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conversations.value: The War of the Roses (film): Lawyer Gavin D'Amato is in his office discussing a divorce case with a client.\nNoticing the man's determination to divorce his wife, Gavin decides to tell him the story of one of his clients, a personal friend of his.\n17 Years Earlier.\nOliver Rose, a student at Harvard Law School, meets Barbara at an auction, where they bid on the same antique.\nOliver chats Barbara up and they become friends.\nWhen Barbara misses her ferry home, the two end up spending the night together at a local hotel.\nEventually the two marry and have two children, Josh and Carolyn.\nOver the years, the Roses grow richer, and Barbara finds an old mansion whose owner has recently died, purchases it and devotes her time to making a home there.\nHowever, cracks seem to be forming in the family as they both begin to disaprove to how they raise their two children as Barbara feels that spoiling Josh and Carolyn with candy is a good thing which that she never had growing up from her own parents.\nAs a result, both Josh and Carolyn become very obese at a young age, and do not try to lose weight until they graduate from high school and begin to attend college.\nAs Oliver becomes a successful partner in his law firm, Barbara, who was a doting and loving wife early in the marriage, appears to grow restless in her life with Oliver, and begins to dislike him immensely.\nOliver, for his part, cannot understand what he has done to earn Barbara's growing contempt, despite his controlling, self-centered, and generally dismissive behavior toward her.\nWhen Oliver believes he is suffering a heart attack, (actually a hiatal hernia) the day after an argument, Barbara (after her initial shock and concern) realizes she felt a sense of relief that he might be dead.\nShe tells him so, adding that she no longer loves him and wants a divorce and Oliver accepts.\nFeeling that it might not be wise to represent himself, Oliver hires Gavin as his legal counsel on a retainer.\nTension arises between Oliver and Barbara during negotiations when it becomes clear that she wants the house and everything in it.\nWhen Barbara's lawyer uses Oliver's final love note to her (which he had written in the hospital) as leverage against him in their legal battle, she refuses to back down.\nBarbara initially throws Oliver out of the house, but he moves back in after discovering a loophole in the divorce that allows him to stay until their divorce is finalized.\nAs a result, Barbara immediately begins plotting to remove Oliver herself, even going as far as trying to seduce Oliver's lawyer Gavin into siding with her instead.\nIn an effort to win the house, Oliver offers his wife a generous monthly allimony, as well as half of everything they have.\nBarbara becomes more stubborn and wants everything, including the house and all of it contents as well as the cars, pets, and children.\nBarbara claims that she has earned it by putting the house together and making it home they both wanted.\nShe raised his children in the house and in her mind the home belongs to her, and her alone.\nOliver refuses to accept her terms, claiming that he had to work to provide for her, the family, and the home.\nHe cannot let her have everything that he worked so hard for be given away.\nEven after Oliver offers Barbara full ownership of the house as well as most of the furniture and items, she refuses to settle unless he gives her everything.\nRealizing that his client is in a no-win situation, Gavin advises Oliver to give in to all of Barbara's demands, let her have the house and everything he owns and start all over again with a new life for himself.\nIn response, Oliver fires Gavin and takes matters into his own hands.\nAt this point, Oliver and Barbara embark on a personal war by spiting and humiliating each other in every way possible, even in front of friends and potential business clients.\nBoth begin destroying the house furnishings; the stove, furniture, Staffordshire ornaments, and plates.\nAnother fight results in a battle where Barbara nearly kills Oliver by using her monster truck to run over Oliver's prized sports car, a classic Morgan 4/4.\nIn addition, Oliver accidentally runs over Barbara's cat in the driveway with his car.\nWhen Barbara finds out, she retaliates by trapping him inside his in-house sauna, where he nearly succumbs to heatstroke and dehydration.\nWhile the kids are away at college, Oliver eventually calms down and attempts to make peace with Barbara over an elegant dinner, but reaches his breaking point when Barbara serves him a pâté which she implies was made from his dog (the dog is later seen to actually be alive and well outside).\nOliver attacks Barbara, who flees into the attic.\nOliver boards up the house to prevent Barbara from escaping, while Barbara loosens the chandelier to drop on Oliver in yet another attempt to kill him.\nWhen their live-in German housekeeper Susan returns home in the middle of the climactic battle, she senses something is terribly wrong and discreetly contacts Gavin for help.\nBy the time Gavin arrives, Oliver and Barbara's quarrel has culminated in the two hanging dangerously from the unsecured chandelier.\nDuring this time, Oliver admits to Barbara that despite their hardships, he always loved her, but Barbara does not respond.\nBefore Gavin can come inside with a ladder, the combined weight of Barbara, Oliver and the chandelier is too much for the electrical wires, which snap and sends them crashing violently to the floor.\nIn his final breaths, Oliver reaches out to touch Barbara's shoulder, but Barbara uses her last ounce of strength to knock his hand away, firmly asserting her feelings for him even in death.\nFinishing his story, Gavin presents his client with two options: either proceed with the divorce and risk facing a horrific bloodbath in court, or go home to his wife to settle their differences properly.\nThe client chooses the latter, and Gavin, satisfied, calls his wife to tell her he is on his way home and that he loves her.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Barbara, Jonathan, War entitled The War of the Roses.
