Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONLY. Omigod, the temperature is about 19°?but they both have to see Love Story. She wants to see Ryan O'Neal, and he saw Ali MacGraw in Goodbye, Columbus and is hooked. She cried when she read the novel; he choked up. Who could resist Jennifer Cavilleri, the Radcliffe girl, condemned on the first page to a tragic death, then, loving Bach and the Beatles right to the end, expiring in her husband's arms? Leaving Harvard Scion Oliver Barrett IV with nothing but a ticket to Paris and a handful of bittersweet memories?plus about a drillion...
...turn out to be Love Story in disguise. MGM Production Chief Herb Solow is dead set against imitation, but adds: "We have a couple of romantic projects we developed over the years. We've taken them out again for a fresh look in the light of the success of Ryan's Daughter and Love Story."1 American International Pictures, which likes to exhibit the courage of other people's convictions, is at the head of the line. From the company that gave you Beach Blanket Bingo and I Was a Teen Age Werewolf will soon come?Wuthering Heights. "We were...
Sarah Miles not only endorses the new romanticism; she is part of it in the overblown Ryan's Daughter, a love story set in troubled Ireland, that was written by her husband, Robert Bolt. "The critics are panning the movie," she admits, "but people desperately want it because they're pouring into the box office. I think people are weary of all the sex stuff. They want a story, which they're not getting at the moment. I believe in the film because I'm a romantic to the end. I believe in morality; I believe in right and wrong...
...easily dispatched with, By 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...
...home movies. But though everyone strained not to 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...