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Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...
...addressed his father as "Sir," she called her dad "Phil." His father was "in" with the Dean at Harvard Law School, hers baked pastries or, rather, cookies. There was a Harvard building christened with his surname; her Italian last name, Cavilleri, had too many syllables and hard vowels for it to be an issue. But in 1970, WASP-extraordinare Harvard student Oliver Barrett III and foul-mouthed Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri fell in love in Love Story. Almost three decades later, Good Will Hunting paired up another well-to-do Harvard undergrad with another from a lower social class...
Penned by Erich Segal '58 and later expanded into a novel, "Love Story" chronicles the tragic romance between straight-laced Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett IV, played by Ryan O'Neal, and bohemian, bookish Radcliffe undergraduate Jenny Cavilleri, played by Ali McGraw...
...very religious person in that I do not attend Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and other holiday services regularly and I have doubts about what Jenny Cavilleri of Love Story refers to as "the God-blessing bit," I often find it difficult to integrate the religious and cultural aspects of being Jewish. I grew up almost implicitly recognizing the influence that Jewish habits, mannerisms, sayings--in short, Jewish culture--had on my lifestyle...
...week tradition. "I haven't seen it in ten years. It's so far from my reality now," she says. "I just don't take it seriously anymore, though, let's face it, it changed my career." But as much as McGraw breathlessly exonerates herself from the movie, Jenny Cavilleri is grafted onto her. She knows this. Yet she can't understand why people "in the most obscure corners of the globe" come up to her in the street and relate to her as the baker's daughter from Providence who died in Ryan O'Neal's arms...