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Persephone

Persephone Report 21 Jan 2010 05:58

Yeah cept me... wasn't very nice of me .. but I just did a big sigh. I had already read the book by then.

Perse who can be worse.

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The latest tree member our Grandson, Stellan born 09/12/14

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 21 Jan 2010 04:21

Hi girls, Love Story was a very special film at the time wasn't it, one of those tearjerkers for most people watching.

Lizx

Persephone

Persephone Report 21 Jan 2010 02:56

Hi Liz and Barbara

I have read all his books - I always enjoyed them.
And I did see Love Story and no I didn't cry but turned around to see who was crying behind me when it was over and here was a woman I worked with.

How is your brother Barbara? Anymore news?

Persey

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The latest tree member our Grandson, Stellan born 09/12/14

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 20 Jan 2010 21:18




Just saw this :



Love Story author Erich Segal dies from heart attack

Erich Segal was nominated for an Oscar for his Love Story screenplay
Love Story author Erich Segal has died from a heart attack at home in London aged 72, his daughter has said.

Segal was a classics professor at Yale University when he wrote the book, which became an Oscar-winning 1970 film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Francesca Segal said her father, who died on Sunday, had suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years.

New York-born Segal also wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine.


At his funeral in London on Tuesday, Ms Segal said during the eulogy: "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was, a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity.

"He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know."

Love Story, which had the tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry", was nominated for seven Oscars - including Segal's screenplay - and won one for best original score.

Segal, who was an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is survived by his wife Karen James and daughters Francesca, 29, and Miranda, 20.

Lizx