BS: Greatest Love Story?

Subject: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 06:49 PM

Go on Folks.. what was the greatest Love story ever written????

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Cluin
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 09:52 PM

Lady & the Tramp

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:03 PM

Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" (but I've never been sure: is the primary love interest Molly, or is it the bike?).

His "Beeswing" is right up there as well.

Oh, and Richard Lovelace's "To Althea from Prison."

Funny how smoothly a whole lifetime of love story fits into a song or a poem, and what a challenge it can be to spread it out over a 350-page novel.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: CamiSu
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:37 PM

Joan D Vinge's Tin Soldier. Always made me fall in love again with my husband.

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: kendall
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:38 PM

Doctor Zhivago

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:32 PM

Me and Winona...but it has yet to be written.

I figure maybe in my next incarnation. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 02:37 AM

Ha. You're dreaming, Little Hawk. In actuality, it happened in your last incarnation- and wouldn't you know- you blew it. I was your neighbor and I saw it all. I felt so sorry for you; you were so young. *g*

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:15 AM

Major and Currie was a not inconsiderable story concerning affection.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:34 AM

Musically Tom Waits "Martha". Literaturely Richard Vaughan "Moulded In Earth".

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 11:25 AM

Roger and Jessica Rabbit

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 01:24 PM

Hey! Good one.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 01:35 PM

"The Dutchman" by Michael Smith is, at least, on my short list.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 02:01 PM

What the heck...I nominate Winona Ryder and Gary Oldman playing Mina and Dracula in the film "Bram Stoker's Dracula".

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 02:39 PM

Dante & Beatrice

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: GUEST,MM
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 02:45 PM

I was thinking more along the lines of the greatest love stories ever stolen from ET, like...

Anna Nicole and Howard Stern. Or Princess Di and Princess Di.

True love birds of our era, all. They proved beyond a shadow of a doubt just how messy love--and bird shit!--can be.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:36 PM

You didn't say song. "Romeo and Juliet" obviously. "Pride and Prejudice". "Wuthering Heights" (my top three).

Others worth noting: "Lady With a Pet Dog" (Chekov); "War and Peace" (Natasha and Andrei).

In terms of sheer insane obsessive love, "Lady of Shalott" (Loreena McKinnet's version comes to mind) is pretty close to the top.   

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:47 PM

Mike Stearns and Rebecca Abaravanel

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 04:20 PM

"When You and I were Young Maggie"

Be prepared. I expect a "thumper" to come by at any minute and say the Bible. Be nice....

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 04:23 PM

Lassie ?
National Velvet?
A Boy and His Dog? by Harlan Ellison

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 04:39 PM

Actually, I believe Peter T. has it right...it would have to be "Romeo and Juliet".

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 04:48 PM

John Gray and Bobby

Greyfriar's Bobby

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 05:37 PM

The Holy Bible

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 06:14 PM

Ketchup and Potatoes, if Mr. connors is to be believed...

The Ketchup Song
by Stompin' Tom Connors

There was a guy from PEI, they used to call Potato
He met this young Leamington, Ontario Tomato
But he had eyes for other girls and she was a little mushy
So they said, "Well, let's get wed; there's no sense bein' fussy"

Baked sized, french fries, how they love tomatoes
So dress 'em up with Heinz ketchup
Ketchup loves Potatoes
Ketchup loves Potatoes

Well, he went down to Windsor town, to buy a ring on Monday
Saturday, they said, "Okay, we'll cut the cake on Sunday"
But Sunday came, and what a shame, they had no one to fetch it
Without a cake, they just sat and ate potato chips and ketchup

(chorus)

And so this guy from PEI, they used to call Potato
Got two boys and a little girl: two spuds a one tomato
They romp and run around Leamington, and, boy, when they get hungry
The bottle drips all over the chips, way down in the ketchup country

(chorus)

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 09:55 AM

Jane Eyre

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: JenEllen
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 11:07 AM

Lucy and Ricky. 'Nuff said.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 12:34 PM

ARGH!!! Watching that show was like getting a root canal with no freezing.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 01:17 PM

Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west.

