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Its title. The title “Goodbye, Columbus” is a quote from a song that was sung by the departing seniors, including Brenda's brother, Ron, at their graduation from the Ohio State University at Columbus. Ron dearly enjoys listening to a record of the song that evokes his years as a varsity athlete on a campus where sports are important.
- Philip Roth
- 1959
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella of the same name by Philip Roth. The screenplay, by Arnold Schulman , won the Writers Guild of America Award .
Apr 6, 2017 · A story of a summer romance, a satirical sketch of suburban arriviste Jews in the fifties—sure. But when I stumbled on Philip Roth’s first book on the shelf of my high school library, “Goodbye, Columbus” seemed to me above all a brief against marriage.
Goodbye, Columbus. An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Larry Peerce
- 1969-05-21
Dec 14, 2012 · Judging by the 17-year-olds in his movie, it’s possible. The confrontation with the makers of “Goodbye, Columbus” was quite a different matter. Larry Peerce, the director, and Stanley Jaffe, the producer, were both clearly delighted with the success of their movie and willing to discuss it objectively.
Neil Klugman works in the public library and lives in New York with his Jewish aunt, rather than in Arizona with his parents. College-girl Brenda Patimkin very much lives with her well-to-do Jewish family. The two are attracted and start seeing each other.
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A surprisingly engaging film from 1969, "Goodbye Columbus" is based on Philip Roth's novel from a decade earlier. It centers on the summer romance between two Jewish young people from radically-different backgrounds, and highlights class differences in the Jewish-American community and the changing sexual mores of the period.
