![]() “The banality of ‘Love Story’ makes ‘Peyton Place’ look like ‘Swann’s Way’ as it skips from cliché to cliché with an abandon that would chill even the blood of a True Romance editor,” Newsweek wrote. While millions of readers swooned, most reviewers harrumphed. Segal also wrote “The Death of Comedy” (Harvard University, 2001), a well-received survey of Western comic drama from antiquity to modernity. Segal’s writing credits ranged from the screenplay for the animated Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” (1968), on which he collaborated with several other writers to “Roman Laughter” (Harvard University, 1968), a study of the playwright Plautus that was widely considered seminal to the book and lyrics for “Sing Muse!” (1961), a musical version of the Helen of Troy story that ran for 39 performances Off Broadway.Īmong his other novels are “Oliver’s Story” (Harper & Row, 1977), which continues the tale of Oliver Barrett “The Class” (Bantam, 1985) “Doctors” (Bantam, 1988) “Acts of Faith” (Bantam, 1992) and “Only Love” (Putnam, 1997). Gore in the late 1960s, when they were students at Harvard and he was there on sabbatical.īefore “Love Story,” Mr. ![]() He did say that he had modeled Oliver’s freighted relationship with his father on the Gore family. ![]() ![]() Segal set the record straight: Oliver, he said, was mainly a youthful incarnation of the actor Tommy Lee Jones. ![]()
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