Nora Ephron: Don’t Judge Ryan O’Neal for Hitting on His Daughter at Farrah’s Funeral
by Big Hollywood
Hollywood Values
From the director of “Julie & Julia” over at HuffPo:
I understand that Ryan O’Neal has confessed, in the current edition of Vanity Fair, that he recently failed to recognize his own daughter Tatum at a funeral and accidentally made a pass at her.
Everyone is very judgmental about this, but I just want to say that I sympathize. …
As it happens, Ryan O’Neal had not seen his daughter Tatum in years. He thought she was a Swedish person. I completely understand. … So who’s to judge? Not me.
The woman Ryan O’Neal spent over a decade with and had a child with dies after a long agonizing bout of cancer, he hits on some “Swedish person” at the funeral, and that’s all fine…
What would be wrong is judging that kind of behavior.
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Yeah, but did he score?
Good gawd woman…..are you that desperate for man?
The actress who plays Julia's sister in the movie did a Q & A where she states that there was justifiably a lot of Anti-Americanism in France after WW2. These people live on a different planet.
Also, the actor who plays Amy Adams husband stated that he got the role because he's "played a Republican before." How do you play a Republican?
I've got to pull my punches here and mention this is the least interesting post I've ever encountered at BH. No biggie, though.
Okay…I realize she's married but my creep meter is still maxed out.
Definitely a strange broad.
I used to work for Nora Ephron who was one of the most cruel and dehumanizing people I have ever encountered. She has little respect for others and is known to wear brown lipstick in order to get her projects made.
Kinda lost me on this one. Seems like such a nonevent. Sure it casts a pall over re-watching 'Paper Moon' (which is always difficult given the stories that have leaked for ages about the tempestuous father/daughter relationship) but seriously, a narcissistic over-the-hill playboy hitting on a woman he doesn't recognize … big deal. They're Hollywood stars. They have no soul.
Stand and walk straight and speak grammatically correct American English.
he's not a Republican, but he plays one on TV
Wow! I understand even more how this was one messed up family. I wonder if Ryan was able to get her phone # after that so he could stay in contact with her more frequently? Nora, what is your husband up to that you are this compassionate? Never mind I do not want to know.
How to play a republican in hollywood means you're:
a repressed homosexual
with a drinking problem
who beats his wife/kids
has framed pictures of Nixon in the house
In Liberal speak not judging translates into don't tell the Truth about Me and I won't tell any Lies about You.
nora, you're a moron!
All of this is so wrong on so many levels- a man not recognizing his own daughter (what paternal love! what fatherly devotion!), hitting on a woman he could father, hitting on a woman at his "love's" funereal (!!!!???!!), plus this moron thinking, well, since he thought she was SWEDISH (!!!), we shouldn't be judgemental! Well, there are really no words…..
"He thought she was a Swedish person."
Yeah, we used to call them Swedes.
"He thought she was a Swedish person."
The name is Persson. Inga Persson.
"He thought she was a Swedish person."
The name is Persson. Inga Persson.
I guess O'Neal couldn't get a date for the funeral, went stag and hoped to pick up an easy chick to take to the post-funeral party. The fact that the funeral was for his commonlaw wife didn't faze him a bit. Oh so Hollywood.
I trust the author is being facetious……
Oh, how foolish of me, love is never having to say your aLiberal
/fixed it
/sarc
Oh, how foolish of me, love is never having to say your a Liberal
/fixed it
/sarc
I hope not
Ryan O'Neal(and his daughter) were great in Paper Moon.
I'd rather just remember them for that and forget this recent nonsense.
Wait 8 months and look for a *lobster child*…that's the "empirical method"…
I listened to some of the commentary on Sleepless in Seattle by Nora and Delia Ephron. I learned that just about the only direction Meg Ryan was given was that her character, Annie, was a "Republican who'd never had an 0rg4sm."
or a framed autographed R.W.R. pix…for the more *contemporary* look…
I thought I was one of only two people that ever saw "Barry Lyndon"…with you that makes three.
she was thinking about meatballs and talking about people, a rather tough bit of mental gymnastics…
is she a flight attendent? is she hot? ……..sorry, never mind.
I saw it. O'Neal was the worst thing about it.
My date watched the movie and I attempted to *watch* her…missed both if memory serves me…
Okay then…how about judging him for his consistency of being an A-Hole thug over the decades (ask his kids about that), not to mention his consistently bad acting over same…
I smell a new reality show. How very… quaint.
You give your trust over too easily.
nora ephron was stupid enough to have married Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, so it shouldn't be any surprise she doesn't think there is much wrong with Ryan O'Neil.
