Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 26, 2016
February 25, 2016
February 27, 2016
Transcript:
Pastor: ...I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. We'll now have the eulogistic reading. Curtis? Curtis: You got it, your grace. What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful, and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach and The Beatles. And me. Zonker: Curtis, what the hell is that? Curtis: It's from "Love Story." it was the closest I could find in the library.
Erich Segal’s “Love Story” is proof of H. L. Mencken’s insight “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” For more laughs google: site:www.nytimes.com “love story” segal reviewThe review has such classics as “Curiously, the novel, which I found almost unreadable” and “I can’t remember any movie of such comparable high-style, kitsch”. Every college should have a literature course called Crap 101 where big money making garbage like “Love Story” is studied in great detail because how else can you make a living with a B.A. in Literature.