The passing of American actor Ryan O'Neal brought my attention to the 1970 movie Love Story, and I thought I might like to watch it now, since I did not see it at the time.
It's fifteen dollars to stream on Amazon, if you buy it, 4 dollars to rent it.
The problem with renting is, after I see a movie I may want to buy it so I can watch it anytime and then that makes it nineteen dollars - 4 for one-time rental, plus 15 to own.
I can skip the rental and just pay 15.
But - considering budget etc., and two other O'Neal pictures (Paper Moon and What's Up, Doc? are available to stream for free, right now, with Amazon Prime, I decided to be happy with that.
Apparently, from what I have read, there's a scene where O'Neal's character, Oliver, plays hockey with Harvard's team and he gets in trouble for fighting. (This would kind of mirror some of Ryan O'Neal's real-life exploits....)
It made me remember something I don't think about that often - during my freshman year at Boston University, the guy I was dating took me to see a hockey game between B.U. and Harvard. - At the Boston Garden - where, a year later, I would see Bob Dylan perform onstage for the first time.
I remember being really shocked, and taken aback when a fight broke out. (At the hockey game, not the Dylan concert...) I just wasn't expecting that at all.
I thought our B.U. players were above brawling - you're supposed to "be a good sport," was what our generation was taught, growing up.
And I thought it was even more shocking that Harvard students would engage in the "socking" of players on the opposing team. I didn't think there was any hitting in hockey. And I imagined that students at Harvard would be sophisticated and elegant.
The battering did not seem elegant.
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