with J.R. just a supporting character, but his popularity grew and the producers acknowledged he became the breakout character. Two highly rated 1980 episodes became part of a cultural phenomenon that year known as ""Who shot J.R.?"". In"
"Star-crossed ""Star-crossed"" or ""star-crossed lovers"" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being ""thwarted by a malign star"" or that the stars are working against the relationship. Astrological in origin, the phrase stems from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play ""Romeo and Juliet"" by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Such pairings are often said to be doomed from the start. The phrase was coined in the prologue"
"deciding on the 28th day of their separation whether they will stay together or remain apart. Star-crossed ""Star-crossed"" or ""star-crossed lovers"" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being ""thwarted by a malign star"" or that the stars are working against the relationship. Astrological in origin, the phrase stems from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play ""Romeo and Juliet"" by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Such pairings"
"is to complete conflicting tasks: Hong Luanxing, the Love Star, now is a lawyer and has to break couples up. Gu Guaxing, the Lonesome Star, now has to pair singles up. Each of them has to break up/pair up 100 couples before their punishment is considered complete. Xingxing and Jingjing fell in love with Ziyan and Yiqin respectively later on in the show. In the end, both of the angels went back to heaven after completing their punishments and Xingxing broke another rule on purpose again in order to be sent back to Earth, so that she can be with"
"and plunged into the whitened water, just as Lillinonah's canoe struck a rock in the middle of the river and capsized, spilling her into the frothy current. Swiftly as he could, he swam to her side and clasped her body to him. Alas, neither realized that it was already too late. Still wrapped in loving embrace, the doomed pair disappeared into the boiling falls and were crushed to death as they were hurled to the rocks in the broad pool below. They say that when the battered bodies of the star-crossed lovers were finally found, they were still locked in"
"the concept of the couple being star-crossed lovers was first introduced. In May 1898, the ""Washington Evening Star"" reported that two elderly people visited the grave and told church superintendent Webb that the female stranger was a ""connection"" of theirs, an English noble who ran away with a British officer for love. They also said that they would visit again with more details, but never returned. Many subsequent accounts have included all or most of these elements. There is also an addition of two local women, also sworn to secrecy, helping the Stranger during her illness. The most modern retelling"
"the star crossed lovers with the effect that the Capulets and Montagues are reunited and their fighting ends. Tybalt is the son of Lady Capulet's brother and Juliet's hot-headed first cousin. As a skilled swordsman, he serves as the story's principal antagonist. Tybalt is angered by the insult of Romeo and Benvolio's uninvited presence at the ball in the Capulets' home. Tybalt shares the same name as the character Tibert/Tybalt the ""Prince of Cats"" in ""Reynard the Fox"", a point of both mockery and compliment to him in the play. While Mercutio repeatedly calls Tybalt ""Prince of Cats"" (referring to"
"Heights"", considered to be one of the greatest love stories in literary works, is a tale of all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between the star-crossed Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. Lancelot, a trusted knight of King Arthur's Round Table, and Guinevere, the queen of Camelot and wife of Arthur, were involved in a star-crossed affair. In some versions of the tale, she is instantly smitten, and when they consummate their adulterous passion, it is an act which paves the way for the fall of Camelot and Arthur's death."
"labeled as notable and ""unforgettable"" love stories. IGN considers Buffy Summers and Angel from ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" to be one of the genre's most tragic and notable star-crossed pairings. The Doctor bidding farewell to his companion Rose Tyler in ""Doctor Who"" has been named one of the greatest love scenes in science fiction. Cole Turner and Phoebe Halliwell from ""Charmed"", Michael and Nikita from ""La Femme Nikita"", Kara Thrace and Lee Adama from ""Battlestar Galactica"", Clark Kent and Lana Lang from ""Smallville"", as well as Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer from ""One Tree Hill"" are other star-crossed couples from"
"Star-Crossed Lovers (film) Star-Crossed Lovers (, King's Children; also known as ""Invincible Love"") is a 1962 East German film directed by Frank Beyer. Magdalena and Michael are two children from working-class families in Berlin, who have sworn to marry each other. When they grow older, after the Nazis rose to power, Michael is arrested for being a member of the Communist Party of Germany. Magdalena joins the underground party to continue his work. Jürgen, a friend of the two who is now a storm trooper, tries to convince her not to become a communist. During the Second World War, Michael"
"heavenly bodies, the stars in the sky form the basis of many fairy tales. For example, the Summer Triangle is the trio of the cowherd (Altair), the weaving maiden fairy (Vega), and the ""tai bai"" fairy (Deneb). The two forbidden lovers were separated by the silvery river (the Milky Way). Each year on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar, the birds form a bridge across the Milky Way. The cowherd carries their two sons (the two stars on each side of Altair) across the bridge to reunite with their fairy mother. The tai bai fairy"
"have been cited as a well-known star-crossed love story. Tidus and Yuna from ""Final Fantasy X"" have also been called star-crossed lovers. Zero and Iris from ""Mega Man X4"" are another notable example. In 2008, a web-based reality soap opera was created based on the concept of being star-crossed. In ""Starcrossed"", Fox News astrologer Greg Tufaro takes a couple in crisis and separates them for one cycle of the moon. Each is then set up with individuals who are a better match astrologically. The show puts the question ""Is love written in the stars?"" to the test with the couple"
