Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert Ryan, 63, ruggedly good-looking actor with a talent for violent roles; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Among Ryan's best performances in a screen career that spanned 30 years and some 90 films: the aging, failing prizefighter in The Set-Up (1949) and an anti-Semitic Marine in Crossfire (1947). Onstage he scored more recent triumphs in a Broadway revival of The Front Page (1969), in which he played the cynical managing editor, Walter Burns, and as the father in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
Bogdanovich rescues you from the murky waters of loss with the comedy of a rambunctious ten-year-old running devious circles around a man old enough to be her father. The funniest parts of the film are the con-games they play--Ryan double talking to confuse the dupe, Tatum crying to win his sympathies...
...never clear if Tatum is Ryan's daughter in the film -- she comes into his care after her mother's funeral -- and it doesn't really matter. Along with the audience, he falls under the spell of her raspy voice, impish deceit, and winsome pugface...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...