The Australian mini-series "The Thorn Birds", based on the book of the same name, was the most popular series in the world. Forbidden love between a priest and a young girl, in the roles of Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, has won the whole world and numerous awards. After this series, Rachel was named the most beautiful woman in the world, and it is interesting that the actor Brian Brown (F / X - murder with a trick, Cocktail) who played her husband in the series when she did not love, actually fell in love and that they are still married.
"According to one legend, there is a bird that sings only once in its life, and that is more beautiful than any other creature on this earth. From the moment it leaves its nest, that bird searches for a thorny tree and has no peace until it is found. the bird crawls among its wild intertwined branches and, singing, stabs its body on the longest and sharpest thorn.
The moment a thorn penetrates her chest, she is unaware that it brings her death; she simply sings and sings while she has the strength.
And as she dies, her pain grows into a song far more beautiful than the song of all the nightingales and fuckers. The price of that beautiful song is life itself, but because of that - the whole world stops listening, and God smiles at that…. because the best that exists can only be obtained at the cost of great pain… or at least that's what the legend says… "
Colleen Margaretta McCullough had a brother, Karl, who drowned off the coast of Crete at the age of 25, trying to save tourists from trouble. Based on his character, she later built a character in the novel The Thorn Birds, and she wrote about him in her book of memoirs Life Without the Boring Bits.
Well, I didn't watch, I don't have time for you :) Maybe after this recommendation I'll find time to sit down and watch :)