FEAST OR FAMINE

Moving Pictures  (1991) is American actress Ali MacGraw’s autobiography. She is best known for her role as Jenny Cavilleri in “Love Story” (1970) with Ryan O’Neal and the 1972 film “The Getaway” playing Carol McCoy with Steve McQueen.    She begins, at 50 years of age, after she bought her first home in Tesuque, New Mexico, where she still lives. It is from this home that she recalls 1967 renting an apartment in New York. Her life drastically changed when she ‘simultaneously’ met film producer Bob Evans and starred as Jenny in “Love Story” – her second movie after “Goodbye Columbus” in 1969. She married Bob and left him two years later to marry Steve McQueen in 1973 – the power couple of the Seventies. Bob Evans went on to produce “The Godfather” in 1972, “Chinatown” in 1974, and “The Great Gatsby” in 1974.   I liked her brief description of working as Diana Vreeland’s assistant at  Harper’s Bazaar  magazine in New York in 1960 – reminiscent of Meryl Streep’s role in the 2006 film “The