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...Harvard, but only rarely is it achieved. Dedicated athletes tend to get sidetracked once they learn that there's more to life than batting practice or crack-back blocks. They lose their interest, they lose their edge. They're no longer jocks out of the Ron "Goodbye Columbus" Patimkin mold...
...Tuke is not the Ron Patimkin-type jock that one assumes comes out of the Buckeye State like bottles at a beer factory, but rather a kind of model of the down-to-earth Midwesterner. He came to Harvard four years ago possibly to pursue a collegiate football career, and not be pursued...
...eventually they must give you something for your money." Preminger is finally overcome by his 37-year-old virginity, and commits suicide. But even this, the most depressing of the three stories, is farcical, as the condomium's predominantly Jewish population are like Philip Roth's Patimkin family multiplied a hundred times over...
...lovely loser, of course, was AH MacGraw, whom many figured a shoo-in for the best actress award. To be sure, there were complaints that her performance as Jenny Cavilleri in Love Story wasn't quite up to her Brenda Patimkin in 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount...
Then came the temptation to do Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. Ali, who loved the book, wanted the part of the central character, Brenda Patimkin, but the part did not want her. When she tried for it, she met a hundred excuses. Ali was not Jewish, she did not have enough experience, there were bigger names who wanted to play the part. Then, after six months, Director 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...