This is everywhere today and now that includes Slog: Leslie Bennetts’ creepy Vanity Fair profile of Ryan O’Neal, featuring O’Neal’s soon-to-be-legendary reminiscence of Farrah 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.
What the hell is wrong with everyone everywhere?
Tatum’s autobiog explains why her father is so weird: he’s a former junkie and completely detached from reality. I’m pretty sure he says the word “daughter” but can’t make the mental connection.
And people say Mickey Rourke is screwed up.
Be comforted, David. “Everyone everywhere” is not the same as a family of fallen stars in Malibu.
Huh. I can totally see my dad doing that to me.
Now I need a drink.
EWWWWWWWWW!
V.C. Andrews couldn’t write anything that good.
Nah, that story isn’t “everywhere today.” This one, however, is:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa…
“Incest” from Parker Brothers: a game the whole family can enjoy!!
I can’t imagine why anyone would be walking around in a state of shock after someone important to them died …
Oh, wait, I can.
Seriously, this is not news.
Not just shock—HORNY shock.
Heck, what’s wrong with that? They sound like a couple of “family values” Republicans.
Allow me to add to the storyline here.
Last night I heard Dr. Drew on Loveline say that most likely Farrah’s “rectal cancer” was most likely caused by the HPV virus.
Mull that one over for a while and try not to cringe.
One too many “most likely”s. Sorry.
Oh, whatever. I sort of appreciate the lack of drama in how Tatum dealt with it. As someone from an abnormal background, I can say that I get tired of everyone freaking out all the time whenever one of my drug-addled relatives shows up for a social event. If you come from a family of freaks, either you own it and just let people figure it out for themselves or you tell everyone you’re an orphan — but having to explain and apologize every time someone close to you does something weird for the rest of your life is just too much to ask from anyone.
@9 – that’s way more common than you’d think. Funerals do that to you.
Tacomagirl, Dr. Drew has been waging a campaign against anal sex for years now. I don’t think he has any credibility on the issue. Maybe that’s where she got her cancer, maybe it isn’t, and Dr. Drew is not only speculating on a case he knows nothing about, since he is not Fawcett’s doctor and had never examined her, but has absolutely no business discussing the medical problems of other people without their consent. HIPAA, baby, it’s the law. Drew is entertaining on Celebrity Rehab, but as doctors go, he’s pure Hollywood.
I remember a time in my childhood (late 90’s) when Dr. Drew seemed to give common sense advise on all kinds of sexual practices. I give credit to Loveline for helping make me a responsible teen and an open-minded adult concerning sexuality.
Maybe I just don’t remember how conservative he’s always been because he was the most liberal voice I had then, but can anyone else remember when he gave good advise to kinky people?
as i see it, the biggest problem is his need to share that story with anyone anywhere anytime ever.
“Will in Seattle 8
I can’t imagine why anyone would be walking around in a state of shock after someone important to them died …
Oh, wait, I can.
Seriously, this is not news. “
Not news, but still gross.
” @9 – that’s way more common than you’d think. Funerals do that to you”
They don’t usually have the grieving parties trying to take home their daughters as a “joke”, though.
I’ve seen people drive their cars into stop signs, gymasts trip and fall, and many other things – you can think you know what grief is like, but quite obviously you have no idea.
People are, at the very least, numb, disoriented, and very out of it. Their reactions are off, and if you know them try to make sure they don’t do too many unusual and/or dangerous things, cause their judgement centers are usally not working correctly.
“I’ve seen people drive their cars into stop signs, gymasts trip and fall, and many other things – you can think you know what grief is like, but quite obviously you have no idea.
People are, at the very least, numb, disoriented, and very out of it. Their reactions are off, and if you know them try to make sure they don’t do too many unusual and/or dangerous things, cause their judgement centers are usally not working correctly.”
Yep, none of what you’ve mentioned involves a sustained madness and bragging about it repeatedly to the press.
To quote Tatum-
“When Vanity Fair asked Tatum about it, she sighed, “That’s our relationship in a nutshell. You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”
Tatum’s book Paper Lies tells a number of similary unflattering stories about her dad’s sleazy mannerisms, in 2007 he got arrested for assaulting his son, and in 2008 he got arrested doing meth with his son.
You really seem to be going out of your way to defend this, it’s confusing. And yes, I’ve had a parent and family die slowly and painfully.