Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans remembers that blank look. "I shook hands with her for a year and a half. Otherwise she had nothing to do with me. I wasn't her kind of guy. Everything I represented seemed to turn her off." Recalls Ali: "I took one look at that enormous house of Bob's and in my highhanded way said, 'Well, I know what this is about and it's not for me.'" What it was about was 18 rooms and 26 phones, most of them chorusing with jangles from New York...
...after all, Irving Thalberg. Still, he was a contemporary version of the studio czar, a two-time loser as a husband, an 18-hour-a-day man at the office, constantly visible at parties, previews, promotions. Was this what a Wellesley girl was meant for? Entries in the Ali MacGraw notebook: 1) "To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience." 2) "Do you want to be in the movies?" he asked. "Yes, I think so . . . Now," she said. "Why?" "Because . . . I guess . . . it will be okay to invent my life for three months every year...
Star stuff. Disney dust. But all of it absolutely legit. Six weeks after Ali took a derisive look at the Evans mansion she married him, phones and all. The baby she is expecting in February is referred to by its mother as "The Phone." "Bob never wished he was somebody else," says Ali. "It's a good feeling for a woman to be with a man like that." As for the Hollywood life-style that comes with the role: "Hollywood scares me. But we don't live the Hollywood life. Bob goes to the office and works...
...right head would have believed that Ali MacGraw would be the divining rod for a movie trend? A lady who never watches television, who wrote a whole book when Grounds was killed by a car, who copied out Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams in longhand for Evans? Not even
...husband could see it. Recalls Evans: "When Ali read Love Story and cried, I thought, 'Fine, it's an emotional story, she responds to it, and maybe some small segment of the public will. Maybe some middle-aged people. Maybe some kids, some Ali MacGraws. I hated all those Now pictures?including some of our own. I thought it would be a good, small, profitable trend bucker. But a phenomenon...