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Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton | |
Keaton in March 2011 |
Born | Diane Hall January 5, 1946 Los Angeles, California, United States |
Occupation | Actress, director, producer, writer |
Years active | 1968–present |
Children | Dexter Keaton Duke Keaton |
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America.[1] In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, and occasional singer.
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Early life and education [edit]
Keaton was born as Diane Hall on January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.[2] Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton; 1921–2008), was a homemaker and amateur photographer; her father, John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall (1921–1990), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.[2][3] Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish-American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family. Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother.[4] Her mother won the "Mrs. Los Angeles" pageant for homemakers; Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to her wanting to work on stage.[5] She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations.[6]
Keaton is a 1963 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there, she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan.[7] Upon joining the Actors' Equity Association, she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall.[8] For a brief time, she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act.[9] She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977) and a cameo in Radio Days (1987).
Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She initially studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique first evolved in the 1930s by Sanford Meisner, a New York stage actor/acting coach/director who had been a member of The Group Theater (1931–1940). She has described her acting technique as, "[being] only as good as the person you're acting with ... As opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a wonderful performance without the help of anyone. I always need the help of everyone!"[9] According to her Reds co-star Warren Beatty, "She approaches a script sort of like a play in that she has the entire script memorized before you start doing the movie, which I don't know any other actors doing that."[10]
In 1968, Keaton became a member of the "Tribe" and understudy to Sheila in the original Broadway production of Hair.[11] She gained some notoriety for her refusal to disrobe at the end of Act I when the cast performs nude, even though nudity in the production was optional for actors (Those who performed nude received a $50 bonus).[5][12] After acting in Hair for nine months, she auditioned for a part in Woody Allen's production of Play It Again, Sam. After nearly being passed over for being too tall (at 5 ft 8 in./1.73 m she is two inches/5 cm taller than Allen), she won the part.[3]
Career [edit]
1970s [edit]
After being nominated for a Tony Award for Play It Again, Sam, Keaton made her film debut in 1970's Lovers and Other Strangers. She followed with guest roles on the television series Love, American Style and Night Gallery, and Mannix. Between films, Keaton appeared in a series of deodorant commercials.
Keaton's breakthrough role came two years later when she was cast as Kay Adams, the girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino) in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 blockbuster The Godfather. Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in Lovers and Other Strangers, and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role[13] (Keaton claims that at the time she was commonly referred to as "the kooky actress" of the film industry).[5] Her performance in the film was loosely based on her real life experience of making the film, both of which she has described as being "the woman in a world of men".[5] The Godfather was an unparalleled critical and financial success, becoming the highest grossing film of the year and winning the Best Picture Oscar of 1972.
Two years later she reprised her role as Kay Adams in The Godfather Part II. She was initially reluctant, stating that, "At first, I was skeptical about playing Kay again in the Godfather sequel. But when I read the script, the character seemed much more substantial than in the first movie."[7] In Part II her character changed dramatically, becoming more embittered about her husband's activities. Even though Keaton received widespread exposure from the films, her character's importance was minimal. Time wrote that she was "invisible in The Godfather and pallid in The Godfather, Part II."[14]
Keaton's other notable films of the 1970s included many collaborations with Woody Allen. Although by the time they made films together, their romantic involvement had ended, she played many eccentric characters in several of his comic and dramatic films including Sleeper, Love and Death, Interiors, Manhattan, and the film version of Play It Again, Sam, directed by Herbert Ross. Allen has credited Keaton as his muse during his early film career.[15]
In 1977, Keaton starred with Allen in the romantic comedy Annie Hall, one of her most famous roles. Annie Hall was written and directed by Allen and the film was believed to be autobiographical of his relationship with Keaton. Allen based the character of Annie Hall loosely on Keaton ("Annie" is a nickname of hers, and "Hall" is her original surname). Many of Keaton's mannerisms and her self-deprecating sense of humor were added into the role by Allen. (Director Nancy Meyers has claimed "Diane's the most self-deprecating person alive".[16]) Keaton has also said that Allen wrote the character as an "idealized version" of herself.[17] The two starred as a frequently on-again, off-again couple living in New York City. Her acting was later summed up by CNN as "awkward, self-deprecating, speaking in endearing little whirlwinds of semi-logic",[18] and by Allen as a "nervous breakdown in slow motion."[19] The film was both a major financial and critical success, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Keaton's performance also won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked Keaton in Annie Hall as 60th on its list of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time":
It's hard to play ditzy. ... The genius of Annie is that despite her loopy backhand, awful driving, and nervous tics, she's also a complicated, intelligent woman. Keaton brilliantly displays this dichotomy of her character, especially when she yammers away on a first date with Alvy (Woody Allen) while the subtitle reads, 'He probably thinks I'm a yoyo.' Yo-yo? Hardly.[20]
Keaton's eccentric wardrobe in Annie Hall, which consisted mainly of vintage men's clothing, including neckties, vests, baggy pants, and fedora hats, made her an unlikely fashion icon of the late 1970s. Most of the clothing seen in the film came from Keaton herself, who was already known for her tomboyish clothing style years before Annie Hall, though Ruth Morley and Ralph Lauren reportedly worked on the movie's costume.[7][21] Soon after the film's release, men's clothing and pantsuits became popular attire for women.[22] She is known to favor men's vintage clothing, and usually appears in public wearing gloves and conservative attire. (A 2005 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle described her as "easy to find. Look for the only woman in sight dressed in a turtleneck on a 90-degree afternoon in Pasadena.[23]) Keaton would later reprise her Annie Hall appearance when she attended the 2003 Academy Awards presentation in a men's tuxedo and a bowler hat.
