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2010-01-21 -Obits-

"Love Story" author Erich Segal dies aged 72

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 according to AlGore, he and Tipper were the inspiration for the love story. I read it on his Interwebs

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-21 08:00|| 2010-01-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 "Loves means never having to say you are sorry."

Pfeh.

Worst definition of love EVER.

Testament to those crappy times, I guess.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-01-21 08:03|| 2010-01-21 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 That damned movie indulged so many women who had feminine martyrdom complexes, who then about drove their husbands and boyfriends bonkers.

To start with, as the expression goes, "All women marry beneath their station", *especially* if they marry above their station. This is one common fantasy to excuse their disappointment in their husband.

Second, leukemia was not as well known back then. The movie first implies that the couple see a doctor because they are *infertile*. Being "barren" was a big psychological tweak back then, because of the social contortions of feminism. What is a housewife without children to do? She has no career, even though she is "educated".

Third, it turns out that the reason she is infertile, is implied to be a "female problem", rather than blood cancer. Here's where the martyrdom thing comes in. She suffers and dies because "she is a woman", (and that is what women do.)

Fourth, Ryan O'Neill did a world class job of suffering her loss, blowing tears and snot and being emotionally crushed. And *not* afraid to chew scenery to show it. No macho stoicism. No getting drunk and hitting on a bunch of coed cheerleader-bimbos. And no other girls waiting in the wings to marry the rich boy widower.

You know that "He will never love again."

Feh. "Lady porn".

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-21 09:14|| 2010-01-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 "Where do I begin..."

Posted by Tom- Pa 2010-01-21 09:16|| 2010-01-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 BEST movie and book evah! You brutes don't know good art!

Posted by The Girls 2010-01-21 10:28|| 2010-01-21 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Meh!

Posted by Almost Anonymous 5839 2010-01-21 10:29|| 2010-01-21 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 "Loves means never having to say you are sorry."

No, that's sociopathy.

Posted by ed 2010-01-21 11:13|| 2010-01-21 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 That movie had one of the best scenes ever for me.

I saw it when I was 21. The scene was the car ride through Boston and over bridge where she is screaming about his driving and he answers "This is Boston, they all drive this way."

Never having been to Boston I thought this a humerous line. I move there a year later to finish school and found out that the line wasn't humerous at all.......it was absolutely true, if somewhat understated.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-21 12:21|| 2010-01-21 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 "Loves means never having to say you are sorry."

Good God - more inane words were never spoken.

Love means ~~never having to say~~ saying you're sorry - especially when you aren't.

There, fixed it for you, Erich.

Posted by GORT 2010-01-21 13:19|| 2010-01-21 13:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Boston drivers prepared me for Paris. Love Story struck me as inane even as a teenager... even though I was a girl, and even though I read the book without ever watching the film.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-21 17:13|| 2010-01-21 17:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Carl Burnett did the best send-up of that movie. Ever.

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-21 19:04|| 2010-01-21 19:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Never read the book or saw the movie.

Never will. What trash.

As far as AlBore goes, he can blow it out his *ss. Segal himself said the BGores weren't the inspiration for the story.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-21 19:24|| 2010-01-21 19:24|| Front Page Top

#13 RIP Erich. Now re the movie--Ali McGraw is a mind blowingly horrible actress in Love Story. It can only be viewed as camp today (although I still like the Harvard-Cornell hockey game).

Posted by JDB 2010-01-21 19:30|| 2010-01-21 19:30|| Front Page Top

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