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conversations.value: The War of the Roses (novel): The War of the Roses tells the story of Jonathan and Barbara Rose, and their descent from a picturesque family life into a world of macabre self-destruction.\nThe novel begins quietly, introducing us to Jonathan and Barbara as they are introduced to each other for the first time.\nFast forward some years, and they are living the good life in a Washington,C.\nsuburb.\nThey have the dream house, filled with a lifetime's worth of antiques they've collected, two children (Eve and Josh), a dog, and a cat.\nJonathan's law career could not be better, and they had recently hired an au pair to aid in the upkeep of the house and the children as Barbara has embarked in a gourmet business endeavour.\nShe has received a small amount of acclaim for her pâté.\nSomewhere along the road to building to this ideal family unit, Barbara fell out of love with Jonathan.\nShe realizes it as Jonathan has what is believed to be a heart attack.\nSuddenly, it would not be so bad if he died.\nShe would not be distraught.\nJonathan, on the other hand, only thinks of his wife as he is rushed to the hospital and cannot understand why she did not come to his bedside as he waited for the prognosis.\nUpon returning home, Barbara tells him their marriage is over.\nIt's been over for some time and he never realized it.\nDivorce.\nBarbara hires the best divorce attorney in town.\nSmart enough not to represent himself, Jonathan puts an attorney of his own on a retainer.\nJonathan would like the divorce to go smoothly.\nHe offers Barbara a generous monthly allowance, as well as half of everything they have.\nThat's not enough.\nShe wants it all, the house and all its contents.\nShe has earned it, putting the house together and making it home they both wanted.\nShe raised his children in the house.\nIt belongs to her.\nJonathan had to work to provide for her, the family, and the home.\nHe cannot let her have it so easily.\nHe opts not to move out, citing an old legal precedent which permits a couple to live under the same roof while going through a divorce.\nBarbara is less than thrilled at the prospect of having him continue to live there.\nDespite the warnings of their attorneys, both take it upon themselves to make the other miserable.\nIt begins with small acts of sabotage, but soon escalates.\nOnly the children are off limits, everything else, from careers to prized possessions, is fair game.\nTheir previous life together, a life of love, vanishes as aggression and territoriality engulfs both Jonathan and Barbara.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence ' The convenient death of the King's predecessor had thrown shadows over the reigns of the first two, though at least they had been able to produce the deposed sovereign's bodies (there is a question over the case of Edward II) and pretend that they had died naturally.'.
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  It would need a long English commitment, as in the early 1350s, to secure Brittany against a determined French attack backed by some local nobles and force the French King, an inexperienced teenager at this time, to accept any 'union of crowns' between Ricardian England and Brittany. In real life Henry VII sent a small force to assist Brittany in 1488, commanded by the rehabilitated Sir Edward Woodville, and had to abandon the project; but the vigorous and determined Richard could have fought a war with France lasting several years and with luck have secured Anne's person and hand (had the pro-French faction not kidnapped her and carried her off to be married to Charles VIII). English troops could then have remained in Brittany to ensure that the French did not invade, and Richard had the prestige of success against the national enemy without the expense of a long war. The Bretons being noted for their independent spirit, it would have had to be agreed by Richard and the Breton Estates that the two countries would be governed separately. Presumably if Richard and Anne had had two or more children, one would succeed to England and one to Brittany.