Her photo by Douglas Kirkland appeared on the cover of the September 26, 1977, issue Time magazine with the story dubbing her "the funniest woman now working in films."[14] Later that year, she departed from her usual lighthearted comic roles when she won the highly coveted lead role in the drama Looking for Mr. Goodbar, based on the novel by Judith Rossner. In the film she played a Catholic schoolteacher for deaf children who lives a double life, spending nights frequenting singles bars and engaging in promiscuous sex. Keaton became interested in the role after seeing it as a "psychological case history."[24] The same issue of Time commended her role choice and criticized the restricted roles available for female actors in American films:
A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull. ... Now a determined trend spotter can point to a handful of new films whose makers think that women can bear the dramatic weight of a production alone, or virtually so. Then there is Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars.[14]
In addition to acting, Keaton has stated that "[I] had a lifelong ambition to be a singer."[25] She had a brief, unrealized career as a recording artist in the 1970s. Her first record was an original cast recording of Hair, in 1971. In 1977, she began recording tracks for a solo album, but the finished record never materialized.[3]
Keaton met with more success in the medium of still photography. Like her character in Annie Hall, Keaton had long relished photography as a favorite hobby, an interest she picked up as a teenager from her mother. While traveling in the late 1970s she began exploring her avocation more seriously. "Rolling Stone had asked me to take photographs for them, and I thought, 'Wait a minute, what I'm really interested in is these lobbies, and these strange ballrooms in these old hotels.' So I began shooting them", she recalled in 2003. "These places were deserted, and I could just sneak in anytime and nobody cared. It was so easy and I could do it myself. It was an adventure for me." Reservations, her collection of photos of hotel interiors, was published in book form in 1980.[26]
1980s [edit]
After Manhattan in 1979, Keaton and Woody Allen ended their long working relationship, and the film would be their last major collaboration until 1993. In 1978, Keaton became romantically involved with Warren Beatty, and two years later he cast her to play opposite him in Reds. In the film, she played Louise Bryant, a journalist and feminist, who flees from her husband to work with radical journalist John Reed (Beatty), and later enters Russia to locate him as he chronicles the Russian Civil War. The New York Times wrote that Keaton was, "nothing less than splendid as Louise Bryant – beautiful, selfish, funny and driven. It's the best work she has done to date."[27] Keaton received her second Academy Award nomination for the film.
Beatty cast Keaton after seeing her in Annie Hall, as he wanted to bring her natural nervousness and insecure attitude to the role. The production of Reds was delayed several times since its conception in 1977, and Keaton almost left the project when she believed it would never be produced. Filming finally began two years later. In a 2006 Vanity Fair story, Keaton described her role as "the everyman of that piece, as someone who wanted to be extraordinary but was probably more ordinary ... I knew what it felt like to be extremely insecure." Assistant director Simon Relph later stated that Louise Bryant was one of her most difficult roles, and that "[she] almost got broken."[28]
1984 brought The Little Drummer Girl, Keaton's first excursion into the thriller and action genre. The Little Drummer Girl was both a financial and critical failure, with critics claiming that Keaton was miscast for the genre, such as one review from The New Republic claiming that "the title role, the pivotal role, is played by Diane Keaton, and around her the picture collapses in tatters. She is so feeble, so inappropriate."[29] However, that same year she received positive reviews for her performance in Mrs. Soffel, a film based on the true story of a repressed prison warden's wife who falls in love with a convicted murderer and arranges for his escape. Two years later she starred with Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek in Crimes of the Heart, adapted from Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play into a moderately successful screen comedy. She starred in her first commercial vehicle with 1987's Baby Boom, her first of four collaborations with writer-producer Nancy Meyers. In Baby Boom, Keaton starred as a Manhattan career woman who is suddenly forced to care for a toddler. That same year she made a cameo in Allen's film Radio Days as a nightclub singer. 1988's The Good Mother was a misstep for Keaton. The film was a financial disappointment (according to Keaton, the film was "a Big Failure. Like, BIG failure"),[30] and some critics panned her performance, such was one review from The Washington Post: "her acting degenerates into hype – as if she's trying to sell an idea she can't fully believe in."[31]
In 1987, Keaton directed and edited her first feature film, a documentary named Heaven about the possibility of an afterlife. Heaven met with mixed critical reaction, with The New York Times likening it to "a conceit imposed on its subjects."[32] Over the next four years, Keaton went on to direct music videos for artists such as Belinda Carlisle, two television films starring Patricia Arquette, and episodes of the series China Beach and Twin Peaks.
1990s [edit]
By the 1990s, Keaton had established herself as one of the most popular and versatile actors in Hollywood. Now middle-aged, she shifted to more mature roles, frequently playing matriarchs of middle-class families. Of her role choices and avoidance of becoming typecast, she said: "Most often a particular role does you some good and Bang! You have loads of offers, all of them for similar roles ... I have tried to break away from the usual roles and have tried my hand at several things."[33]
She began the decade with The Lemon Sisters, a poorly received comedy/drama that she starred in and produced, which was shelved for a year after its completion. In 1991, Keaton starred with Steve Martin in the family comedy Father of the Bride. She was almost not cast in the film, as the commercial failure of The Good Mother had strained her relationship with Walt Disney Pictures, the studio of both films.[30] Father of the Bride was Keaton's first major hit after four years of commercial disappointments.
