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...called it "perfection"? More waiting, tempers rising. Then, ten minutes later, comes the second wave, the other 95% of the audience. This is more like it. Wet-eyed men looking neither right nor left. Girls carrying men's handkerchiefs, eye makeup gone, gazing at sidewalks. All victims of Erich Segal's Love Story, the five-Kleenex weeper, the marzipan heartbreaker. It has actually taken them ten minutes just to compose themselves enough to face the real world again...
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...
Blood Print. Philadelphia Attorneys Bernard Segal and Dennis Eisman found their skills tried in uncommon ways. During closed hearings to determine whether there should be a court-martial, the CID sought to obtain hair samples from MacDonald. One day after a courtroom session, Army agents simply ran MacDonald's car off the road, flipped the protesting Eisman to the ground and took MacDonald off in "protective custody." After one doctor had taken snips of hair from all over MacDonald's body, the agents decided that the captain did not need protective custody any more...
...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 one of its December 11 issue. No doubt about...
...course, from the very first, we had always treated Love Story as a great joke, albeit one that carried with it the possibility of getting terribly out of hand. And we continued to laugh: through Redstone's speech; through some guy telling us how Segal had written the screen play in just one weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank...