Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December 18, with Christmas vacation only hours away, most of the Harvard community had already departed for its geographically distributed homes, except for those lucky few ... after all, man, who'd be crazy enough to pass up a chance to see, in person to see, Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw and, yes, even Erich Segal. As well as attend a Champagne Reception. Why, I mean, the whole thing was so damn exciting that the University Gazette dropped its prevalent air of composure to feature great, big, suitable-for-framing pies of Ali and Ryan on page...
...miss a single bit of background action, and though the hockey boys applauded themselves extravagantly, precious little of Harvard showed up in the final film. Functionally, Harvard was there simply to provide an excuse for connecting up terribly upper-class Ryan O'Neal with lower middle-class Ali McGraw, whom Hollywood seems to have slated to pick up all the ethnic roles than Anthony Quinn can no longer play. The screenplay could have been set on a cross-town bus during the recent New York taxi strike and it wouldn't have really made any difference...
HILLER disengaged Harvard a bit from the original screenplay, and it is probably just as well. The chase scene has Ollie search for Ali by running up the steps of Widener for a quick glance in the window. Another shot has road signs in the middle of Harvard Yard, the arms pointing west to University Hall and east to Barrett nee Emerson Hall. Ollie's roommate must sleep on a couch in another suite whenever Jenny spends the night, although on camera the lovers share only the single bed in Ollie's suite. Most annoying of all, the newlyweds take...
...Footnote on Stardom: The main attraction at a cocktail party held last year for the principals of Love Story and the Boston press was Ali McGraw. She spent the first half-hour seated at a corner table and surrounded by six editors of the Wellesley News. It looked as if the entire staff had shown up to interview her, and one of the girls told me, "She's our most famous alumna since Madame Chiang Kai-shek." Prettier, too, I thought, but the editor sniffed, "Oh, I don't know, she looks thirty...
...problem with the Harvard guys. You'll be filming a big Hollywood movies on their campus, but they'll pretend to ignore you. They'll keep their cool at all times.' Well, now, I don't think that's so. I was up in Harvard Yard yesterday, walking with Ali McGraw, and you should have seen the freshmen hanging out the windows yelling-Aliiiiiiiii, yoo hoooooo...