Keaton reprised her role four years later in the sequel, as a woman who becomes pregnant in middle age at the same time as her daughter. A review of the film for The San Francisco Examiner was one of many in which Keaton once again received comparison to Katharine Hepburn: "No longer relying on that stuttering uncertainty that seeped into all her characterizations of the 1970s, she has somehow become Katharine Hepburn with a deep maternal instinct, that is, she is a fine and intelligent actress who doesn't need to be tough and edgy in order to prove her feminism."[34]
Keaton reprised her role of Kay Adams in 1990's The Godfather Part III. Set 20 years after the end of The Godfather, Part II, Keaton's part had evolved into the estranged ex-wife of Michael Corleone. Criticism of the film and Keaton again centered on her character's unimportance in the film. The Washington Post wrote: "Even though she is authoritative in the role, Keaton suffers tremendously from having no real function except to nag Michael for his past sins."[35] In 1993, Keaton starred in Manhattan Murder Mystery, her first film with Woody Allen since 1979. Her part was originally intended for Mia Farrow, but Farrow dropped out of the project after her split with Allen.[36]
In 1995, Keaton directed Unstrung Heroes, her first theatrically released narrative film. The movie, adapted from Franz Lidz's memoir, starred Nathan Watt as a boy in 1960s whose mother (Andie MacDowell) becomes ill with cancer. As her sickness advances and his inventor father (John Turturro) grows increasingly distant, the boy is sent to live with his two eccentric uncles (Maury Chaykin and Michael Richards). In a geographic switch, Keaton shifted the story's setting from the New York of Lidz's book to the Southern California of her own childhood. Though it played in a relatively limited release and made little impression at the box office, the film and its direction were well-received critically.[37]
Keaton's most successful film of the decade was the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club. She starred with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler as a trio of "first wives": middle-aged women who had been divorced by their husbands in favor of younger women. Keaton claimed that making the film "saved [her] life."[38] The film was a major success, grossing US$105 million at the North American box office,[39] and it developed a cult following among middle-aged women.[40] Reviews of the film were generally positive for Keaton and her co-stars, and she was even referred to by The San Francisco Chronicle as "probably [one of] the best comic film actresses alive."[41] In 1997, Keaton, along Hawn and Midler, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors "outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry".[42]
Also in 1996, Keaton starred as Bessie, a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Room, an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson. Meryl Streep played her estranged sister Lee, although had initially been considered for the role of Bessie. The film also starred a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Streep's rebellious son. Roger Ebert stated that "Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems."[43] Keaton earned a third Academy Award nomination for the film. Although critically acclaimed, the film was not released on a wide scale, possibly costing Keaton the Oscar. Keaton said that the biggest challenge of the role was understanding the mentality of a person with terminal illness.[5]
In 1999 Keaton narrated the one-hour public-radio documentary, "If I Get Out Alive," the first to focus on the conditions and brutality faced by young people in the adult correctional system. The program, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media, aired on public radio stations across the country, and was honored with a First Place National Headliner Award and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.[44]
2000s [edit]
Keaton's first film of 2000 was Hanging Up with Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow. Keaton also directed the film, despite claiming in a 1996 interview that she would never direct herself in a film, saying "as a director, you automatically have different goals. I can't think about directing when I'm acting."[30] The film was a drama about three sisters coping with the senility and eventual death of their elderly father, played by Walter Matthau. Hanging Up rated poorly with critics and grossed a modest US$36 million at the North American box office.[45]
In 2001, Keaton co-starred with Warren Beatty in Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only US$7 million in its North American theatrical run.[46] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claimed that Town & Country was "less deserving of a review than it is an obituary....The corpse took with it the reputations of its starry cast, including Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton."[47] Also in 2001, and 2002, Keaton starred in four low-budget television films. She played a fanatical nun in the religious drama Sister Mary Explains It All, an impoverished mother in the drama On Thin Ice, and a bookkeeper in the mob comedy Plan B. In Crossed Over, she played Beverly Lowry, a woman who forms an unusual friendship with the only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker.
Keaton's first major hit since 1996 came in 2003's Something's Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Jack Nicholson. Nicholson and Keaton, aged 66 and 57 respectively, were seen as bold casting choices for leads in a romantic comedy. Twentieth Century Fox, the film's original studio, reportedly declined to produce the film, fearing that the lead characters were too old to be bankable. Keaton commented about the situation in Ladies' Home Journal: "Let's face it, people my age and Jack's age are much deeper, much more soulful, because they've seen a lot of life. They have a great deal of passion and hope—why shouldn't they fall in love? Why shouldn't movies show that?"[48] Keaton played a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with her daughter's much older boyfriend. The film was a major success at the box office, grossing US$125 million in North America.[49] Roger Ebert wrote that "Nicholson and Keaton bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for."[50] The following year, Keaton received her fourth Academy Award nomination for her role in the film.
