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To: Phil Tuzz who wrote (1036)	3/15/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 5853

Must feel strongly about it if it inspired you to make only your second post in 2 1/2 years.

To: Phil Tuzz who wrote (1036)	3/15/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 5853

Is that all? A short while back AlGore claimed that he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story. The author of LS, Erich Segal, said Gore was essentially nuts. So that's why they call Gore the InterNUT. Al misled us on Love Story connection Vice President Al Gore acknowledged Sunday a "miscommunication" on his part in leading reporters to believe he and his wife were the model for the 1970s hot romance novel "Love Story." The author, Erich Segal, told The New York Times he was "befuddled" by the comments in the first place. He said he called Gore, and the vice president said it was a misunderstanding. On Sunday, Gore spokeswoman Ginny Terzano borrowed a line from the book in offering Gore's apology. "If love means never having to say you're sorry, then politics means you have to say it all the time," Terzano said. "We apologize if there was a miscommunication with reporters in an off-the-record conversation where they did not take notes." Segal told the Times he got to know both Gore and his roommate -- actor Tommy Lee Jones -- during his 1968 sabbatical at Harvard. Jones got his acting break with a small part in the film version of Segal's book. When creating Oliver Barrett 4th, the book's romantic hero, Segal said, Jones inspired the side that was "the tough, macho guy who's a poet at heart." Gore was the basis for the side that had a controlling father and was pressured to follow in that father's footsteps, he said. "That was the conflict, to keep up the family tradition. Albert Gore Sr., Albert Gore Jr., Oliver Barrett 3rd, Oliver Barrett 4th -- you have to change some things," Segal said. Segal said he knew Mrs. Gore, then a Boston University student, but she wasn't the basis for his female love interest, the hip, flip Jenny Cavilleri. Segal has previously said she was inspired by a woman he dated at Harvard. Terzano said the Love Story character "is an endearing footnote" in Gore's life. "Love Story buffs should not blow it out of proportion, nor attempt to write a new sequel to this American classic," she said. The controversy grew from a Time magazine report about Gore's musings aboard Air Force Two following a three-city tour of Texas last month. Gore spoke of an old Tennessee newspaper account that said he and his wife, Tipper, were the models for Oliver and Jenny. Segal said Gore told him he only told the reporters the article made an erroneous connection. capitolhillblue.com cgi.pathfinder.com I guess Gore must have a colossal inferiority complex to keep making these things up, especially since any idiot would know that the truth will out eventually.