Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson Key shows Love Story every year, so that you can ogle the Harvard settings and release all that pent-up aggression by jeering at former Yale professor Erich Segal's heart-burning drivel. You can also think about the decay of Ali McGraw's and Ryan O'Neal's careers since then--proof, I guess, that there is a God. Last year, as Ryan whined, "Love--(beat)--means never having to say you're sorry," the film got caught in the projector and a big brown blotch quickly bubbled over his face, smote, perhaps, by that great Film Critic...
...looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they are asked to do, these surprising children and their adventurous directors are showing the camera new ways to look at the young...
...first lesson Ryan learns from cancer is how quickly the very word alienates the victim from ordinary life. One pair of friends, when told, sink into embarrassed silence, making Ryan feel that he has committed "some unpardonable gaffe." Colleagues and publishers cannot be trusted: "Somebody's bound to say," he notes, " 'Well, we really can't ask Ryan to do this article or count on him to finish this book, because the poor bastard's got cancer.' " Later on, there are the unbearable pain and disfiguring side effects of powerful drugs. Cushing's syndrome...
There is an omnipresent temptation to succumb: "The mathematics of self-pity can be raised to infinity." Instead, although convinced from the beginning that his disease is fatal, Ryan sets out with reportorial objectivity to give battle and to keep accounts. He travels from his Connecticut home to Europe and the West Coast in search of the latest treatments and carefully monitors his progress...
Tension and tears are constant. But there are moments of triumph as well: the completion of A Bridge Too Far, published two months before the author's death; the night Ryan conducts the orchestra in a local production of Finian's Rainbow star ring his daughter Vicki...