![]() ![]() In 1970, the original film was nominated for seven academy awards and named one of the 100 most romantic films of all time by the American Film Institute, a creditable achievement by any standard. An introduction by the author's daughter Francesca Segal and insights about how the book came about is both a delight to old timers who get nostalgic and youngsters who marvel at the timelessness of an emotion that resulted in the book being translated into 33 languages with many film re-makes all over the world. ![]() ![]() The romantic, funny and tragic novel that dealt with love, loss and everything in between, remains popular to this day, a fact attested by the special 50th anniversary edition of the book released in 2020. It inspired an entire generation making its author Erich Segal a celebrity overnight. The interesting exchange, one of many between Oliver Barrett 1V from a rich entitled family and Jenny Cavilleri, the wise cracking working class Italian beauty studying music at Radcliffe, who are diametric opposites succumbing to the law of magnetism (where unlike poles attract each other) became the epitome of love as lead characters in the best- selling novel and blockbuster film "Love Story" in 1970. "That." She replied, is what makes you stupid. ![]()
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