Ryan O’Neal died - 82yo - 12/8/23 (theater, movie theater, actors)
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My sister and I notify each other of celebrity deaths by texting a 1-2 line obit. Today’s is “Ryan O’Neal went to see if it really is just a paper moon.”
I swear all of these deaths are making me feel even older than I am (70).
Back to the topic, I can remember when "Love Story" was THE movie for teenage girls. (Even though I thought that "love means never having to say you're sorry" line was about the most stupid line I ever heard!
I swear all of these deaths are making me feel even older than I am (70).
Back to the topic, I can remember when "Love Story" was THE movie for teenage girls. (Even though I thought that "love means never having to say you're sorry" line was about the most stupid line I ever heard!
It's one after the other in my age group 70s and over passing away. It does make me feel I need to make the most of each day, as the time is flying by now. RiP Ryan
It sounds as though he had been in declining health for awhile with his first cancer diagnoses in his early 60's. He was a gifted actor, I didn't realize that his son, Patrick, is a little younger than I am. Tatum is a little older.
I hope his kids are doing o.k.. And, yes, I agree with Jimrob1 that life is short. Live it.
I wasn’t born yet when the movie came out but it’s one of those movies where you would laugh at how corny the dialogue was but the fashion (on both leading actors.) was never, if ever, went out of style.
Every girl wants to look like Ali MacGraw at some point of her life.
Ryan O’Neal had one of those WASPY sensitive jocks faces but seemed like an egotistic insensitive Dad, at least that’s how it came across in Tatum’s book (borrowed it from library.) that he partied with underaged her and very young Melanie Griffith. A very complicated and odd relationship between father and daughter.
For some reason I thought he would have been older than 82.
News like this triggers flashbacks to 50+ years ago. I was an age 16 foreign exchange student in Chile in 1971, and remember a date-night to the movies with a same-age girl from the neighborhood. We saw Love Story at an old time movie theater in Valparaiso, Chile. Most seats were occupied by other teen couples, so Love Story had become an iconic "date movie" at least in 1970-1971. Lucky for me it was not dubbed in Spanish, the audio was the original English version with fairly good Spanish subtitles, however the subtitles often miss some of the original meaning that doesn't translate very well.
I once read a medical study that followed the same group of very fit people over the course of decades, doing annual tests of cognition and physical fitness and the results showed very small and predictable declines each year until the age of 80, at which point it was like everyone hit a wall and started declining 3 times as quickly. This seems to be especially pronounced for men.
I saw pictures of Chevy Chase, also 80, in a wheelchair the other day looking quite frail. He was still doing "Community" 10 years ago and seemed pretty spry.
Harrison Ford is 81 now and he's looking really old in the latest pictures. When the "The Force Awakens" started filming he was 70 and the only returning star that didn't have to undergo physical conditioning once he got to the set.
Time is a predator that stalks us our entire lives, to paraphrase a Star Trek character.
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