September 16, 2017

Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D.



"Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D., is a fictional character appearing in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine."
Jeremy Hillary Boob was originally named Jeremy Y. du Q. Adams, after Southern Methodist University professor Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams. The character of Jeremy was intended as a parody of public intellectuals and polymaths, most notably theatrical director and doctor, Jonathan Miller, whom story writer Lee Minoff had previously worked with. He is also alleged to have been inspired by Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne.
From 2016: "The Dallas Man Who Inspired Yellow Submarine's Jeremy Hillary Boob Has Died."
“What parents do to kids is awful,” [Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams] said in an interview with the Observer in June, 2015. Back in the '60s, he was going by Jeremy Y. du Q. Adams, which his friend Erich Segal, who invented the character, loved. The character’s name was originally Jeremy Y. du Boob before being changed to Jeremy Hillary Boob....
Apparently, "Hillary" is funnier than "Y. du Q."

Adams was a professor of history specializing in Medieval Europe. He also wrote books at a furious pace, which is why Jeremy Hillary Boob is using his feet to write “footnotes” for his 19th book in the film....

Segal gave Adams’ character fitting Latin tag lines like “Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo. So little time—so much to know!” “I don’t think I went around saying that,” Adams said. “I hope not. Maybe I did.” Adams was studying at Harvard in the '60s when he met Segal, who was working on the screenplay for Yellow Submarine....

Adams also showed us his “Yellow Submarine Room,” an entire room painted yellow and packed full of memorabilia based on the film.... Adams remembered the film as representative of a certain 1960s sentiment, when people really believed that love is all you need....
Erich Segal went on to write "Love Story," which has that quote about love that's almost as famous (and false) as The Beatles "All you need is love": "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Maybe like me you're still dogged by the old question: Was "Love Story" based on Al Gore? Here's how the NYT processed the embarrassing claim (in 1997, perhaps as part of clearing the path to his cheesily tragic presidential run):
Erich Segal... knocked down recent reports, based on comments by the Vice President, that Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the models for the young lovers in his 1970 book and the subsequent movie starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Those reports were half-true, Mr. Segal said: The character of the preppy Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett 4th was modeled on both Mr. Gore and his college roommate, the actor Tommy Lee Jones.

But it was Mr. Jones who inspired the half of the character that was a sensitive stud, a macho athlete with the heart of a poet, Mr. Segal said. The author attributed to Mr. Gore only the character's controlling father and feeling that his family was pressuring him to follow in Dad's footsteps....

But the character of the cool, smart-mouthed Radcliffe musician, Jenny Cavilleri, was in no way based on Mrs. Gore, Mr. Segal said, and the wild romance in the novel was not inspired by the couple. ''I did not draw a thing from Tipper,'' he said. ''I knew her only as Al's date.''...

Mr. Segal said he had been ''befuddled'' by the report, which was published in Time magazine this week, and had called the Vice President to find out what had happened. Mr. Gore told Mr. Segal that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Then, Mr. Segal said, Mr. Gore told him, ''Let's remember what happened.'' And, he said, ''It's important now.''...

It has been a difficult year for Mr. Gore, who was implicated in questionable campaign fund-raising practices. An article that the famously wooden Vice President was the model for a strong, romantic hero might have cast him in a softer light as he approaches an anticipated run for the Presidency in 2000.

The Time magazine article about the Vice President included this passage: ''Around midnight, after a three-city tour of Texas last month, the Vice President came wandering back to the press compartment of Air Force Two. Sliding behind a table with the two reporters covering him that day, he picked slices of fruit from their plates and spent two hours swapping opinions about movies and telling stories about old chums like Erich Segal, who, Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in 'Love Story.' ''...
If only Erich Segal had backed up Al Gore's bullshit story that he and Tipper were the models for the characters in "Love Story," Gore would have won!

By the way, I love the detail "he picked slices of fruit from their plates." Gore.

And speaking of funny names, what about Dingell-Norwood?

25 comments:

Darrell said...

This is why Hillary Clinton lost. Vast Right-wing conspiracy.

madAsHell said...

I'm sure I've said "I'm sorry" many times, but all I hear is "Get the fuck over it".

buwaya said...

