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[gidgetgh]

Has died at the age of 82.

[Alsace Gal]

[tansy]

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

Ryan O'Neal was a good looking man.  

[I am still oxox]

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

[gidgetgh]

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@I am still oxox wrote:

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

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@I am still oxox - I cried SO hard.

[deepwaterdotter]

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@tansy wrote:

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

Ryan O'Neal was a good looking man.  

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And he had relationships with some beautiful women.

[Puzzle Piece]

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

[Oznell]

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.  

[luvzchiz]

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

RIP. Ryan O'Neal. 

[Shelbelle]

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