Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal were the Angelina and Brad of their day

“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.”

Weak and mean. That was Ryan.

These days he doesn’t talk to any of his kids except for Redmond, whom he visits in jail. “I was in touch with them for years, and I was a mess. I’m not in touch with them now, and I’ve never been happier,” he says, giving me a belligerent glare.

When I ask if he’s sorry he had children, he nods. “A couple of them I would take back,” he says.

I was in 7th grade the first time I noticed Ryan and I was in lust. I saw 'The Main Event' in the theater and he was hot. Too bad he has always been such an asshole.

Ryan O'Neal was so good looking back in the day but as the years went on he turned into a self indulgent slob. I'm not quite sure what Farrah saw in him other than they had a son together who has had a very troubled life.

Ryan O'Neal back in his heyday.

R4 There's your man in R6 Enjoy.

Ryan was an asshole to his "bestfriend" Lee (Majors), who had asked Ryan to "take care of Farrah" while he was away filming. The rest is history.

r6 that looks like it could be from The Main Event

oops I posted that before I saw the comment at r7. YAAAAAS he was hot back then

He was a homophobe too. He wanted a homophobic scene inserted into Barry Lyndon. He always thought he was some macho he-man, but he was just a mean drunk and junkie.

7 years earlier in 1972, Ryan trying to remove his bowtie and thus his tux shirt in "Whats Up Doc?" aroused quite a number of us gaylings.

The fairest of them all - the beautiful Farrah Fawcett. That hair!

The Main Event - Ryan. R12

I actually think this comparison works in a way if you reverse the sexes.

Emotionally damaged, substance abuse issues, personality disorder, star status on the decline in the industry after initial successes....Ryan & Angelina.

Stunningly gorgeous, raised with traditional family values, becomes a Sex symbol with one breakout role, married to popular TV star, earns acclaim in industry by their genuineness & range of roles. Farrah & Brad.

Very interesting OP! The comparisons keep adding up too. The dysfunctional family dynamics of Angie & her actor father,Jon Voight is similar to Ryan's relationship with Tatum.

Also, Brad & Jen's marriage coming apart after Angelina appears, to Farrah & Lee's breakup involving their friend, Ryan.

Hopefully Brad will be able to overcome all Angie's spiraling craziness & manipulative behavior in less than 30 yrs time.

The Vanity Fair article was bullshit. Farrah and Ryan had not been together all that time. She pretended to be reconciling with him for her lame reality show, but she was actually in a relationship with an old boyfriend from Texas.

R17 Vanity Fair is a pretentious publication with little literary merit IMO. The recent article & cover they did with Angelina, and prior issues featuring Kim Kartrashian reveal little journalistic integrity.

She never was as pretty once she changed her hair, that fluffy feathered mane just made her looks.

I want to comfort Redmond with my mouth.

Poor Redmond really grew up to be quite hideous.

R21 But, hot in a hideous "my mother was Farrah Fawcett" kind of way. I bet he has a nice ginger cock.

no they were not

Cleaned up Red. Hot as fuck. Damaged, too, which is only hotter.

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Are there any hot couples of the present day? Or is this a thing of the past?

Wait, I though they were the Taylor/Burton of their day?

Brad Pittis a dumb fuck, there are rumors his married summer fling is pregnant.

Lee Majors was a well-known homosexual

Brad and Angelina is a combination of Elizabeth/Richard Burton, Woody Allen/Mia Farrow and a dash of Joan Crawford and one of her ex husbands.

Let us know about this is as Angelina has a 30 year year butthole cancer proscription that she wields like a battle axe against all others.

I can't unsee that right-side elder photo of Ryan.

And Ryan and Tatum were the Joan and Christina of their day.

O'Neal was at his hottest in "What's Up, Doc?". I absolutely acknowledge that. However...

I prefer Redford. He isn't a drug addicted fucking waste of life, and has actually done constructive things with his money, fame, and influence.

R25 Current Redmond O'Neal would be welcomed with wide open legs at Triga or Treasure Island.