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Erich Segal

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The Resume

    (June 16, 1937-January 17, 2010)
    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Classics professor at Yale, Harvard and Princeton
    Best known for the novel 'Love Story' (1970)
    Also wrote 'Oliver's Story' (1977), 'Man, Woman and Child' (1980), 'The Class' (1985), 'Doctors' (1988), 'Acts of Faith' (1992), 'Prizes' (1995) and 'Only Love' (1998)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was rejected for a staff writer position at the 'Harvard Crimson.'
    'Love Story' started as a screenplay and was turned into a novel only after no studio expressed interest in it.
    He gave us the hokey line 'Love means never having to say you're sorry.'
    When 'Love Story' was submitted for the National Book Award, two judges threatened to resign and Segal himself admitted, 'I honestly don’t think I should be placed on the same page as Bellow and Updike.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine.' (1968)
    'Love Story' was the best-selling novel of 1970 and the highest grossing film of 1971.
    He served as an Olympics commentator for ABC.
    He wrote a scholarly history of comedy from the ancient Greeks to Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 92 Votes: 55.43% Annoying