![]() ![]() ![]() But while he was rewriting the screenplay as a novel, the actress Ali MacGraw, who had known Segal as a student and was hot after her success in Goodbye, Columbus, persuaded her new husband, Robert Evans, to buy it for his ailing Paramount studio. Love Story, charting the romance between an upper-class Harvard ice hockey star, Oliver Barrett IV, and a working-class Radcliffe girl, Jennifer Cavalleri, began life as an idea for a novel, and then became a screenplay Segal couldn't sell. ![]() By contrast, his scholarly reputation was first-rate, though the perception of easy success in the mass market worked against that, and his popularity with students in the wake of his celebrity often seemed to irritate his fellow academics. But as the author of the worldwide best-seller Love Story, in effect the novelisation of the massive hit movie, and previously as one of the writers of the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, Segal was a celebrity of the pop culture mainstream, though critical response was almost invariably harsh. Erich Segal, professor of classics at Yale, made an unlikely icon for the Age of Aquarius. ![]()
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