Writing dozens of volumes of history - the ultimate career I think. Had I been a rich man ... well, I am, now, to a degree, but not yet free of obligations.

Dust Bunny Queen said...
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Dust Bunny Queen said...

To Al Gore....you're so vain. I bet you thought that movie was about you.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

CNN should sue the Beatles for saying boob. Grab em' by the pussy, CNN. You pussies.

The Vault Dweller said...

Back to back boob posts? We're approaching pre-revolutionary, aristocratic, French levels of décolletage here.

Carol said...

the character of the cool, smart-mouthed Radcliffe musician

Did anyone really like this character? I sure didn't. I guess I am too socal by nature to get it.

Meade said...

Love means never having to say your chakra.

The Godfather said...

Next you're going to tell me Al didn't invent the internet.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

"Hillary Boob" is something most of us do not want to think about.

I don't think the English use the word "boobs" for breasts much, I think they prefer "tits."

"Tit," btw, is also used there to describe a foolish person. I was startled when a man at a party was describing a mildly embarrassing situation he found himself in and said "I felt a great tit." I wondered for a second why the hell he was talking about his sex life and what it had to do with the story.

So the question is: how did slang terms for breasts become synonymous with slang words for nitwits? In the case of "boob" I'm pretty sure that boob meant idiot before it meant what fills a bra cup.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

This post and the ones about Harry Dean Stanton (actor) who just died, made me realize how many movies, some that are considered "iconic", I have never seen. Love Story was one, so I have no ability to relate to the discussion about the movie. I did see Yellow Submarine, but not a Beatles fan and thought it pretty dumb.

I haven't seen one Rocky movie. My husband just made me watch Saturday Nite Fever a short time ago. (The song Staying Alive makes more sense now)

Why I haven't seen these hundreds of movies that everyone else has? /shrug

Probably I should catch up to the rest of society and watch some movies on Netflix or YouTube or something.

Michael K said...

Tipper pulled the ripcord once the political career was over.

She seems to be in orbit around Al and his money but doing her own thing.

Michael K said...

how did slang terms for breasts become synonymous with slang words for nitwits? In the case of "boob" I'm pretty sure that boob meant idiot before it meant what fills a bra cup.

I think it became a sort of Victorian synonym for breast a long time ago. When I was in college, girls referred to their "boobs" rather than breasts or teats.

Darrell said...

The English prefer "bristols" and "baps" over "tits." Tits still has shock value and is reserved for when you need to bring out the big guns.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

DBQ: Do not think for a second that you are missing out on something because you didn't see "Love Story."

I have never seen "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and so I don't get the references made to that movie The difference is "Close Encounters" is, I'm told, a good movie. "Love Story" is basically a '30's "weepy" where the heroine dies of Terminal Movie Disease that keeps her lovely until her last breath, with The Generation Gap thrown in to make things groovy.

rcocean said...

Would Trump have gotten into so much trouble if he'd said "Grab 'em by their boobs"?

rcocean said...

Love story means never having to say your sorry. Even for not watching Love Story.

rcocean said...

i never liked Close Encounters and never understood why it was popular - but then that's true of a lot of 60s/70s "classics".

Dust Bunny Queen said...

I enjoyed Close Encounters, but then....I'm a big Sci-Fi fan, so you probably can't judge by what kind of movies "I" like :-P

William said...

Which is more subversive of romantic values: the failure of Al Gore's marriage or the continued success of the Clinton marriage?

William said...

Any possibility that this guy is a clitoral symbol? Clitoral symbols are very subtle.

MacMacConnell said...

I've never seen "Yellow Submarine" or "Close encounter", tried to but got bored, walked out. I've walked out of very few movies. Christ, I even managed to sit though "Pink Flamingos".

"Love Story" is a hokey film, but it's worth the cars, clothing and mostly Ali. Same goes for "Goodbye Columbus".

Jim said...

No. Controlling. Legal. Authoritah.

tcrosse said...

'Love Story' pissed me off at the time. People were getting all weepy about a pretty girl dying a movie death, while guys were getting their shit shot away in Viet Nam.