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Zoneboy · 01-19-2010, 01:03 PM

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Erich Segal, best known as the author of Love Story, died on Sunday of a heart attack, his friend Ned Temko said today. He was 72.

Segal wrote the bestselling book about love and bereavement, which became a chart-topping film, in 1969 when he was 32 and a classics professor at Harvard. As its most famous line, "love means never having to say you're sorry", entered popular culture, Segal became a celebrity and regular on TV shows, as well as a commentator on the Olympic games for the ABC network.

However, he continued to write right up to his death, producing more than half a dozen novels, essays, literary criticism and, with his dear friend and comrade-in-comedy, Jack Rosenthal, a new English translation of the opening Friday-night Hebrew prayer for the West London Reform Synagogue. His last major work, in 2001, was a scholarly look at the history of comedy, and of dirty jokes, from the ancient Greeks through to Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove.

Segal is survived by his wife and editorial collaborator, Karen, his elder daughter, the writer Francesca Segal, and his younger daughter Miranda, a student at Bristol University.

catlover79 · 01-19-2010, 01:17 PM

Janice · 01-19-2010, 03:48 PM

How sad, and not old either, to me anyway. Love Story was a huge book when I was a kid; but boy what a crock that "love means never having to say you're sorry" was. More like "love means apologizing left and right", lol. Mr. Segal was a good writer.

Scoobiedoo30 · 01-19-2010, 05:15 PM

RIP

80sTrivia · 01-19-2010, 06:33 PM

So sorry to hear of Erich's passing...

Marvo301 · 01-19-2010, 07:13 PM

Erich Segal

TripperFan · 01-21-2010, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Janice

How sad, and not old either, to me anyway. Love Story was a huge book when I was a kid; but boy what a crock that "love means never having to say you're sorry" was. More like "love means apologizing left and right", lol. Mr. Segal was a good writer.

You can sure say that again!!

My brother took his then girlfriend to see Love Story and when it got to that part, most of the chicks in the theatre were sniffin' and in tears and my brother couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing! His gf wasn't very impressed but I'm sure if she's watched it again since, she'd even say it was the biggest pile of corn ever.

Sorry to hear of Segal's death though and may he rest in peace.

catlover79 · 01-21-2010, 02:02 PM

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You can sure say that again!!

My brother took his then girlfriend to see Love Story and when it got to that part, most of the chicks in the theatre were sniffin' and in tears and my brother couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing! His gf wasn't very impressed but I'm sure if she's watched it again since, she'd even say it was the biggest pile of corn ever.

Sorry to hear of Segal's death though and may he rest in peace.

I think a lot of guys must have cracked up at that part. When I worked at a movie theater, it was so funny to see couples going to see the chick flicks and the guy looked like he was walking the plank.

TripperFan · 01-21-2010, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

I think a lot of guys must have cracked up at that part. When I worked at a movie theater, it was so funny to see couples going to see the chick flicks and the guy looked like he was walking the plank.

I thought I was sentimental (I still lose it with Terms of Endearment) but even I cracked up at all. What schmaltz!! And I remember my mom freaking at the time when he climbs into her hospital bed with her. She's yelling at the t.v. that no hospital would allow him to do that!

She was still looking pretty hot too - not the usual for the end stages of cancer.
Oh well, it was the early 70s afterall....

catlover79 · 01-21-2010, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pus$y Galore

I thought I was sentimental (I still lose it with Terms of Endearment) but even I cracked up at all. What schmaltz!! And I remember my mom freaking at the time when he climbs into her hospital bed with her. She's yelling at the t.v. that no hospital would allow him to do that!

She was still looking pretty hot too - not the usual for the end stages of cancer.
Oh well, it was the early 70s afterall....

That's hilarious. I rather enjoyed the movie and the soundtrack but grounded in reality, it's not.

Family Ties Forever! · 01-22-2010, 11:49 PM

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