How much money have you made on all your projects? 'But it's my style, I can't help it, it's me. 'Yeah, that's what the guy from Newsweek said,' Segal admitted. You sound more like a press agent than a novelist, I jested. 'This is the movie Kramer has always wanted to make! You'll feel the heat from a volcano! Go and see it with an asbestos suit on!' I asked Segal if he thinks the movie will be any good. The 'RPM' screenplay for Stanley Kramer deals with the campus revolution. The movie, he said, stars Ali MacGraw ('Goodbye Columbus') and Ryan O'Neal ('Peyton Place'), 'Are they good together?' he asked himself, and whistled, 'It's like Garbo's back and Gable's got her!' I asked myself, who's the best erotic writer of our time, the best writer of rub-a-dub-dub scenes? John Updike! So let him do it! I'll do what I do best!' In 130 pages, there are only three colors mentioned, man! And where I said her eyes were brown, I regret that, now. In 'Love Story,' I left out everything that wasn't necessary. 'The new novel has got to take McLuhan into account,' he explained. His novel, he said, will reach the young people because it is written for them. I'd like to get out there on the lake front for a while, jog, maybe 10 miles, just sort of thinking. I run 10 miles a day, but on this publicity tour, nothing. 'All this food,' he said 'I'm out of shape. Plus I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin and I dated June Wilkinson!' I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games.

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles.

I've written, during that same time, a musical comedy with Richard Rodgers that has gone through 18 drafts. 'I've been teaching full-time at Harvard. 'I've been incredibly busy the last two years,' he said. The peculiar thing is the rest of the time he's a classics professor at Harvard. Segal was in town to run a race with the customers at Kroch's and Brentano's: The idea was to see if he could autograph copies faster than they were buying them. Leukemia at the end of the book, and it seems to be selling to Rod McKuen fans the world over. It is the tender yet bittersweet tale of a college student who falls in love with a girl who dies of The novel is ' Love Story,' and it is indeed very big. The book costs $4.95, which is the price of a record album, because I want kids to treat it that way.' I came along at the moment to say what everyone wanted to believe in. 'My book came out just as the world was turning fromĬynicism to romance. With only a brief longing look at his steak, Segal 'I lucked out, that's what happened,' he explained.

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