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(03-15-2015 10:26 AM)brtmchl Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 07:27 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

I believe that was a claim he made as Vice President.

I believe you're right, Mike; it's ringing a bell with me. It seems he wasn't too popular among those who had to protect him either.

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(03-15-2015 12:31 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 10:26 AM)brtmchl Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 07:27 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

I believe that was a claim he made as Vice President.

I believe you're right, Mike; it's ringing a bell with me. It seems he wasn't too popular among those who had to protect him either.

Oops! Here's the bell that was ringing:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— Erich Segal, author of the weeper ''Love Story,'' said today that only the emotional family baggage of the romantic hero in his novel was inspired by a young Al Gore.

Mr. Segal knocked down recent reports, based on comments by the Vice President, that Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the models for the young lovers in his 1970 book and the subsequent movie starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Those reports were half-true, Mr. Segal said: The character of the preppy Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett 4th was modeled on both Mr. Gore and his college roommate, the actor Tommy Lee Jones.

But it was Mr. Jones who inspired the half of the character that was a sensitive stud, a macho athlete with the heart of a poet, Mr. Segal said. The author attributed to Mr. Gore only the character's controlling father and feeling that his family was pressuring him to follow in Dad's footsteps.

Mr. Segal said he knew the two of them at Harvard when he was on sabbatical there in 1968, and knew Mrs. Gore as well. But the character of the cool, smart-mouthed Radcliffe musician, Jenny Cavilleri, was in no way based on Mrs. Gore, Mr. Segal said, and the wild romance in the novel was not inspired by the couple.

''I did not draw a thing from Tipper,'' he said. ''I knew her only as Al's date.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/us/aut...es-a-gore-