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...course, some of the reviewers have made too much of this. Segal's fairy tale has more staggering implications for the GNP than it does for literature. College bookstores are peddling the paperback by the carton, no longer pretending even to unpack the crates...
...Hollywood hacks how to package a mawkish screenplay into a "promo" for the movie even before it is released. If the literary residue has all the integrity of Newspeak, it reads so quickly that you finish before you really begin. By eliminating antique appendages like adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that has more blackouts than Laugh-In or Meander. The GWTW Margaret Mitchell shouldn...
...campuses would become muted in a new emphasis on "privatism." One who was right on, however, was Arthur Koestler, who said late in 1969 that writers and film makers "will discover again that pubic hair is less poetic than Gretchen's braids." The enormous success of Erich Segal's gushingly romantic film and novel Love Story has already proved him right...
...addition to Love Story, Segal has written a number of scripts, including the execrable The Games and R.P.M. He can go on dropping bombs as long as he likes. "I called my accountant last week to ask him whether I was a millionaire yet," says Segal modestly. "He said...
...Love Story, Segal (1 last week...