Well, I totally see Nora's point. It was completely OK because he thought Tatum was a Swede. That is the one and only acceptable excuse for hitting on another woman at your lover's funeral. A Swede people! So judgmental. Get with the program.
We called them stewardesses back then. It was a different time.
This would almost be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic and disgusting.
I say, good post. Shine the light on these rats and let everyone see them for what they are.
oh ya..I forgot that…the ol' *coffee, tea or me* era…
Hey Ryan, you just recruited 299 more Islamic fanatics to become terrorists. And 2,999 to move to Hollyweird for the lifestyle.
You know, its bad enough that O'Neal did such a bizarre and scummy thing, but to ADMIT it to anyone afterward, especially a magazine?
That is even more creepy.
No wonder Farrah (a) left nothing for Ryan in her will and (b) refused to marry him countless times… even on her death bed. Smart lady.
Can I judge Nora Ephron on her writing and directing of the "Bewitched" movie?
I about spluttered some really excellent scotch reading that. . .somehow I missed it. I clearly don't keep up with what's important. Steve TM asked the most pertinent question. And Justa's correct about Ms. Ephron.
I don't know, TJ, some of those incessant Star Trek posts got kinda tedius.
Who cares what Nora Ephron thinks??? She must be used to being disrespected by men!
To think Farrah gave up Lee Majors for this loser…
Not sure about the smart part. She procreated with this cretin with full knowledge of what kind of father he was. That says something about her gray matter.
Right. I hope a hot swedish chick shows up at my wife's funeral.
Because I'll need some comforting…
Hey, they can't all be winners, can they. Mostly, I find the quality of the writing here excellent.
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LoL. I've been on those Kind of Dates Thanks for the Laugh.
Come on people, let's not judge this man! He's only taken to heart the true theme of “Wedding Crashers.” And isn't contemporary Hollywood the best guide for what is acceptable in society? Just kidding…
I Hear Ya those Arm Puncher's can be Murder. Protect Yourself at All Times Brother and Good Luck.
Nora…you dope….your position is just plain stupid. Just stupid.
Wasn't that actually done in the "Wedding Crashers?"
Nora, would you be that forgiving if Ryan was a pro Bush conservative? Oh, how foolish of me, love is never having to say your sorry!
Yeah don't judge Ryan O'Neal for hitting on his daughter. Judge him for the fact that he supplied his kids at young ages all the cocaine they would want. Judge him for bringing his kids to wild sex parties when they were 12. Ohh wait Nora is right we should not judge him for that. I'm sorry. If you really want to judge a person you should judge them by how they raised their kids and how the kids turned out. One killed a person with a boat, one is on drugs and messed up like Dad and then there is Tatum ONeal. Why she is just a wealth of wonderful stories about growing up with Dad.
Ryan O'Neal made only one great movie and the character was just like him. Barry Lyndon.
It's made worse by the fact that the media played up his and Farrah's "long-lasting love" right up to the day she died. He had a child with this woman, she dies, and at her funeral hits on a woman young enough to be his daughter and – surprise! – it is his daughter. I don't care how long its been since you've seen her, how out of it do you have to be not to recognize your own daughter. Especially one still famous enough to have her face pop up on TV on a regular basis, so that you really have no excuse for not recognizing her.
Yeah. And these are the people who regularly judge "middle America" for being a bunch of inbred hicks. Guess "hillbillies" aren't the only ones who have trouble keeping their hands off their daughters…
I would like to know what Tatum did. Hopefully she slapped the taste out of his mouth.
I have never hit on a family member during a funeral, and I'm from Kentucky. Good going Ryan, you just been made into a Jeff Foxworthy joke.
"If you hit on your own estranged daughter at your common law wife's funeral, you might be Ryan O'Neal!"
Sounds pretty Hollywood to me. Self-involved actor mourns the passing of the woman he lived with and impregnated by mistakenly propositioning his own daughter at the funeral. Oh, well at least he didn't assault any of his children or do meth with them
Oh, he did? Well, what's so wrong about that?
There's your Hollywood value system.
I've never heard anything good about this Bum . I did a reading with his Daughter a few years back not very solid as a person but she was nice she was O.K.. I had never met her before but I knew who she was and her own Father didn't. Only the Hollyweird Types would believe that Fairytale. Ryan O'Neal is what he is. Where I come from their called..and Excuse My French Ladies No Disrespect Intended………Scumbags
Nora Ephron's claim to fame is that she married one of the Watergate "journalists", divorced the idiot and that in turn springboarded her to hanging around some of the "fraternity" of semi-intellectual types in the DC beltway and New York. This is a woman who couldn't open up a bottle of water without first reading the instructions on how to unscrew the cap. Plus, she's a pseudo Jew who just happens to have a soft spot for the "palestinians" and their plight. Call 'em like I see them.