Keaton's only film between the years of 2004 and 2006 was the comedy The Family Stone (2005), starring an ensemble cast that also included Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, and Craig T. Nelson. In the film, scripted and directed by Thomas Bezucha, Keaton played a breast cancer survivor and matriarch of a big New England family, who reunites at the parents' home for their annual Christmas holidays.[51] The film was released to moderate critical and commercial success,[52] and earned US$92.2 million worldwide.[53] Keaton received her second Satellite Award nomination for her portrayal,[54] on which Peter Travers of Rolling Stone commented, "Keaton, a sorceress at blending humor and heartbreak, honors the film with a grace that makes it stick in the memory."[55]
In 2007, Keaton starred in both Because I Said So and Mama's Boy. In the romantic comedy Because I Said So, directed by Michael Lehmann, Keaton played a long-divorced mother of three daughters, determined to pair off her only single daughter Milly, played by Mandy Moore.[56] Also starring Stephen Collins and Gabriel Macht, the project opened to overwhelmingly negative reviews by critics, with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe calling it "a sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches," and was ranked among the worst-reviewed films of the year.[57][58][59] The following year, Keaton received her first and only Golden Raspberry Award nomination to date.[54] In Mama's Boy, director Tim Hamilton's feature film debut, Keaton starred as the mother of a self-absorbed 29-year old (played by Jon Heder) whose world turns upside down when his widowed mother starts dating and considers booting him out of the house. Distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only, the independent comedy garnered largely negative reviews.[60]
In 2008, Keaton starred alongside Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler in Vince Di Meglio's dramedy Smother, playing the overbearing mother of an unemployed therapist, who decides to move in with him and his girlfriend following the split from her husband, played by Ken Howard. As with Mama's Boy, the film received a limited release only, resulting into minor gross of US$1.8 million worldwide.[61] Critical reaction to the film was generally unfavorable,[62] and once again Keaton was dismissed for her role choices, with Sandra Hall of the New York Post writing, "Diane's career is dyin' [...] this time, sadly, she's gone too far. She's turned herself into a mother-in-law joke."[63] Also in 2008, Keaton appeared alongside Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah in the crime-comedy film Mad Money, directed by Callie Khouri. Based on the British television drama Hot Money (2001), the film revolves around three female employees of the Federal Reserve who scheme to steal money that is about to be destroyed.[64] As with Keaton's previous projects, the film bombed at the box offices with a gross total of US$26.4 million,[65] and was universally panned by critics, ranking third in the New York Post's Top 10 Worst Movies of 2008 overview.[66]
2010s [edit]
In 2010, Keaton starred alongside Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford in Roger Michell's comedy Morning Glory, playing the veteran TV host of a fictional morning talk show that desperately needs to boost its lagging ratings. Portraying a narcissistic character that would do anything to please the audience, Keaton described her role as "the kind of woman you love to hate."[67] Inspired by Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway play The Sunshine Boys,[68] the film became a moderate success at the box office for a worldwide total of almost US$59 million.[69] Though some critics found that Keaton was underused in the film,[70] the actress was generally praised for her performance, with James Berardinelli of ReelViews noting that "Diane Keaton is so good at her part that one can see her sliding effortlessly into an anchor's chair on a real morning show."[71]
In fall 2010, Keaton joined the production of the comedy drama Darling Companion by Lawrence Kasdan, which was released in 2012. Co-starring Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest and set in Telluride, Colorado,[72] the film follows a woman, played by Keaton, whose husband loses her much-beloved dog at a wedding held at their vacation home in the Rocky Mountains, resulting in a search party to find the pet.[73] Kasdan's first film in nine years, the film bombed at the US box office, where it scored about US$790,000 throughout its entire theatrical run.[74] Generally negative with the film, critics dismissed the film as "an overwritten, underplotted vanity project," but applauded Keaton's performance.[75][76] Ty Burr from The Boston Globe felt that the film "would be instantly forgettable if not for Keaton, who imbues [her role] with a sorrow, warmth, wisdom, and rage that feel earned [...] Her performance here is an extension of worn, resilient grace."[76]
Also in 2011, Keaton began production on Justin Zackham's ensemble comedy The Big Wedding (released in 2013), in which she, along with Robert De Niro, played a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son's wedding and his very religious biological mother, pretend they are still married.[77] In addition, Keaton has been cast in the family comedy One Big Happy alongside Steve Martin,[78] The Look of Love, an independent romance film, with Ed Harris,[79] and the romantic comedy And So It Goes..., a collaboration with Michael Douglas and director P. J. Hogan.[80]
Personal life [edit]
Relationships and family [edit]
Keaton had bulimia during the early 1970s.[81] Her most famous romance was with director Woody Allen. Keaton and Allen first met during her audition for the Broadway production of Play It Again, Sam, but they did not know each other personally until having dinner after a late night rehearsal. Allen claims that Keaton's sense of humor attracted him to her.[82] They briefly lived together during the Broadway run of Play It Again, Sam, but their relationship became less formal by the time the film version was produced in 1972.[83] They worked together on eight films between 1971 and 1993.
In 1979, she began dating her Reds co-star Warren Beatty.[84] Keaton's involvement with Beatty also made her a regular subject of tabloid magazines and media at the time, a role she was unaccustomed to. (As a result of her avoiding the spotlight, Vanity Fair described her in 1985 as "the most reclusive star since Garbo".)[8] Beatty and Keaton separated shortly after completing Reds. Their separation was believed to have been caused by the strain of making the film, a troubled production with numerous financial and scheduling problems.[28] Keaton still maintains contact with both Allen and Beatty, and describes Allen as one of her closest friends.[17]
Keaton also had a relationship with Al Pacino, her co-star in The Godfather Trilogy. The on-again, off-again relationship ended following the filming of The Godfather Part III. Referring to the relationship, Keaton has said "Al was simply the most entertaining man... To me, that's, that is the most beautiful face. I think Warren was gorgeous, very pretty, but Al's face is like whoa. Killer, killer face."[85] Pacino, who seems to have been the love of Keaton's life, never agreed to her marriage ultimatums, and their lengthy relationship ended when her father was dying of brain cancer.[84]
In July 2001, Keaton publicly announced that she had given up pursuing romance, and stated, "I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage."[86] Keaton has two adopted children, daughter Dexter (adopted 1996) and son Duke (2001). Keaton decided to become a mother at the age of 50 after the death of her father, when she began to realize her own mortality.[38] She later said of having children, "Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had."[87]
Religious beliefs [edit]
Keaton stated that she produced her 1987 documentary Heaven because, "I was always pretty religious as a kid ... I was primarily interested in religion because I wanted to go to heaven" but also stated that she considered herself an agnostic.[88]
Raised a Methodist, Keaton stated in an October 2002 television interview with Oxygen that although she currently believes in God,[citation needed] she considered herself an atheist for a period of her life.
