'love Story' Author Erich Segal Dies |
'love Story' Author Erich Segal Dies |
Sharmila-Sweet |
Jan 20 2010, 02:48 PM
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'Love Story' author Erich Segal dies
AP, 20 January 2010, 06:05am IST LONDON: Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie 'Love Story', has died of a heart attack, his daughter said. He was 72. Francesca Segal said yesterday her father died Sunday at his home in London. She said he had suffered from Parkinson's disease -- a neurological condition that affects movement -- for 25 years. His funeral was held in London on yesterday, she said. Segal was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students - preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny -- into a novel. Published in 1970, ``Love Story'' was a weeper about a young couple who fall in love, marry and discover she is dying of cancer. It was a million seller guaranteed to make readers cry and critics scream. A much bigger audience caught up with the film version, which starred Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Directed by Arthur Hiller, with a plaintive, Henry Mancini-composed theme song that wouldn't quit, ``Love Story'' gained seven Oscar nominations -- including one for Segal for writing the screenplay, as well as for best picture, best director and best actor and actress. It won one Oscar, for best music. Segal also wrote a sequel, ``Oliver's Story,'' published in 1977, and made into a film, with O'Neal again in the lead male role. Segal would later say that Oliver was based in part on a couple of Harvard undergraduates who later became quite well known: Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones. (He disputed reports that Jenny was based on Gore's future wife, Tipper). Don't let someone become a priority in your life,
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Bhavita |
Jan 21 2010, 09:04 PM
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Sad news.
Love Story, the book and the movie is my all time favourite. Thank you Erich Segal, for giving us this classic Also enjoyed reading The Class, Doctors, loved Man Woman and Child, which got made as Masoom too in Hindi May his soul rest in peace This post has been edited by Bhavita: Jan 25 2010, 10:09 PM Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. - Albert Schweitzer Without music life would be a mistake - Friedrich Nietzsche Where words fail, music speaks - Hans Christian Anderson Music is spiritual. The music business is not - Van Morrison |
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