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Ayn Rand ( /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two initially unsuccessful early novels, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of the philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her besides Aristotle.
Actors: Diane Pitblado (miscellaneous crew), Joanne T. Harwood (miscellaneous crew), Joe Everett (miscellaneous crew), Helen Mirren (actress), Jeff Beal (composer), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Derek Brady (miscellaneous crew), David Ferry (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Peter Fonda (actor), Eric Stoltz (actor), Tom McCamus (actor), Julie Delpy (actress), Drazen Baric (miscellaneous crew), Catherine Currie (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The novelist Ayn Rand engaged in an affair with a psychologist 25 years her junior by the name of Nathaniel Branden. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's ideas, but the two eventually had a falling out. This is the story of the affair, based on the book by Branden's wife, Barbara.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, actor, actress, adultery, altruism, anti-communismThe car is parked outside your front door But you don't even travel for an hour anymore Since you learned to fly From your apartment window It's nearby
And for now This is all you'll ever be For now it's better Than something you had in-between For now this is all you'll ever need And I'll be waiting at the shoreline For you hopefully
And lately I've noticed that You haven't been around And I guess it must be cozy On the other side of town 'Cause you take the ferry boat ride Waiting for the moment there When someone will arrive and sing
And when you feel that It's quittin' time Just look up And see the sun is on the rise And move on Move on