Other activities [edit]
Keaton is an opponent of plastic surgery. She told More magazine in 2004, "I'm stuck in this idea that I need to be authentic ... My face needs to look the way I feel."[6] Keaton is also active in campaigns with the Los Angeles Conservancy to save and restore historic buildings, particularly in the Los Angeles area.[9] Among the buildings she has been active in restoring is the Ennis House in the Hollywood Hills designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.[23] Keaton had also been active in the failed campaign to save the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (a hotel featured in Reservations), the location of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968.
Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Since summer 2006, Keaton has been the new face of L'Oréal.[89]
Keaton has served as a producer on films and television series. She produced the Fox series Pasadena, that was canceled after airing only four episodes in 2001 but later completed its run on cable in 2005. In 2003, she produced the Gus Van Sant drama Elephant, about a school shooting. On why she produced the film, she said "It really makes me think about my responsibilities as an adult to try and understand what's going on with young people."[90]
Outside of the film industry, Keaton has continued to pursue her interest in photography. As a collector, she told Vanity Fair in 1987: "I have amassed a huge library of images – kissing scenes from movies, pictures I like. Visual things are really key for me."[88] She has published several more collections of her own photographs, and has also served as an editor for collections of vintage photography. Works she has edited in the last decade include a book of photographs by paparazzo Ron Galella; an anthology of reproductions of clown paintings; and a collection of photos of California's Spanish-Colonial-style houses.
Keaton has also established herself as a real estate developer. She has resold several mansions in Southern California after renovating and redesigning them. One of her clients is Madonna, who purchased a US$6.5 million Beverly Hills mansion from Keaton in 2003.[91] She received the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Gala Tribute in 2007.
Keaton wrote her first memoir, entitled Then Again, for Random House in November 2011.[92] Much of the autobiography relies on her mother Dorothy's private journals, in which she writes at one point: "Diane...is a mystery...At times, she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me."[93]
In 2012, Keaton's audiobook recording of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem was released at Audible.com.[94] Her performance was nominated for a 2013 Audie Award in the Short Stories/Collections category.
Filmography [edit]
Film [edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1970 | Lovers and Other Strangers | Joan Vecchio | |
1971 | Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story | Renata Wallinger | Short film |
1972 | The Godfather | Kay Adams | |
1972 | Play It Again, Sam | Linda | |
1973 | Sleeper | Luna Schlosser | |
1974 | The Godfather Part II | Kay Adams | |
1975 | Love and Death | Sonja | |
1976 | I Will... I Will... For Now | Katie Bingham | |
1976 | Harry and Walter Go to New York | Lissa Chestnut | |
1977 | Annie Hall | Annie Hall | |
1977 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Theresa | |
1978 | Interiors | Renata | |
1979 | Manhattan | Mary | |
1981 | The Wizard of Malta | Narrator | |
1981 | Reds | Louise Bryant | |
1982 | Shoot the Moon | Faith Dunlap | |
1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | Charlie | |
1984 | Mrs. Soffel | Kate Soffel | |
1986 | Crimes of the Heart | Lenny Magrath | |
1987 | Radio Days | New Years Singer | |
1987 | Baby Boom | J.C. Wiatt | |
1988 | The Good Mother | Anna | |
1989 | The Lemon Sisters | Eloise Hamer | |
1990 | The Godfather Part III | Kay Adams Michelson | |
1991 | Father of the Bride | Nina Banks | |
1993 | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Carol Lipton | |
1993 | Look Who's Talking Now | Daphne (voice) | |
1995 | Father of the Bride Part II | Nina Banks | |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Annie Paradis | |
1996 | Marvin's Room | Bessie | |
1997 | The Only Thrill | Carol Fitzsimmons | |
1999 | The Other Sister | Elizabeth Tate | |
2000 | Hanging Up | Georgia Mozell | |
2001 | Town & Country | Ellie | |
2001 | Plan B | Fran Varecchio | |
2003 | Something's Gotta Give | Erica Barry | |
2005 | Terminal Impact | Narrator | |
2005 | The Family Stone | Sybil Stone | |
2007 | Smother | Marilyn Cooper | |
2007 | Because I Said So | Daphne Wilder | |
2007 | Mama's Boy | Jan Mannus | |
2008 | Mad Money | Bridget Cardigan | |
2010 | Morning Glory | Colleen Peck | |
2012 | Darling Companion | Beth | |
2013 | The Big Wedding | Ellie Griffin | |
2014 | And So It Goes | Pre-production |
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1970 | Love, American Style | Segment: "Love and Pen Pals" | |
1970 | Rod Serling's Night Gallery | Nurse Frances Nevins | 1 episode |
1971 | The F.B.I. | Diane Britt | Episode: "Death Watch" |
1971 | Mannix | Cindy Conrad | Episode: "The Color of Murder" |
1977 | The Godfather Saga | Kay Adams Corleone | TV miniseries |
1992 | Running Mates | Aggie Snow | TV film |
1994 | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Amelia Earhart | TV film |
1997 | Northern Lights | Roberta Blumstein | TV film |
2000 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Diane Keaton | Episode: "Interior Decorator" |
2001 | Sister Mary Explains It All | Sister Mary Ignatius | TV film |
2002 | Crossed Over | Beverly Lowry | TV film |
2003 | On Thin Ice | Patsy McCartle | TV film |
2006 | Surrender, Dorothy | Natalie Swallow | TV film |
2011 | Tilda | Tilda Watski | TV film |
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Year | Award | Category | Production | Result |
1977 | New York Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Nominated |
1977 | National Board of Review | Best Supporting Actress | Annie Hall | Won |
1977 | National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Annie Hall | Won |
1977 | New York Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | Annie Hall | Won |
1978 | Academy Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Annie Hall | Won |
1978 | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Annie Hall | Won |
1978 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Nominated |
1978 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy | Annie Hall | Won |
1978 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Actor | Nominated | |
1978 | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Annie Hall | Won |
1979 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | Nominated | |
1979 | Fotogramas de Plata | Best Foreign Movie Performer | Interiors & Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Won |
