R.I.P.: Erich Segal
 

Segal wrote the 1970 novel Love Story (which bore the iconic quote "Love means never having to say you're sorry"). He was 72.

More about him here.

Widely acknowledged but actually quite false was the claim that Segal wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' 1968 cartoon movie Yellow Submarine. In 1983, I chatted via phone with Jack Mendelsohn, one of the credited screenwriters of the movie and he had a different take. Jack (who wrote for the Beatles' cartoon show in 1965) was at Hanna-Barbera and was approached by producer Al Brodax to write the screenplay after United Artists rejected two other screenplays (by Lee Minoff, who wrote the outline, and Ernie Pintoff). Jack took a three-week leave from H-B to write the Submarine screenplay, and after he turned it in, Brodax gave it to Segal to "punch it up." So since Segal was the last man on the screenplay and was with Brodax at the time, he's been the one everybody believes wrote the screenplay.

Lee Minoff's name and Al Brodax's is in the credits because Brodax--as producer--could do that. Animated movies' screenwriter credits do not fall under the same jurisdiction as with live action movies.

I know that Pintoff won an Oscar for a short subject called The Critic (1963). Had the voice of Mel Brooks.

Yeah. I actually liked The Violinist (1959) better though.