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Then I went to school in Switzerland. I got there because my mother was a great conartist...This was a school for extremely wealthy and professionally spoiled children...I just wanted to get loaded and play pinball machines. Essentially I was the imported American sheep dog for these little lambs, these girls. I mean it...It was my job to chase guys away and yell profanities, like "I'll get your mother for this!" and crap like that. Until I realized that it was more profitable the other way. I mean one of the girls would say, "Listen...

Author: By Jack Trumpbour, | Title: Hurray for the Hasty | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ryan's Daughter | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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