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Title: Most Disturbing Thing You Will Read Today
Post by: tekla on August 03, 2009, 10:37:54 AM
Post by: tekla on August 03, 2009, 10:37:54 AM
From the upcoming Vanity Fair Profile of Ryan O'Neil
While it's clear that O'Neal is no angel, he's at least willing to cop to his own flaws. At one point, he describes himself as "a hopeless father" and offers as evidence this anecdote from Fawcett's funeral:
"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."
"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."
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/farrah-fawcett-leslie-bennetts.html (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/farrah-fawcett-leslie-bennetts.html)
While it's clear that O'Neal is no angel, he's at least willing to cop to his own flaws. At one point, he describes himself as "a hopeless father" and offers as evidence this anecdote from Fawcett's funeral:
"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."
"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."
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/farrah-fawcett-leslie-bennetts.html (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/farrah-fawcett-leslie-bennetts.html)
Title: Re: Most Disturbing Thing You Will Read Today
Post by: finewine on August 03, 2009, 10:42:43 AM
Post by: finewine on August 03, 2009, 10:42:43 AM
There's a dark corner of my sense of humour that's tickled by that!
Title: Re: Most Disturbing Thing You Will Read Today
Post by: tekla on August 03, 2009, 10:44:41 AM
Post by: tekla on August 03, 2009, 10:44:41 AM
Hitting on your own daughter? At your wife's and her mom's funeral. That's pretty low.
Title: Re: Most Disturbing Thing You Will Read Today
Post by: finewine on August 03, 2009, 11:03:15 AM
Post by: finewine on August 03, 2009, 11:03:15 AM
Oh yes, of course...but I can abstract the scenario and appreciate the tasteless humour in it. It is rather Peter Griffin-esque!