Silvia is the British-educated only child of an Italian automotive tycoon who provides a bodyguard to protect her. (Segal modeled it on Doctors Without Borders.)Īmong the other doctors is the elegant Silvia Dalessandro, played by French actress Mathilda May. Rob Morrow, who played a young physician on "Northern Exposure," is Matthew Hiller, the son of a Detroit auto factory worker, an accomplished pianist and a newly minted doctor who has applied to do a turn with Medicin Internationale, an organization of idealistic physicians headquartered in Amsterdam. It combines some themes of "Love Story" and some of "The Doctors." Segal's latest tale, "Only Love," airs Sunday and Monday at 9 on CBS. Over the years, he's written other bestsellers, including "The Doctors," "Acts of Faith," "The Class" and "Prizes." Four of his books have been filmed. Segal is a fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College.
("Love Story" wasn't Segal's first screenplay he also had written one for The Beatles' movie "Yellow Submarine" in 1968.)įast-forward three decades.
Segal's book sold more than 21 million copies in 33 languages, and his screenplay brought him a Golden Globe Award and one of the film's seven Oscar nominations. When she dies, viewers, and readers, sobbed. Classics professor Erich Segal has had a certain success crafting romantic tales for ordinary people.īack in 1970, when he was 33, Segal's novel "Love Story" became a hit movie starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal as Jenny and Oliver, Ivy League college students so in love that they ignore their families' wishes - he's a rich WASP, she's from a more humble Italian-American background - and marry.
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