Book Vs Movie "Love Story" (1970) Ryan O'Neal & Ali MacGraw

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie: “Love Story”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The 1970 Novel & Film Explores Love, Loss, and the Use of the Word “Sorry”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/p2259_p_v10_aa.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="400" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since we have just been added to the amazing lineup shows that are a part of the</span> <a href= "https://frolic.media/podcasts/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Frolic Podcast Network</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, the Margos thought it was time to cover a classic book & film that our listeners are clamoring for since the start of the show. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1969, author and screenwriter</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Segal"><strong>Erich Segal</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">pitched a film to his literary agent Lois Wallace at the William Morris Agency called</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(1970_film)"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ‘Love Story</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.’ She wisely advised him to write it as a book and then sell the rights to a movie studio. The book was a smash hit and sold millions of copies in time for the December movie release starring</span> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641939/"><strong>Ryan O’Neal</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532298/"><strong>Ali MacGraw</strong></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You could not escape the book, movie, the music, or the ‘</span><a href= "http://armchairactorvist.blogspot.com/2010/01/ali-macgraws-disease.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ali McGraw disease</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” which became a common film trope. It was completely maligned by snobs as pablum but the public didn’t