Love Story
Critics moaned but audiences swooned over Arthur Hiller’s antiquated sob story, a 40’s-style tearjerker for the Me Decade. The film’s screenwriter, Erich Segal, churned out the novel as part of the movie’s marketing campaign—voilà, a best-seller in bookstores and at the box office. Though the film made stars out of Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, a Paramount exec determined the movie’s real reason for its success, declaring it a “cinematic aphrodisiac.”
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About Allan Arkush
A record collector and film buff from birth, Allan Arkush brought his two loves together in directing the cult classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Back in the day Allan was directing and executive producing television series like Heroes, and Crossing Jordan. He has also directed episodes of Ally McBeal, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, Fame, A Series of Unfortunate Events and TV Movies like Elvis Meets Nixon and Shake Rattle & Rock as well as the mini-series, The Temptations, for which he won an Emmy. He used to have a lost film, Get Crazy, but Kino/Lorber found it in time for Christmas 2021. His day job is teaching Film production & history at the AFI.
This, and Airport, were both Best Picture nominees…as were Five Easy Pieces and Patton (that year’s Best Picture winner).
Allan Arkush is the goat
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