  The deposition of James III of Scotland by a magnate revolt on his son's behalf would have been likely to take England by surprise under Richard as it did under Henry. Richard had had long personal experience of fighting in southern Scotland, though also of Scots nobles and princes going back on their promises. Concentrating on France and Brittany in 1488–9, he would have been unable to take advantage of the situation but could subsequently have threatened invasion and induced the new King to marry an English princess (possibly one of Edward IV's daughters as the late King had planned, possibly Clarence's daughter Margaret). Richard had a valuable resource for international diplomacy in his nieces, provided that their illegitimacy (or not) was not an insuperable bar for status-conscious foreign princes. Given that the Princes were still missing and any reversal of Titulus Regius on the girls' behalf would imply that Richard had been wrong to declare them all bastards and might have had the Princes killed as well, it would be easier for a special Parliamentary Act to declare the Princesses legitimated without rights on the succession. If Richard was still childless and his heir Warwick or Lincoln was intended to marry Elizabeth of York, this sort of resolution would aid their union as a reconciliation with partisans of Edward IV's children. Whether Richard would have felt confident enough to grant more southern sheriffdoms, keeperships of royal estates, and other positions of local power to the local gentry instead of key northerners is uncertain and would probably have depended on the risks of new revolts. Without such conciliatory gestures the chances of revolt would have been higher, particularly if Henry Tudor had still been at large and had been backed by France in retaliation for Richard's 'interference' in Brittany. Richard would have needed to build up loyal magnates to control the south of England from the threat of revolt or invasion (East Anglia would have been under the control of John Howard's son Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, disgraced in real life by Henry VII.) But granting extensive lands and titles to newcomers not of ancient–or local–birth would have run the same risks of abuse for the 'parvenus' as Richard II faced for his 'duketti' in 1397–9.
  The usurpations of Henry IV and Edward IV had been controversial, but armed force and the acquiescence of most of the magnates had kept them on their thrones for their lifetimes (though Edward had had to regain his once). Provided that his health survived better than Henry IV's, Richard would have had the advantage of having seen off his main challengers in 1483 and 1485 and his success would have disconcerted potential opponents. If he had married a princess nearer his age than Anne of Brittany, or even an English relative from among the senior aristocratic families, he could have had several adult sons by the mid-1500s. The husband or sons of Elizabeth of York would have posed a threat to Richard's children, with the question of Edward IV's marriage unresolved whatever the legal fictions that Richard had enacted about it, and some ambitious noble or a foreign power could have sponsored a pretender claiming to be Edward V or his brother in the 1490s. The likeliest offender was France, as the real-life backers of the pretender 'Warbeck' were Richard's sister Margaret and probable ally Maximilian–who would have been Richard's supporters. If Richard was to be killed in battle or die naturally leaving young children, there was a strong chance of another civil war with Warwick, Lincoln or his brother(s), and a husband of one of Edward IV's daughters involved. But with luck Richard III could have lived into his sixties and died as late as 1515 or 1520, after a long and successful reign that had started no more rockily than Edward III's did in 1327–30, Henry IV's in 1399–1405, or Henry VII's in 1485–7. The convenient death of the King's predecessor had thrown shadows over the reigns of the first two, though at least they had been able to produce the deposed sovereign's bodies (there is a question over the case of Edward II) and pretend that they had died naturally.
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conversations.value: Quoted by Fields, pp. 140–8. See also Ross, p. 97 and Fields, p. 247 on the discovery of two bodies in the Tower c. 1614, written up in 1647.
  Croyland Chronicle, p. 564; Commignes, vol I, p. 203; Mancini, p. 67; More, p. 4; Gregory's Chronicle, p. 226. 59 (Edward caught a chill out fishing at Windsor); Commignes, vol ii, pp. 54–9; Vergil pp. 171–2; Hall p. 338.
  More, pp. 55–6; Ross, Edward IV, pp. 315–16. The play that invented much of the 'Jane Shore' story (and her inaccurate Christian name) was written by Thomas Rowe in 1714.
  See Michael Bongiorno, 'Did Louis XI Have Edward IV Poisoned?' in Ricardian Register, vol xxii, no. 3 (Autumn 1992) pp. 23–4.
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conversations.value: Quoted by Fields, pp. 140–8. See also Ross, p. 97 and Fields, p. 247 on the discovery of two bodies in the Tower c. 1614, written up in 1647. 
  Croyland Chronicle, p. 564; Commignes, vol I, p. 203; Mancini, p. 67; More, p. 4; Gregory's Chronicle, p. 226. 
  Mancini, p. 59 (Edward caught a chill out fishing at Windsor); Commignes, vol ii, pp. 54–9; Vergil pp. 171–2; Hall p. 338. 
  More, pp. 55–6; Ross, Edward IV, pp. 315–16. The play that invented much of the 'Jane Shore' story (and her inaccurate Christian name) was written by Thomas Rowe in 1714. 
  See Michael Bongiorno, 'Did Louis XI Have Edward IV Poisoned?' in Ricardian Register, vol xxii, no. 3 (Autumn 1992) pp. 23–4.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Williams, B, 'The Portuguese Marriage and the Significance of the "Holy Princess"', The Ricardian (May 1983).
  Wigram, Isolde, 'False, Fleeting, perjur'd Clarence: a further exchange, Clarence and Richard', in The Ricardian, no. 76 (1982) pp. 17–20.
  Williams, B, 'Lambert Simnel's rebellion: How Reliable is Polydore Vergil?' in The Ricardian, no. 6 (1982).