Ryan O'Neal Fails To Recognize Paper Moon Co-Star/Daughter At Funeral
Well, this tidbit buried in the Vanity Fair cover story about Farrah Fawcett -- an anecdote recounted by Ryan O'Neal in an attempt at illustrating what "a hopeless father" he is -- was enough to make me recoil in horror:
"I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me," Ryan told me. "I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me - Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."
They asked Tatum to respond:
"That's our relationship in a nutshell," Tatum said when I asked her about it. "You make of it what you will." She sighed. "It had been a few years since we'd seen each other, and he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant."
OK. I got nothing. Time to send over a recent headshot accompanied by a 1-800 Flowers "Forget Me Not, Dad" bouquet? Also, Ryan should play a flash-forward Thomas Jane on Hung.
· Leslie Bennetts on Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal: "Beautiful People, Ugly Choices" [Vanity Fair]
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This is so depressing it makes me want to move back to the midwest. At least when fathers hit on daughters there, it's intentional.
Jesus, that story was creepy.
Beyond the creeps-per-minute of
- he's hitting on someone at. the. funeral.
- he's hitting one someone at. the. hearse.
- that someone is. his. daughter.
There's still the tragic element of
- Whose best opening line is, "You have a drink on you? You have a car?"
Thanks for voicing all the things I was too icked-out to say.
I hear that's similar to how Woody Allen hooked up with his wife. Heyo!
And he wonders why all his kids are drug addicts.
maybe this was really his way of criticizing her for all that plastic surgery.
"Sweetie, didn't we once do a line together off Grace Jones's clavicle at Studio 54?"
No sorry Tatum, he's not a bon vivant. He's a deviant.
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Call me old fashioned, but I only date people after I've confirmed they have a drink, a car, and a 401K.
It's Tatum's fault for seeming all...Swedish. (?)
ick & gross...he's like permanent tongue fur