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 02:51 PM

On Film: There are so many, but most recently;
Wedding Crashers. John (Owen Wilson) and Claire (Rachel MacAdams).
The type of people they were: Their backgrounds, lifestyles, and how
John started to change his ways when he actually conversed with Claire,
and realized that he was falling in love with her, and wanted to reveal
his initial intentions. (Even though Jeremy,(Vince Vaughn) tried to
convince him not to do so). Also, how Claire was already in a serious
relationship with somebody else. It's kind of hard to describe the
other parts of the story without spoiling the ending for someone who
hasn't seen it.

Musical Love Story: Hmmm......I'll have to think about that one.

Book: I haven't read any romance novels. Mostly historical books, so I
can't voice my opinion on that one, yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 03:00 PM

For sheer implausibility:

John & Yoko

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: JenEllen
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 09:54 PM

LH, spot on. When isn't love like a root canal sans freezing?

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 10:33 PM

Perhaps Hamlet.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 10:41 PM

Paris Hilton & Paris Hilton.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 06:41 PM

Burton and Taylor?

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 06:45 PM

Holly Burton and James Taylor? I hadn't even heard the rumours!

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 02:22 AM

Good job it wasn't Bryan Ferry and Britney Spears..... UK members will understand that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 05:02 AM

I think I prefer more 'ordinary' love stories to the great ones. Some of my favourites:

Collete 'Cheri' and 'The Last of Cheri' - a Mature French courtesan and her younger lover, and the death of an age of innocent indulgence.
Alain Fornier 'Les Grande Meulnes' - the death of a potent dream of love, which carries a whole country of 'otherness', upon the reality of capturing it.
Molly Keane 'Devoted Ladies' - obsessive psycho-sexual powerplay between 20's lesbian lovers.
'Great Expectations' - for Estelle, the only psychologically mature young woman Dickens ever penned.

As for 'greats' I don't think anyones mentioned 'Gone With the Wind' or 'Wuthering Heights' yet? All good melodramatic fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 05:15 AM

The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Range Rider and his young friend Dick West
The Cisco Kid and Pancho

Christopher Isherwood and Sally Bowles

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 12:36 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Cluin - PM
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 10:41 PM

Paris Hilton & Paris Hilton.



Reply:
Laughing Out Loud. It's funnier, because it's true.
Kudos, Cluin, Kudos.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 01:00 PM

When she grows up, Hilton may surprise people.

Now, Voyager

Random Harvest

Now THOSE were romances!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 01:58 PM

Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara???? Maybe....

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: *Laura*
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 08:35 PM

Wuthering Heights!!


Also.... it's not been around long enough to know whether it will stand the test of time.... but has anyone read 'The Time Traveller's Wife'? That could be on it's way.....

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 05:06 PM

Tigger & Tilly, my dog and cat.   

Tilly (cat) spent 15 minutes last night kissing Tigger's face all over, before curling up next to him and closing her eyes tight shut for the entire night.

Tigs tries to repair his damaged reputation by snapping at her feet now and then, but she simply turns round and kisses him.

And he gives in to her, every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 09:05 PM

Babette's Feast

The Edge of Heaven

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 09:44 PM

i always thought the liasions in Robert louis Stevensons epic were a bit suspect:-

David Balfour and alan Breck Stewart

Long John Silver (long for esotericreasons?) and Jim ('smart as paint') Hawkins.

Dick Seldon (the transvestite) and the hero(whose name I forget) in The Back Arrow.

Wouldn't be surprised if any of those couples didn't end up in a bungalow in Hove: doing the gay disco every week; coming home each evening to cuddle up with a hot cocoa, and a Tom Robinson video.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:58 AM

Slag had it.....
As far as movies, I can't believe everyone left out 'Somewhere in Time' AND, 'The Notebook'!!!!!
If you haven't seen those, go do it......NOW!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:09 AM

"Somewhere in Time" I got sick of when I used to play Mackinac Island.

And "The Notebook", even my Jane Austen & Bronte Sisters loving sister found too girly.

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Megan L
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:20 AM

The greatest love story of all time ?

Hmmmmmm it has tae be Dauvitt and his Meg :)

Subject: RE: BS: Greatest Love Story?
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:55 AM

Two of Jez Lowe's....Another Man's Wife....The Bergin.