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American Beauty was released just over four months after Workingman's Dead. The title of the album has a double meaning, referring both to the musical focus on Americana and to the rose that is depicted on the front cover. Around the rose, the album title is scripted as a text ambigram that can also be read "American Reality". [15]
In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged Italian hurls an American Beauty rose at Major de Coverly, wounding him in the eye. The flower is a recurring motif in the Oscar-winning 1999 film American Beauty. It was also featured on the cover of the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. 'American Beauty' is the official flower of the District of ...
American Beauty is a 1999 American psychological dark comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari.
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American Beauty Rose" is a 1950 song written by Hal David, Redd Evans and Arthur Altman, [1] which was a minor hit for Eddy Howard and for Frank Sinatra in 1950. [2] [3] It was also popularized by Sinatra's second version as a charting single in 1961. [4] The song was included on his Come Swing with Me! LP, as the B-side to "Sentimental Journey ...
In 1983, Lee had a hybrid tea rose named in her honor that was pink with a touch of peach. The Peggy Lee Rose was the 1983 American Beauty Rose of the Year. [59] [60] In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall. [61]
"American Beauty Rose" (song), a 1961 single by Frank Sinatra; American Beauty/American Psycho (album), 2015 album by Fall Out Boy; American Beauty/American Psycho Tour (concert tour), a 2015 concert tour by Fall Out Boy "American Beauty/American Psycho" (song), a 2014 song by Fall Out Boy off the eponymous album American Beauty/American Psycho
In 1888, he created a hybrid rose known as the American Beauty rose in his greenhouse. He co-founded Bassett & Washburn, which became the first florist to distribute the rose. Commercial horticulture was a relatively new field as Americans had only gained significant disposable income late in the 19th century.