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Ryan O’Neal

gidgetgh — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:01:32 GMT

Has died at the age of 82.

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Alsace Gal — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:05:25 GMT

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tansy — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:05:55 GMT

It seems like so many well-known people are dying lately.

Ryan O'Neal was a good looking man.

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I am still oxox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:15:18 GMT

I was just logging on to say the same thing, Love Story is still one of my favorite movies

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gidgetgh — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:15:43 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
I was just logging on to say the same thing, Love Story is still one of my favorite movies

@I am still oxox - I cried SO hard.

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:18:42 GMT

@tansy wrote:
It seems like so many well-known people are dying lately.

Ryan O'Neal was a good looking man.

And he had relationships with some beautiful women.

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Puzzle Piece — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:35:17 GMT

Sorry to learn of this. I was never a fan but enjoyed his work in "Love Story" and "Barry Lyndon".

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Oznell — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:45:30 GMT

Loved him especially in two acclaimed films. In "Paper Moon" with Tatum:

He was so well cast in that. Sort of a Depression-era flim-flam man, flighty, a genial con, but good-hearted underneath. Didn't know how to be a Dad to his little girl, until they took off on an uproarious journey across the Midwest, a few steps ahead of the law... Madeline Kahn was hilarious in that too.

And "What's Up, Doc" with Streisand--

Hysterical, screwball-type comedy. This time, he was playing a quiet, meek, professorial type, with a bossy fiancee ( Madeline Kahn again, hugely funny as usual). But Barbra, who is a certified "kook" in this, makes a play for him and scrambles all his assumptions. They had fantastic chemistry together, and seemed to have a blast with their roles.

He was from a show biz family, through and through, and one feels that he never quite reached his potential as an actor. Gifted in comedy.

I just read what his broken-hearted son Patrick ( his one child with second wife Leigh Taylor-Young) had to say. How he adored his father! It's a sweet, sweet tribute from a loving son.

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luvzchiz — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:54:13 GMT

I know I'm getting old when I am familiar with those who recently passed away.

RIP. Ryan O'Neal.

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Shelbelle — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:57:31 GMT

He and Farrah will be together again, he will always be Rodney Harrington to me !!! I know he did have Leukemia several years ago.

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Bri369 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:57:39 GMT

He never got over losing Farrah. 😥

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LTT1 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:06:47 GMT

@gidgetgh @Bri369 @Shelbelle @luvzchiz @Oznell

"Love means never having so say you're sorry"

💔

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Ronettes — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:10:50 GMT

@Oznell

'Paper Moon' and 'What's Up Doc', two of my favorites as well!

He was wonderful in 'Paper Moon' with Tatum, who stole every scene.

He will be missed. RIP

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LTT1 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:13:13 GMT

@gidgetgh @Ronettes @Bri369 @Shelbelle @luvzchiz

I wanted to be Ali Macgraw SO VERY BADLY!

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AZfem — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:25:50 GMT

@Oznell Agree with you completely on both "What's up Doc" & "Paper Moon". " What's up Doc" is the funniest, wittiest movie & the car chase with the glass pane is hysterical. Everyone is so good in that movie with a great compliment of co-starring character actors.

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tansy — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:28:13 GMT

I remember watching him in the tv version of Peyton Place.

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On It — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:30:18 GMT

I remember "Love Story" well, but to me he was his best as Temperance Brennan's father on "Bones."

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just bee — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:32:30 GMT

Godspeed.

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Luvitorleaveit1 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:47:31 GMT

82!!!! I guess I am getting old as well. I thought he was so handsome.

RIP

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proudlyfromNJ — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:58:29 GMT

Barbra Streisand posted on her Instagram how sad she was as he was funny and charming and they made a couple of movies together.