BREAKING NEWS: "LOVE STORY" author is DEAD.....dateline January 19, 2009

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The author of "Love Story" is being reported as dead, tragically dying at the age of 72 after suffering from horrendous Parkinson's Disease for 25 years.

ERIC SEGAL

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34940007/ns/today-today_books/

He wrote "LOVE STORY" while a professor at Harvard University. It is about a young couple who meet while attending Harvard...Oliver, the scion of a rich family, and Jenny, a commoner on a scholarship to Harvard.

As this couple falls deeply in love, Oliver's father is enraged that HIS son would "fall" for such a women with NO pedigree and social standing. He scorns his son.

Tragically, Jenny contracts cancer, and dies in a hospital bed in a low quality hospital in Boston, having no health insurance...and Oliver rejected by his millionaire father.

The first"YOU TUBE" link I provide below show the FINAL SCENE from "LOVE STORY" where Oliver confronts his father, right after Jenny has DIED. He then walks out into a park, sits at a skating rink where the two often skated in total joy and bliss...and WEEPS, losing ALL that he EVER HAD.

The other links present the overwhelming, heart-breaking theme from "LOVE STORY"...which won an Academy Award for the BEST MUSICAL SCORE and to this day when played here in the USA many openly WEEP, as Oliver does.

I dedicate this thread to ERIC SEGAL, to his book "LOVE STORY"...and to the heart-rendering theme from the subsequent screenplay "LOVE STORY"....... music composed by Francis Lai and performed by Henry Mancini .

Every time I play this work on my piano, it brings me great sadness and the knowledge that we all will someday die and LOSE ALL that we so cherish.


:sm (41): :sm (41): :sm (47):

"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING to SAY YOU'RE SORRY."

:sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35)::sm (35):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kmrb1LNjeE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlNhHGUfDU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltt5XYThGjY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_FklOwMyoE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbQY8_vk1M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITswHbJPHhQ&feature=related
 
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A great soul has been lost.
The movie was a great one, I cried many times because of all the emotions in it.

May he rest in peace and may he find peace in the afterlife!!!
 
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