Death means never having to say you're sorry: Erich Segal

[Rilchiam]

Did you know he also wrote Yellow Submarine? The screenplay, I mean.

[Rilchiam]

Mods, please, please, I beg you, fix the spelling error in the title! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sooooooo sorry!

[KneadToKnow]

@Rilchiam

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sooooooo sorry!

So it’s not love, then?

[Marley23]

@Rilchiam

Mods, please, please, I beg you, fix the spelling error in the title! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sooooooo sorry!

Done.

[Kimstu]

Wanna link? (obituary in the UK Guardian)

[…] He not only became a regular on TV chatshows but, as an accomplished marathon runner and all-round sports fan, was enlisted by the ABC network to join its commentary team for a string of Olympic Games. […]

His father had always hoped, and no doubt expected, that Erich would become a rabbi. But when he was a teenager, they came to a deal. He would be allowed to attend the excellent local state school, as long as he agreed to spend evenings studying the Bible at the city’s Jewish Theological Seminary. […]

During the US presidential election of 2000, he had the bizarre experience of watching two of his former students, Al Gore and George W Bush, vie for the Oval Office. […]

His last major book was not a novel but a scholarly work. Its genesis lay in his Harvard PhD thesis four decades earlier. Called The Death of Comedy (2001), it traced the history of laugh-making, and of dirty jokes, from the ancient Greeks through to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove.