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...Larry Peerce decided that the inexperienced kid was right for it after all. The role earned Ali a fast $10,000 and even faster fame. "When I saw those reviews, I knew I was in over my head," she says. But she had signed a five-picture contract with Paramount and started at last to study acting. She was 30 years old. No recent ingenue had made it so big so late. There was a lot of catching up to do. Like consulting a psychiatrist. "I thought I wasn't worthy of all that attention. I was so unhappy...
...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...
...winds-as Segal himself might phrase it-Sumner Redstone, class of '44 and head of Boston's Redstone Showcase Theatres, announced that on the ever-after-to-be-memorable night of December 18 the Circle Theatre's usually scheduled performances of Catch-22 would be cancelled in order that Paramount could bring in a private screening of Love Story -opening December 25 at the same theatre, lest anyone forget. Accordingly, invitations went out to the Harvard hockey team, virtually everyone on the payroll of the Department of Athletics, as many of the Harvard extras as Paramount could recall, and even...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...
...rang with not a little of plain old Harvard elitism and snobbery. And two hours later, when the film ended and the audience sobered up, it had turned into the sniffles and sobs to which Love Story reduces all its victims. For we could laugh at the Paramount corporate mind all we wanted, and yet still had to admit that Paramount had tricked us into seeing its film. And, luxuriating in the successful kitsch of it all, the makers of Love Story were hardly about to say they were sorry...