![]() Segal’s writing credits ranged from the screenplay for the animated Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” (1968), on which he collaborated with several other writers to “Roman Laughter” (Harvard University, 1968), a study of the playwright Plautus that was widely considered seminal to the book and lyrics for “Sing Muse!” (1961), a musical version of the Helen of Troy story that ran for 39 performances Off Broadway.Īmong his other novels are “Oliver’s Story” (Harper & Row, 1977), which continues the tale of Oliver Barrett “The Class” (Bantam, 1985) “Doctors” (Bantam, 1988) “Acts of Faith” (Bantam, 1992) and “Only Love” (Putnam, 1997). Gore in the late 1960s, when they were students at Harvard and he was there on sabbatical.īefore “Love Story,” Mr. He did say that he had modeled Oliver’s freighted relationship with his father on the Gore family. Segal set the record straight: Oliver, he said, was mainly a youthful incarnation of the actor Tommy Lee Jones. ![]()
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