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, some trees were “injured and killed” by
Love Story’s fake snow. Did the two of you know that this was an issue at the time?
MacGraw: Oh wow. This is the first time I’ve heard that. It’s a real pain in the neck to have a film on location, especially at a serious school. It’s disconcerting, and there’s also a tendency for some stuff to get inadvertently messed up. So it doesn’t surprise me, but that’s not OK. That’s not OK. This is a gorgeous school that is several hundred years old, and if they were concerned about their property being trashed, I think that’s a fair thing. I can’t imagine it had anything to do with the movie, but rather with some sloppy crew stuff, maybe. I don’t remember trashing any trees when we shot that.
Love Story is one of cinema s most iconic scores.
The lush central ballad, which helped composer Francis Lai win an Oscar, is instantly recognizable. And no matter where he goes in the world, star Ryan O Neal is greeted with it.
But it could ve been a lot worse for O Neal. The filmmakers had originally hired Jimmy Webb, the songwriter behind pop hits like MacArthur Park, to write music for the film. He got the job to do the music originally, and he went away to the mountains or something to work on the score, O Neal tells EW. When he came back, he had this music that went, Jenny s dead, she s gone and she s dead.
Robert C. Jones, Esteemed Film Editor and Oscar-Winning Coming Home Screenwriter, Dies at 84
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His daughter, Leslie Jones who is also an Oscar-nominated film editor confirmed to
Variety that Jones died on Feb. 1 following a long illness.
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“My Dad had a tremendous impact on my own editing career with whom I worked on several films as his assistant,” Leslie said in a statement. “Like Bob I did not go to film school and had no formal training in editing. But what I learned was that editing does not always require a specific skill set. He taught me that talent instead is guided by a sense of compassion, and integrity, and the search for truth and authenticity. He had all that and more.”
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