And so, farewell, then Mr Ryan O'Neal - star of one of my all-time fave films What's Up Doc? (and one of my most loathed, Love Story), dad to Tatum (with whom he co-starred in Paper Moon), and one half of one of the most tumultuous relationships since the Taylor-Burtons, with Farrah Fawcett.
His career never really went anywhere; his domestic life and family bust-ups made more column inches than his movies - but we still have that smile to look back on...
RIP, Ryan O'Neal (20th April 1941 – 8th December 2023)
So glad I'm not alone in my feelings about Love Story. The film made me absolutely insane.
ReplyDeleteAli McGraw was so bad in it, I was willing her to die. Jx
DeleteI don't know why but I've always wanted to like Ali McGraw... However, some of her acting turns have been god-awful.
DeleteShe falls into a "certain category" of actresses who are like nails on a blackboard to me - like Mia Farrow, Jacqueline Bisset and Susannah York, whose presence in a film immediately spoils it for me (although Miss York was in The Killing of Sister George, which is a fantastic movie, despite her). Jx
DeletePaper Moon was good. Others? meahnhh...
ReplyDeleteOh, What's Up Doc|? still makes me laugh, even now - Madeline Kahn was superb, and it remains one of MegaBabs' finest screen moments! Jx
DeleteAh, he did look cute in his pyjamas in What's Up Doc? - love that film! Other than that, I don't remember Mr O'Neal in anything else except for Bones (although I've just looked at his wiki page and discovered that I must have seen him in Chances Are and Desperate Housewives).
ReplyDeleteAs I said, after his initial superstardom in the 1970s, his career went downhill and was very patchy. Jx
DeleteWasn't he a teenage boyfriend of Mia Farrow in tv "Peyton Place"? Or am I confused.Again!
DeleteI was too young to ever watch Peyton Place (although I think my mother was probably a fan) - but I believe that both Mia Farrow and Ali McGraw were in it. Jx
DeleteGood heavens, he certainly was pretty.
ReplyDeleteWasn't he just?...
Delete...and circumcised (judging by that third pic)! Jx
Warren Beatty - “You're So Vain."
ReplyDeleteBut if I looked like him then I think I would be too and spend all day looking at myself in the mirror.
He was good looking and charming who cares about acting.
RIP
My thoughts exactly. Jx
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