Segal said, “The reason people cried over Love Story is because I did. Just about everyone remembers “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” which is number 13 in the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Movie Quotes.
The film grossed nearly $200 million and received seven Academy Award nominations. He wrote the screenplay for the movie of the same name, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw, that was the top box office attraction of 1970 and gained him an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.
Of not being remembered, not counting.”Īt age 33, he wrote his best-known novel, Love Story, that sold more than 21 million copies, was the top selling work of fiction for 1970 in the United States and has been translated into more than 33 languages. But what lies beneath that fear is the terror of insignificance. A line in one of his novels, The Class, described both of us: “Fear of death is universal. Both of us were mediocre runners trying to prove ourselves. It is to the everyman, in real life, that tragedy happens, and above all, love.Erich Segal was on the track team with me at Harvard and ran the Boston Marathon with me several times. My father adored even the ancient roots of popular entertainment, and unlike many others in his field, understood that to move the broader public, to speak to the hearts of the people, requires an understanding of and a care for the everyman. science - but more than anything else they are very human stories fast-paced, engaging plots about warm and vivid charatcters, real people we can root for. Each takes on a broad, serious subject - religion, family, infidelity, medicine. It is no coincidence that my father was a Classicist - the arc of his story is as old as time, and ever relevant. My father, a few years older and still grieving the death of his own father, was consumed by the story. He was a young dynamic professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale and he had just learned a former student of his from Harvard had lost his wife to cancer at twenty-five. He was 30 when he sat down, one frigid, snow-silenced winter break in Cambridge, Massachusettes, to write Love Story.
They have his heart and soul and honesty and humour, and that combination, rarer than it should be, is alchemical. My father was such a gentle man, and as a result he wrote innocent, tender novels. But I know his novels, and I was lucky enough to know their extraordinary author. My father became world famous - beloved by the reading public, pilloried by an envious academic community who believed that professors ought not to venture into popular culture.
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