You know, back in the 1970s – which was the era when people knew who Ryan O´Neal was – they had these Swedish movies showing the amorous adventures of Swedish flight attendants. No doubt Ryan´s view of Swedish mores was heavily conditioned by these cultural artefacts.
I didn't know that your wife's funeral was a good place to try and score on your daughter?
Sounds like a Woody Allan movie to me.
Uhhh…it was at his great love's funeral. Seems beyond tacky.
It does call to mind one of my favorite jokes, though. I'll do the short version.
There's an old gentlemen who worked his entire life in the New York garment industry, sitting by his wife's death bed. She tells the old fella that after she's gone she wants him to be happy. To find someone nice, and to give his new girlfriend the beautiful mink coat that she got for their 50th wedding anniversary. The old guy shakes his head and says, "No, that I can never do. You're a 16, she's an 8."
ya, oh well ;-0…I saw her years later and the middle and bottom raced past the nice *top*, I like the tall slender ones like the one getting ready to punch me in the arm if I don't log off soon.
"Hollywood is a moral sinkhole."
– Herman Wouk, "The Winds of War."
Believe me when I tell you Jonny . We Know What They Are.
That is some effed up stuff there. O'Neal made a pass at his own daughter because he didn't recognize her? I'm sorry, but that is the funniest thing I've heard all week. That needs to end up in a script somewhere.
LOL!
i initially thought ryan was trying to improve his life by standing by farrah while she was ill however for him to be drunk and hitting on someone (even if it was not his daughter) before farrah was even cold in her grave shows how low he really is. he has been a pitiful example of a man for redman – no wonder he has ended up in jail.
Am I the only one that thinks this might just be a pathetic ploy for some cheap publicity? After all, Ryan was cheated out of his public grief when the King of Pop selfishly stoled his for-all-the-world-to-see anguished heartache by croaking on the same day as O'Neal's soul mate.
He sounds like a model father. It really must be nice to be a liberal, anything goes and nobody can judge. You can even hit on your daughter at the funeral for your long-time lover and it is ok. I wonder sometimes if there is in fact a parallel universe.
Gary Sinise's character in CSI has one, and he nailed Claire Forlani (no dog, she). . .also is a valuable mentor to his stepson and. . .yeah…..
I'll be in my bunk. :p
*MissQuinn*
Ahhhh… Good point. He lost out on all his publicity when MJ died. What a pathetic person he must be on the inside.
That's what Hollyweird is a Parallel Universe.
But – but – but —— you don't understand! Liberals can not possibly judge anyone's lack of morals. If they did that, they'd have to admit that one has to have them in the first place. No effing way, hon. It's not about right and wrong, it's about what makes you feel good. (Which means, if you want to 'feel' up your own daughter at your dead lover's funeral, than so be it.)
Unfortunately, Nora Ephron will probably write it and make the protagonist scumbag the hero!
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You betcha!! This is one of my favorite sites and I commend Andrew Breitbart for recognizing and then filling the huge vacuum that existed in the conservative world which resulted in Big Hollywood. The writing is top notch. I just meant sometimes the subjects don't alwayskeep my attention as others do…But that is true of anything in life, huh?
In a word, whatever.
Yeah,…. I judge him, I judge him a worthless creep with no soul or humanity. I'm too old fashioned for this age when I can read that, and be so repulsed. He clearly didn't love her, or he'd have shown her more respect at her funeral than this incredible display does.
A man can grieve in his own way, can not do it in public, but to be scopin out girls at his lovers funeral?
I judge him, and frankly, would expect the same if I behaved as miserably.
No, there were two great movies in which he participated. The other one was 'A Bridge Too Far' , based on Operation Market Garden in World War two.
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Well if Tatum is even halfway normal she had made quite an achievement in that family. I guess that "Malibu Colony" is a pretty whacked out place. Cocaine seems to be a common thread there.
I'm very interested to hear this. I just read a very cynical and patronizing blog by Nora regarding the song Susan Boyle sang that made her famous. She belittled "I Had a Dream" and had other negative things to say. It was on the Huffington Post. As comments are now closed on that particular blog, I can only say, "What's your beef, Nora?" I don't think "I had a Dream" is all that bad-and I was a classically trainined violinist! I wonder what standard she is holding musical theatre to, and what her actual musical knowledge, training and or education consists of.
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