1980 | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Manhattan | Nominated |
1981 | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Reds | Nominated |
1982 | Academy Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Reds | Nominated |
1982 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | Nominated | |
1982 | National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Reds | Nominated |
1982 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama | Reds | Nominated |
1982 | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Acterss | Reds | Won |
1983 | National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Shoot the Moon | Nominated |
1983 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | Nominated | |
1983 | Golden Globe | Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Shoot the Moon | Nominated |
1983 | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Reds | Nominated |
1985 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Mrs. Soffel | Nominated |
1988 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | Baby Boom | Nominated |
1988 | National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Baby Boom | Nominated |
1990 | Daytime Emmy | Outstanding Achievement in Directing - Special Class | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Nominated |
1991 | Hasty Pudding Theatricals | Woman of the Year | Won | |
1994 | CableAce Awards | Actress in a Movie or Miniseries | Running Mates | Nominated |
1994 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Nominated |
1995 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Nominated |
1995 | New York Women in Film & Television | Muse Award | Won | |
1995 | Primetime Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Nominated |
1995 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Nominated |
1995 | CableAce Awards | Actress in a Movie or iniseries | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Nominated |
1996 | Golden Apple Awards | Female Star of the Year | Nominated | |
1996 | National Board of Review | Best Acting by an Ensemble | The First Wives Club | Won |
1997 | Academy Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Marvin's Room | Nominated |
1997 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Marvin's Room | Nominated |
1997 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast | Marvin's Room | Nominated |
1997 | Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards | Crystal Award | Won | |
2001 | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Modern Master Award | Hanging Up | Won |
2003 | National Board of Review | Best Actress | Something's Gotta Give | Won |
2003 | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2003 | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | U.S. Comedy Arts Festival | AFI Star Award | Won | |
2004 | Academy Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Critics Choice Award - Best Actress | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | Something's Gotta Give | Won |
2004 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Something's Gotta Give | Nominated |
2004 | Satellite Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical | Something's Gotta Give | Won |
2005 | Satellite Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical | The Family Stone | Nominated |
2005 | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Family Stone | Nominated |
2005 | Hollywood Film Festival | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | |
2007 | Film Society of Lincoln Center | Gala Tribute | Won | |
2008 | Razzie Awards | Worst Actress | Because I Said So | Nominated |
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Further reading [edit]
- Lax, Eric. Woody Allen: A Biography (Paperback). ISBN 0-306-80985-0. Da Capo Press; Updated edition (December 2000).
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The Ars Hotel Rome is situated in a quiet residential area of Montesacro just a few minutes from the centre of Rome. The hotel's quiet location makes it the ideal place to rest between business meetings and conferences or to pass a pleasant holiday in this charming area.
The Ars Hotel is noted for its warm and relaxed atmosphere. The property is housed in a beautiful 4-storey villa surrounded by a small garden. On-site amenities include a solarium terrace, a fitness room with steam showers, a meeting room, a bar and a lovely reading lounge with LCD tv. All rooms are luminous and spacious, making them the perfect place to unwind. Outdoor private parking facilities are furthermore available.
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Ars Hotel is located in Monte Sacro, in a residential area amongst the Tevere, the Aniene, via Nomentana and via Salaria, 15 minutes from Termini station and the historical centre of Rome.
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In Abrahamic religions, Noah (/ˈnoʊ.ə/[1]) or Noé or Noach, (Hebrew: נֹחַ, נוֹחַ, Modern Noaẖ Tiberian Nōăḥ; Arabic: نُوح Nūḥ; Ancient Greek: Νῶε) was the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The story of Noah and the Ark is told in the Genesis flood narrative, and also told in Sura 71 of the Quran. The Biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham. Outside Genesis his name is mentioned in 1 Chronicles, Isaiah, Ezekiel, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Hebrews and the 1st and 2nd Epistles of Peter. He was the subject of much elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions, including the Qur'an.
Biblical account
Noah was the tenth of the pre-Flood Patriarchs. His father Lamech named him nûaḥ (the final ḥ is a more guttural sound than the English h), saying, "This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed."[2] This connects the future patriarch's name with nāḥam, "comfort", but it seems better related to the word nûaḥ, meaning "rest", and is more a play on words than a true etymology.[3][4]
In his five hundredth year Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. In his six hundredth year God, saddened at the wickedness of mankind, sent a great deluge to destroy all life, but because Noah was "righteous in his generation" God instructed him to build an ark and save a remnant of life.
After the Flood, Noah offered a sacrifice to God, who promises never again to destroy all life on Earth by flood[9:11] and creates the rainbow as the sign of this "everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth"[9:12-17], also known as the Noahic covenant. After this, Noah became a husbandman and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and was uncovered within his tent. Noah's son Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his brethren and Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan.[5]
Noah died 350 years after the Flood, at the age of 950,[6] the last of the immensely long-lived antediluvian Patriarchs. The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, diminishes rapidly thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses.
