Scott for “Patton” (who famously refused the award). And the movie’s line “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” became iconic, with O’Neal and Streisand making fun of it at the end of “What’s Up Doc?” when she says it to him and he replies, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”īut America had fallen in love with Ryan O’Neal after “Love Story.” He got a Best Actor nomination at the Oscars, losing to George C. Francis Lai’s “Theme from ‘Love Story,'” also known as “Where Do I Begin?” was instant Andy Williams fodder. It’s a fascinating snapshot of what non-New Hollywood box office smashes could be like at that time, a formulaic romance meant to break viewers’ hearts. “Love Story” was the number one box-office smash of 1970, raking in $50 million in domestic theater rentals. I don’t want to go back to those conventions.” For his part, Evans told the Los Angeles Times he felt that the Barrett role was “a Cary Grant role - a handsome leading man with lots of emotions.” O’Neal was less certain of the film’s potential success, telling the LA Times, “I hope the young people like it. Jon Voight and Beau Bridges had already turned down the role of Oliver Barrett IV, an East Coast old money scion at Harvard who falls in love with a working class Radcliffe student played by Ali MacGraw, then married to the film’s producer, Robert Evans. He landed his first lead role in a film with 1969’s “The Big Bounce.” The next year he’d hit superstardom.ġ970 was the year “Love Story” was unleashed on the world. Several of its stars used the success of “Peyton Place” to kick-start their own film careers and O’Neal was no exception. He married his costar Leigh Taylor-Young in 1969, following a previous marriage to actress Joanna Moore. It was a patchwork of guest parts, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”-style from there, until he landed his ongoing role in ABC’s epochal half-hour primetime soap, “Peyton Place,” opposite Dorothy Malone, Mia Farrow, and Barbara Perkins. As a young man he had aspirations of being a boxer, experiences that would inform his 1979 Barbra Streisand team-up “The Main Event.” After some stand-in and stuntman work on productions in Germany, where his parents had moved the family in the late ’50s, O’Neal decided to pursue acting in Hollywood, making his first TV appearance in an episode of “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in 1960. O’Neal was born Apin Los Angeles, where he’d go on to attend University High School. If that statement reads a bit pugnacious, it sums up the contentiousness in which O’Neal’s life was sometimes embroiled. “My dad was 82, and lived a kick ass life.” If you go that route, I recommend you take a good look in the mirror first. If you choose to talk shit about my dad, even though you have no clue what you are talking about, you will get called out. I will not be deterred from outside voices that say negative things. “I will share my father’s legacy forever. “Those same people are heartbroken today and will be for a long time.” “Ryan was a very generous man who has always been there to help his loved ones for decade upon decade,” his son Patrick wrote in a statement on Instagram. Producer Metro Boomin Says ‘Spider-Verse’ Song ‘Am I Dreaming’ Started with a ‘Grand Champion’ Sound
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