Yes, Racine, the author of Andromaque, Bérénice, and Phèdre.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 12:31:04 pm PDT #8391 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Scrappy - Mar 09, 2009 12:38:28 pm PDT #8392 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ionesco.
lisah - Mar 09, 2009 12:41:14 pm PDT #8393 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate
Ionesco
Oh, der! I always think of him as being Italian for some reason.
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 12:44:27 pm PDT #8394 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, der! I always think of him as being Italian for some reason.
Wrong romance language (He's French/Romanian).
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 12:57:32 pm PDT #8395 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Okay, just two left...
sconeio IONESCO
necair RACINE
smaud (fils) DUMAS, FILS
bearsamauchi
gouh HUGO
oucecat
rerats SARTRE
tebckte* BECKETT
Enhanced Clue #1:
While one of the missing author’s plays was adapted to be an Italian opera, the composer was neither from Italy nor France, but rather from a third European country. The action of the play takes place in yet a fourth European country.
Enhanced Clue #3:
This "renaissance man" is probably best known for his film work, although he never worked for Disney. Unlike Disney, he probably would have voted against Prop 8.
You all would have smoked the TAR competition.
Vortex - Mar 09, 2009 1:39:10 pm PDT #8396 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
rerats SERRAT
Playwright, not painter, Vortex! smacks self on forehead.
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 1:47:05 pm PDT #8397 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Silly. French painters would be a much longer list.
Scrappy - Mar 09, 2009 1:57:37 pm PDT #8398 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Beaumarchais!
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 2:01:31 pm PDT #8399 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Scrappy coming in for the clinchers!
Yes, Beaumarchais, who wrote both Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro.
I'm surprised no one's gotten the last one, I thought that he was one of the better known on the list, although maybe not for his plays.
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 2:26:31 pm PDT #8400 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Since I’m about to leave for after-work drinks, the missing answer is Cocteau, playwright and (Vortex) painter, who is probably best known for his film Beauty and the Beast.