"her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means ""Driven mad by Layla"". To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic Arabic poems, considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school. The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The legend is sometimes regarded as the Chinese equivalent to Romeo and Juliet. Other classic star-crossed lovers include Devdas and Paro (Parvati) in ""Devdas"", Paris of Troy and Helen of Sparta in ""The Iliad"", Oedipus and Jocasta"
"that surround them. For instance, when Romeo swears his love to Juliet by the moon, she protests ""O swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."" From the very beginning, the lovers are designated as ""star-cross'd"" referring to an astrologic belief associated with time. Stars were thought to control the fates of humanity, and as time passed, stars would move along their course in the sky, also charting the course of human lives below. Romeo speaks of a foreboding he feels in the stars' movements"
"having been away at sea, returns where Jeannie's distressed maidens tell him that Jeannie has been married in his absence and has now died of a broken heart. Annachie tells the maidens to take him to the chamber where Jeannie lies and then, having kissed her cold lips, also dies of a broken heart. The words were printed in Maidment's ""North Countrie Garland"" (1824) and in Buchan's ""Ancient Ballads and Songs 2"" (1828). The tune was first printed in Bronson's ""Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads"". The story features a classic version of star crossed lovers (most often associated with"
"Romeo to be a vandal, Paris confronts him and, in the ensuing battle, Romeo kills Paris. Still believing Juliet to be dead, he drinks the poison. Juliet then awakens and, discovering that Romeo is dead, stabs herself with his dagger and joins him in death. The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all three dead. Friar Laurence recounts the story of the two ""star-cross'd lovers"". The families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud. The play ends with the Prince's elegy for the lovers: ""For never was a story"
"a great deal of the viewers were rooting for this couple. The racial issues were touched upon very intelligently by the writers, acknowledged, yet not ridiculed. As Cruz and Eden began dating during this period, their differing ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, became major hurdles in their relationship. Both Eden's father, C.C. Capwell and Cruz's mother, Carmen, did not approve of the relationship for these reasons. Despite this, Cruz and Eden continued with their relationship and were soon engaged. However, as with any supercouple, more problems ensued that jeopardized the relationship. One involved the investigation into Channing's murder (Eden's older brother)."
"the gangsters. Mi-ju ends up going to Japan and In-ho goes to jail. Years later, he finds a job at a steel company and gets scouted by its owner to be his personal secretary and bodyguard. Life gets a little easier for him, until suddenly Mi-ju reappears ― as his boss’s mistress. In-ho has held onto his unwavering love for Mi-ju throughout his prison term and long days of separation, and for Mi-ju, it has always been impossible to forget her beloved In-ho. But the more their love for each other deepens, the more difficult it becomes for the star-crossed"
"kind enough to allow the couple to reunite once a year on the 七夕 (the 7th Evening) -- later known as the traditional Chinese Qixi Festival -- by crossing the Milky Way. In memory of this story, ancient Chinese astrologers named two prominent stars that stand at a distance from each other 牛郎, ""shepherd man,"" and 織女, ""weaving girl."" These are the stars Altair in the constellation Aquila and Vega in Lyra. Tian Xian Pei Tian Xian Pei (), sometimes translated as ""Fairy Couple"", is a Chinese legend that existed in oral tradition before any written versions. It has since"
"of ""DEFA's most important tradition: the dealing with the Nazi past."" Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman commented that the antifascist cause was shown by the picture to be ultimately more important than the romantic ideals. At 1985, the film was withdrawn from circulation by the DEFA Commission, after Armin Mueller-Stahl and other members of the crew emigrated to West Germany. Star-Crossed Lovers (film) Star-Crossed Lovers (, King's Children; also known as ""Invincible Love"") is a 1962 East German film directed by Frank Beyer. Magdalena and Michael are two children from working-class families in Berlin, who have sworn to marry each"
"leaving them to pursue a sure way into that immortality they coveted. They become immortals in death along with even more fame and has as well achieved their goal from the beginning. They die in the name of their love when they really die in the name of fame. A status of nobility higher than us and pity for the tragedy that is their relationship. The tragedy is Antony and Cleopatra's own happy ending as death was a small price to pay to become real gods. They proved that the only death that could touch them were by their own"
"their fight. After they struggle, the girls' consciousness revoke from their trance. They began to apologize toeach other and promised that they will never be apart, thus reliving their friendship. But when Rowana and Cornelia's souls were still fighting, Lucy & Shane were killed in the lighthouse. The next six months, Norman and Angelie were reconciled. Afterwards, Norman returns to Beth who gives birth to twins. Angelie arrives in the hospital to take one of the twins as their negotiation. In the ultrasound, the twins revealed to be the reincarnation of Lucy and Shane. During the wrath of Typhoon Ondoy,"
"her eye,<br> If poor Love shall live or die."" ""Two On A Tower"" is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is eight years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart. This is Hardy's most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age"
