On Aug 22, 6:52Â am, "Tim"
q.con> wrote:>> Tonight on PBS I watched a fascinating biography of Frank Lloyd
>> Wright, with ole pictures & film reels, timely music, and cool,
>> colorful narration
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>> It is another masterful Ken Burns creation & including neatly narrated
>> by the actor Edward Herman
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>> I presume one could also watch it  via puter at
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>> This "genius" lived a long, sometimes very controversial life, and the
>> biography I skimmed in Wikipedia is okay though blah to Ken Burns'
>> version
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>> "The architect hero Howard Roark of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
>> is widely considered to have been based on Wright.[32]"
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>> He wrote 20 books, many articles, and is considered as the "greatest
>> American architect" by an architect professional group, tho Fullerites
>> may think domeferly/differently
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>> And he's partly descended from Welsh named "Jones," born in Wisconsin
>> in the mid 19th century, died 1959
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> Yes, one wonders whether Ayn Rand ever had an original thought. I seriously
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FLW was not beloved by folk because he openly violated marriage vows
His first wife with 6 children refused to give him a divorce
His "mistress" was murdered by an angry servant she apparently had
fired
His next wife was a cocained "bitche," and wouldn't legally divorce
him until he was economically broke
His next wife a beautiful ballerina who dumped an angry, prominent
husband
