"Then in 1971 she found a new interest so compelling that for more than two years she abandoned films. Bert Schneider was not the first man in Candy's life. Movie moguls, international bankers, oil sheikhs and Greek billionaires had pelted her with propositions—and proposals. Except for one heavy affair with Terry Melcher, a record producer who is also Doris Day's son, she had kept her fancy free. Tall, lean, Lincolnesque and leftist, Schneider is a daringly creative film producer (Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show), with a complex charm that Candy found irresistible. "I fell terribly, absolutely in love," she says, and Bert did too. "There had never been anyone like him in my life, and I can't imagine there ever will be. But it was hell as well as heaven. We tortured each other. Men say they love independence in their women, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. We broke up last year. I want very much to get together again, but so far whenever we've seen each other the agony starts all over."