"Starcrossed (2014 film) Starcrossed is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Chase Mohseni. The films stars Mischa Barton, Eric Roberts, Grant Harvey, Ben Reed and Kristin Carey. The film premiered at the San Diego International Film Festival on 28 September 2014. This was followed by a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles in May 2016. Ben (Harvey) and Kat (Barton) meet in a bar and make an instant connection. Despite their youth, they both have older lovers, Anthony (Reed) and Lucy (Carey). Anthony and Lucy are married, and by pure coincidence they happen to show up at"
"of Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"": It also refers to destiny and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing. It usually but not always refers to ""unlucky"" outcomes, since Romeo and Juliet's affair ended tragically. Further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally. Examples of famous star-crossed lovers vary in written work. Pyramus and Thisbe are usually regarded as the source for ""Romeo and Juliet"", and is featured in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". ""Wuthering"
"the genre. Clarke Griffin and Commander Lexa from the TV series ""The 100"" are considered star-crossed lovers as well. With film or within modern novels and books, such star-crossed couples as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater from ""Titanic"", Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan from ""A Walk to Remember"", Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala from the ""Star Wars"" saga, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist from ""Brokeback Mountain"", and Jake and Neytiri from ""Avatar"" have been included. Video games too have featured star-crossed couples across different genres, particularly role-playing video games: Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough from ""Final Fantasy VII"""
"they bonded and soon became romantically involved. During their journeys, the two were accidentally transported to an alternate future Earth that was ruled by the evil daughter of Shi'ar Empress Lilandra and Charles Xavier. Bishop and Deathbird helped the rebels in opposing her and Deathbird defeated her niece in a duel. She could have slain her, and every instinct told her to do so, but she let her live. The heroes of the liberated Earth helped Bishop and Deathbird return to their own time, and they continued their quest to get home. Eventually, Bishop and Deathbird return to the Sol"
"the player character in carrying out attacks on one another. This plotline also features a forbidden romance reminiscent of Johnse Hatfield and Roseanne McCoy. Names in red indicate those who were killed as a direct result of the feud.Names in orange highlight intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.Numbers in green square brackets [ ] are cross references to the timeline in the ""Deaths"" section above Names in red indicate those who were killed as a direct result of the feud.Names in orange highlight intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.Numbers in green square brackets [ ] are cross-references to the timeline in the"
"their meeting would be unlikely. Rosaline thus acts as the impetus to bring the ""star-cross'd lovers"" to their deaths—she is crucial in shaping their fate (a common theme of the play). Ironically, she remains oblivious of her role. Literary critics often compare Romeo's love for Rosaline with his feelings for Juliet. Some see Romeo's supposed love for Rosaline as childish as compared with his true love for Juliet. Others argue that the apparent difference in Romeo's feelings shows Shakespeare's improving skill. Since Shakespeare is thought to have written early drafts of the play in 1591, and then picked them up"
"she is in fact held captive by Cain and the evil, long lost Capwell daughter, Elena. Cruz mourned Eden, but eventually learned that she was still alive. Unfortunately Eden is paralyzed, but after many sorrow-filled scenes, the pair are reunited. Cruz is arrested for the murder of Elena, however, which begins more torment for the star-crossed pair. Eventually, it was discovered that Elena committed suicide, in which she was trained by Kirk. Despite teaching her how to die, Kirk was unable to do the same when faced police, and was taken into custody. Cruz was cleared, and the couple were"
"later erotically compares Romeo and death. Right before her suicide, she grabs Romeo's dagger, saying ""O happy dagger! This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die."" Scholars are divided on the role of fate in the play. No consensus exists on whether the characters are truly fated to die together or whether the events take place by a series of unlucky chances. Arguments in favour of fate often refer to the description of the lovers as ""star-cross'd"". This phrase seems to hint that the stars have predetermined the lovers' future. John W. Draper points out the parallels between"
"careers making youth flicks and musical movies and eventually became a ""love team"". They were first paired as a love team in the movie ""Young Girl"" (1969); the movie did well at the box office and was just the start of many more box-office successes in decades of reign as the most popular Philippine love team of all time. What made the team very popular and well received was the unconventional pairing of Aunor and Cruz. Aunor is short and dark, while Cruz is tall and a ""mestizo type"", but fans loved them. Fans got hysterical with their singing together"
"his relationships with childhood friend Tifa Lockhart and flower girl Aerith Gainsborough. Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough have been called video games' greatest, as well as its most tragic, star-crossed love story. The couple is also one of the most well-known video game couples in the history of video gaming. In 2005, ""Electronic Gaming Monthly"" stated that without the game, ""Aeris wouldn’t have died, and gamers wouldn’t have learned how to cry"". Other popular couples from the ""Final Fantasy"" games include Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly (from ""Final Fantasy VIII""), Zidane Tribal and Princess Garnet til Alexandros (from ""Final Fantasy"