In 10:1-3 of the Book of Enoch, the Archangel Uriel is dispatched by God to inform Noah of the approaching flood.[7]
The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2500 BC, contains a flood story almost exactly the same as the Noah story in the Pentateuch, with a few variations such as the number of days of the deluge, the order of the birds, and the name of the mountain on which the ark rests. Andrew R. George submits that the flood story in Genesis 6–8 matches the Gilgamesh flood myth so closely, "few doubt" that it derives from a Mesopotamian account.[8] What is particularly noticeable is the way the Genesis flood story follows the Gilgamesh flood tale "point by point and in the same order", even when the story permits other alternatives.[9]
Comparative mythology
The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts. Many scholars believe that Noah and the Biblical Flood story are derived from the Mesopotamian version, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares overlapping consistency with far older written ancient Mesopotamian story of The Great Flood, and that the early Hebrews were known to have lived in Mesopotamia.[10]
Gilgamesh's historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2700 BCE,[11] shortly before the earliest known written stories. The discovery of artifacts associated with Aga and Enmebaragesi of Kish, two other kings named in the stories, has lent credibility to the historical existence of Gilgamesh.[12]
The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2100–2000 BC).[13] One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh's journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story.[14] The earliest Akkadian versions of the unified epic are dated to ca. 2000–1500 BC.[15] Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh's journey to meet Utnapishtim. The "standard" Akkadian version included a long version of the flood story and was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC.[16]
Ancient Greek
Noah has often been compared to Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and Pronoia in Greek mythology. Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller; he is forewarned of the flood (this time by Zeus and Poseidon); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth. Deucalion also sends a pigeon to find out about the situation of the world and the bird return with an olive branch.
Narrative analysis
According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible (Pentateuch/Torah), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC. Two of these, the Jahwist, composed in the 10th century BC, and the Priestly source, from the late 7th century BC, make up the chapters of Genesis which concern Noah. The attempt by the 5th century editor to accommodate two independent and sometimes conflicting sources accounts for the confusion over such matters as how many pairs of animals Noah took, and how long the flood lasted.[17][18]
Noah's drunkenness
As early as the Classical era, commentators on Genesis 9:20–21 have excused Noah's excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.[19]John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah's behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: "Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor".[20]
Philo, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, also exonerates Noah by noting that one can drink in two different manners: (1) to drink wine in excess, a peculiar sin to the vicious evil man or (2) to partake of wine as the wise man, Noah being the latter.[21]
In Jewish tradition, rabbis blame Satan for saturating the vine with intoxicating properties from the blood of certain animals, thus Noah behaved not knowing what he was doing.[22]
Curse of Ham
In the field of psychological biblical criticism, J. H. Ellens and W. G. Rollins address the narrative of Genesis 9:18 - 27 that narrates the unconventional behavior that occurs between Noah and Ham. Because of its brevity and textual inconsistencies, it has been suggested that this narrative is a "splinter from a more substantial tale".[23][24] A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham had done to his father; or why Noah directed a curse at Canaan for Ham's misdeed; or how Noah came to know what occurred. The narrator relates two facts: (1) Noah became drunken and "he was uncovered within his tent" and (2) Ham "saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without". Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2:15 and Lamentations 4:21.[25]
Table of Nations
Genesis 10 sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood. Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations. (Genesis 10:2–5) Ham's son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:6–10) From there Asshur went and built Nineveh. (Genesis 10:11–12) Canaan's descendants — Sidon, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites — spread out from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, and as far as Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 10:15–19) Among Shem's descendants was Eber. (Genesis 10:21)
Religious views
The righteousness of Noah is the subject of much discussion among the rabbis.[26] The description of Noah as "righteous in his generation" implied to some that his perfection was only relative: In his generation of wicked people, he could be considered righteous, but in the generation of a tzadik like Abraham, he would not be considered so righteous. They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah. In fact, Noah is never seen to speak; he simply listens to God and acts on his orders. This led such commentators to offer the figure of Noah as "the man in a fur coat," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour. Others, such as the medieval commentator Rashi, held on the contrary that the building of the Ark was stretched over 120 years, deliberately in order to give sinners time to repent. Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah (in Hebrew נֹחַ) "This one will comfort (in Hebrew– yeNaHamainu יְנַחֲמֵנו) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed",[27] by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing (in Hebrew – nahah – נחה) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.
According to 2 Peter 2:5, Noah is considered a "preacher of righteousness". Of the Gospels in the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke compares Noah's Flood with the coming Day of Judgement: "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man."[28]
The First Epistle of Peter compares the saving power of baptism with the Ark saving those who were in it. In later Christian thought, the Ark came to be compared to the Church: salvation was to be found only within Christ and his Lordship, as in Noah's time it had been found only within the Ark. St Augustine of Hippo (354–430), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, "who of thy great mercy didst save Noah," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.
In medieval Christianity, Noah's three sons were generally considered as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth/Europe, Shem/Asia, and Ham/Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society – the priests (Shem), the warriors (Japheth), and the peasants (Ham). In the 18th and 19th centuries the view that Ham's sons in general had been literally "blackened" by the curse of Noah was cited as justification for black slavery.[citation needed]
In Latter-day Saint theology, the angel Gabriel lived in his mortal life as the patriarch Noah. Gabriel and Noah are regarded as the same individual; Noah being his mortal name and Gabriel being his heavenly name.[29]
Noah is a highly important figure in Islam, and is seen as one of the most significant prophets of all. The Qur'an contains 43 references to Noah in 28 chapters and the seventy-first chapter, Chapter Noah, is named after him. Noah's narratives largely consist around his preaching as well the story of the Deluge. Noah's narrative lays the prototype for many of the subsequent prophetic stories, which begin with the prophet warning his people and then the community rejecting the message and facing a punishment. Noah is not the first prophet sent to mankind, according to the Qur'an (The first prophet according to Islam is Adam, who was the first man and thus the first prophet as he was the only one to deliver the message at that time). Noah has several titles in Islam, based primarily on praise for him in the Qur'an, including True Messenger of Allah (XXVI: 107) and Grateful Servant of Allah (XVII: 3). The Qur'an further states that Allah chose Adam, Noah, the family of Abraham and the family of Amram above all mankind (III: 33).
