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...Segal wrote a musical called “Sing Muse!”—a spoof of the Iliad that explores, according to a review in The Crimson from May 1961, how “Paris made it with Helen (or vice versa).” The show was originally performed in Leverett House dining hall and was ultimately picked up by an off-Broadway producer...
...here getting a Ph.D. And I wrote something for Leverett House ’cause they wanted it for spring weekend, see?” Segal had told The Crimson in 1972. “But the professionals bought it and put it on. And then by God, I was a professional...
...Segal reached the height of fame as a professional writer with “Love Story.” Originally conceived as a screenplay, “Love Story” first appeared in novel form and enjoyed a lengthy presence on The New York Times bestseller list, selling millions of copies. The 1970 film version, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw, grossed almost $200 million and has been said to have rescued then-struggling Paramount Pictures from financial collapse...
Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...
...resident of Dunster House at the time, Segal admitted to using at least two students he had met in the house as models for the story’s protagonist: former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69, roommates who lived near Segal...