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WHEN the Crimson Executive Board got together in 1903, you can bet they observed strict decorum. President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 (top row, third from left) made sure his boys didn't bring women along. He kept the dress standard high, too: black tie, celluloid collar, and gold Crimson medal were de rigeur...
Close to 1,000,000 copies of Segal's hardcover book are in print. Love Story is still number one on the bestseller list?while a 95¢ edition is the top-selling paperback. Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos. Let's see . . . if just the people who bought the book go to the movie and take someone they love, that's 12 million tickets at $3 apiece . . . No wonder Love Story has enjoyed the largest opening-week grosses in the history of American cinema. No wonder that on Christmas Day, when it opened across the country...
...Neal does an admirable job of acting, but Ali MacGraw may have performed a miracle for Hollywood. She is an echo of a time when Celluloid City really was the dream factory, when people truly went to the movies every weekend. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down?the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star...
...tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic entrails of the International. Elvis, dwarfed by eight foot high shanks of beef, by linen and glassware and advertising. By MGM celluloid. Elvis. That...
...Rudimentary, once you get the hang of it," he replied. Examining the dregs of his tea, he continued, "I see myself in the next century played by a number of actors on jiggling celluloid. Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone-hello! what's this?-Here I am in 1970, in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...