The Qur'an focuses on several instances from Noah's life more than others, and one of the most significant events is the Deluge. Allah makes a covenant with Noah just as with Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad later on (XXXIII: 7). Noah is later reviled by his people and reproached by them for being a mere human messenger and not an angel (X: 72-74). Moreover, the people of Noah mock Noah's words and call him a liar (VII: 62) and even suggest that Noah is possessed by a devil when the prophet ceases to preach (LIV: 9). Only the lowest in the community join Noah in believing in Allah's message (XI: 29), and Noah's narrative further describes him preaching both in private and public. The Qur'an narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning. The narrative goes on to describe that waters poured forth from the Heavens, destroying all the sinners. After the Great Flood ceased, the Ark rested atop Mount Judi (Qur'an 11:44).
An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity. Unlike the account of Genesis, not only are Noah's family saved, but many others also heed Noah's call. There is no ark in this account; instead Noah and the others hide in a "luminous cloud".
The Bahá'í Faith regards the Ark and the Flood as symbolic.[30] In Bahá'í belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the ark of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead.[31][32] The Bahá'í scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had a large number of companions, either 40 or 72, besides his family on the Ark, and that he taught for 950 (symbolic) years before the flood.[33]
See also
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- ^ LDS.org: "Book of Mormon Pronunciation Guide" (retrieved 2012-02-25), IPA-ified from «nō´a»
- ^ Genesis 5:29
- ^ K. A. Mathews.The New American Commentary, Vol. 1 – Genesis 1–11 p.316
- ^ Sarna. Genesis p.46
- ^ Genesis 9:20–27
- ^ Genesis 9:28-29
- ^ http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe013.htm
- ^ A. R. George (2003). The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts. Oxford University Press. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-0-19-927841-1. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ Rendsburg, Gary. "The Biblical flood story in the light of the Gilgamesh flood account," in Gilgamesh and the world of Assyria, eds Azize, J & Weeks, N. Peters, 2007, p. 117
- ^ Bottero (2001:21–22)
- ^ Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, pages 123, 502
- ^ Dalley, Stephanie, Myths from Mesopotamia, Oxford University Press (1989), p. 40–41
- ^ Andrew George, page xix
- ^ "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature; The death of Gilgameš (three versions, translated)".
- ^ Andrew George, page 101, "Early Second Millennium BC" in Old Babylonian
- ^ Andrew George, pages xxiv–xxv
- ^ Collins, John J. (2004). Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0-8006-2991-4.
- ^ Friedman, Richard Elliotty (1989). Who Wrote the Bible?. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 59. ISBN 0-06-063035-3.
- ^ Ellens & Rollins. Psychology and the Bible: From Freud to Kohut, 2004, (ISBN 027598348X, 9780275983482), p.52
- ^ Hamilton, 1990, pp. 202–203
- ^ Philo, 1971, p. 160
- ^ Gen. Rabbah 36:3
- ^ Speiser, 1964, 62
- ^ T. A. Bergren. Biblical Figures Outside the Bible, 2002, (ISBN 1563384116, ISBN 978-1-56338-411-0), p. 136
- ^ Ellens & Rollins, 2004, p.53
- ^ "JewishEncyclopedia.com – Noah".
- ^ Genesis 5:28
- ^ Luke 17:26
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Mormonism – NOAH".
- ^ From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, October 28, 1949: Bahá'í News, No. 228, February 1950, p. 4. Republished in Compilation 1983, p. 508
- ^ Poirier, Brent. "The Kitab-i-Iqan: The key to unsealing the mysteries of the Holy Bible". Retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ^ Shoghi Effendi 1971, p. 104
- ^ From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, November 25, 1950. Published in Compilation 1983, p. 494
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
You have a wallet. Pull it out.
Yes, I mean now. Because until you do, I vow to voluntarily remain a prisoner here in Northern California, suffering the indignities of ... of ... OK, maybe I didn't think that one through.
Anyway, your wallet. Now. I mean it.
JUST BECAUSE I'M CURIOUS. In the spirit of other blog-based donation drives, if you end up giving because of my nagging, I think it would be amusing to track the donations that come via this blog. And a simple way to do that is to select a donation amount that involves a specific number of cents.
With respect to CC HQ, we're going to make that figure 42. In other words, if you were planning to give $20, make it $20.42, and so on and so on. And maybe some day, we'll figure out what the effect was.
Just call me curious.
2 comments:
- Mark Francis said...
- Zorpheous said...
Well, I dropped a fifty in the bucket, not to mention the work hours I am shoveling in Mark's direction, although, I do gain some benefit from Mark's labour in my Business, and I am hoping to be able to shovel a lot more in his direction.
By the way CC, thanks for posting this. It will be interesting to see the traffic difference I got from Kate's place the other day and compair it to yours. - 11:10 AM
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The debate has raged for years: what's the best way to reach reading - phonics or the whole language method? Next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why both techniques are flawed. Also, a parent's guide to raising lifelong learners. And, what children give up when they learn to talk
Diane McGuiness is a cognitive psychologist at the University of South Florida and the author of "Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It." She tells Jim Fleming that both phonics and the whole language method are flawed; kids should be taught to recognize the sounds in words and then the various spellings of those sounds. Also, Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, is the author of "Raising Lifelong Learners." She doesn't think much of McGuiness' prescription and tells Steve Paulson that children should be taught to love good books and conversation.SEGMENT 2:
Tamara Thornton is a cultural historian at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the author of "Handwriting in America." She tells Judith Strasser that ideas about handwriting have always reflected wider social values, and that champions of the Palmer method loved it because it promoted conformity.SEGMENT 3:
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips tells Steve Paulson that children acquire language only at the cost of limiting their emotional lives and bringing conformity to their self-expression. Phillips book is "The Beast in the Nursery."Cassette copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 98-04-05-A.
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