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The Lady of Rage
The Lady of Rage (Robin Yvette Allen, born 1966), Virginia-born rapper and actress on Death Row Records, known for "Afro Puffs" (1994), the 1997 album Necessary Roughness, and roles in The Steve Harvey Show and Next Friday.
The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott is a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detailing the tragic story of a woman confined in a tower who dies in a boat.
The Lady of Shalott (painting)
Waterhouse's 1888 oil painting The Lady of Shalott (Tate, N01543, 153 x 200 cm), showing Tennyson's dying heroine drifting to Camelot in her boat; distinguished from his 1894 Leeds and Art Gallery of Ontario versions.
The Lady of the Camellias (ballet)
The Lady of the Camellias (Die Kameliendame) is a full-length narrative ballet by John Neumeier, set to music of Frédéric Chopin and adapted from Alexandre Dumas fils's 1848 novel.
The Lady of the Lake (Sapkowski novel)
The Lady of the Lake (Pani Jeziora) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1999 fantasy novel, the fifth and final Witcher saga novel and seventh book overall, translated into English by David French in 2017, ending Geralt and Ciri's story.
The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes (1938) is Alfred Hitchcock's British comic thriller, adapted from Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins, in which Margaret Lockwood's Iris insists vanished governess Miss Froy existed; his penultimate UK film, Truffaut's favorite, remade 1979 and 2013.
The Lady Vanishes (1979 film)
The Lady Vanishes (1979) is Hammer Films' final feature, a remake of Hitchcock's 1938 thriller directed by Anthony Page, starring Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould, and Angela Lansbury; a critical and commercial disappointment.
The Lady with the Dog (Дама с собачкой)
The Lady with the Dog (Дама с собачкой) is Anton Chekhov's 1899 short story, published in Russkaya Mysl, about the married banker Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna's Yalta affair; praised by Nabokov and retold by Joyce Carol Oates.
The Lady, or the Tiger?
"The Lady, or the Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's 1882 short story, first published in Century Magazine under the original title "In the King's Arena," in which a princess directs her lover to one of two doors, tiger or lady, and the author famously refuses to reveal which came out.
The Lady's Companion
The Lady's Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a Spanish Netflix period romantic comedy set in 1880s Madrid, created by Gema R. Neira and María José Rustarazo, starring Nadia de Santiago as matchmaker Elena Bianda; 8 episodes, premiered March 28, 2025, canceled after one season.
The Ladykillers (1955 film)
The Ladykillers (1955) is an Ealing Studios British black comedy directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by William Rose, starring Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and Katie Johnson; thieves posing as a string quintet rob a bank van via King's Cross and are undone by their landlady.
The Ladykillers (2004 film)
The Ladykillers (2004) is the Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy, starring Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr, whose gang tunnels from Marva Munson's cellar to rob a Mississippi casino; released March 26, 2004, grossing $76.7 million.
The Lagoon and Other Stories
The Lagoon and Other Stories is the first book of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, a 1951 story collection whose Hubert Church Award led her doctors to cancel a scheduled lobotomy.
The Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage Enjoys a Second Lease on Life (解雇されたチート付与魔術師は気ままなセカンドライフを謳歌する)
The Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage Enjoys a Second Lease on Life (追放されたチート付与魔術師は気ままなセカンドライフを謳歌する) is a Japanese fantasy series by Asa Rokushima and Gyomuyoumochi about Rein Garland, an expelled enhancement mage who recalls his enchantments; adapted as a 2026 P.A.WORKS anime.
The Lair of the White Worm (film)
The Lair of the White Worm is Ken Russell's 1988 horror comedy, loosely adapting Bram Stoker's 1911 final novel, starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi; released by Vestron Pictures, grossing $22.0K in the US.
The Lake
The Lake is a Canadian Prime Video comedy series (2022–2023) created by Julian Doucet, starring Jordan Gavaris, Julia Stiles, and Madison Shamoun; the first scripted Canadian Amazon Original comedy, set in Ontario cottage country.
The Lake (2026 film)
The Lake (2026) is Abby Ellis's Sundance documentary about the shrinking Great Salt Lake, following scientists Bonnie Baxter and Ben Abbott and commissioner Brian Steed; it won a Special Jury Award and holds 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Lake House (film)
The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Alejandro Agresti, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves as pen pals living two years apart.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is an 1888 lyric poem by William Butler Yeats, addressed to an uninhabited island in Lough Gill, County Sligo, where he spent his youth.
The Lamb as Effigy
The Lamb as Effigy (or Three Hundred and Fifty XOXOXOS for a Spark Union with My Darling Divine) is the 2023 second and final album by experimental rock band Sprain, released by The Flenser, 8 tracks and 96:38 long, followed by the band's disbanding.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: 1974 double concept album by Genesis, sixth and last studio album with Peter Gabriel, telling the surreal New York story of Rael; UK No. 10, US No. 41, 50th-anniversary edition 2025.
The Lament for the Makaris
The Lament for the Makaris, also known as "Timor Mortis", is an elegiac poem in Middle Scots by William Dunbar, a danse macabre first printed in Edinburgh in 1508.
The Lamp of Umm Hashim
The Lamp of Umm Hashim (Qindīl Umm Hāshim) is a 1944 novella by Egyptian writer Yahya Haqqi about an eye doctor torn between science and faith.
The Land
The Land (Polish: Kraj) is a 2021 Polish satirical anthology film made for Netflix, six stories by different directors in which ordinary Poles chase money and status with darkening results.
The Land and Its People
The Land and Its People is an essay collection by David Sedaris, published in 2026. It reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, and a lifelong friend.
The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time is Don Bluth's 1988 Universal animated film, presented by Spielberg and Lucas, in which orphaned Littlefoot and four young dinosaur friends journey to the Great Valley; it grossed about $48.6 million and spawned 13 direct-to-video sequels and a TV series.
The Land Before Time (film)
The Land Before Time (1988) is a Don Bluth animated Universal film, presented by Spielberg and Lucas, about orphaned young dinosaurs seeking the Great Valley; it earned nearly $50 million and spawned 13 direct-to-video sequels.
The Land Before Time (TV series)
The Land Before Time (TV series) is a 2007-2008 American animated show, also known simply as The Land Before Time, continuing the 1988 Don Bluth film; 26 episodes on Cartoon Network, created by Ford Riley, starring Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Ruby, and Chomper.
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994) is the first direct-to-video sequel to The Land Before Time, directed by Roy Allen Smith for Universal Cartoon Studios, following Littlefoot's gang as they raise the hatchling Sharptooth Chomper.
The Land in Winter
The Land in Winter is Andrew Miller's tenth novel, published 2024, set in England's West Country during the 1962-63 Big Freeze, following two marriages; it was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and won the Walter Scott Prize.