Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Five Evenings. Now Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, 44, is an author acclaimed for her autobiography, published in a literary monthly, about growing up in war-torn Kharkov. The muse moved her while she and film friends watched Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death.' They told me to write it all down." The result: My Adult Childhood, a mosaic of young life under Nazi occupation...
...career like a superficially canned guided tour. We can grasp Barnum's relish for humbuggery (There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute), but not the calm, staunch loyalty his wife (Glenn Close) displays even during his dalliance with "the Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind (Marianne Tatum...
...They Call Me Assassin, Tatum with Kushner
Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal, the stars of Little Darlings, have been among the best child actors of their generation, but now they are growing up. Like the Shirley Temples and Margaret O'Briens before them, they have a difficult passage ahead. For some child actors, aging can be a positive process: youthful skills blossom into full-fledged creative maturity. Others are not so fortunate. Aging can also rob child actors of their spontaneity and innocence; yesterday's young performers can all too easily become the mannered actors of tomorrow...
Perhaps. But even if Tatum is the only savage-minded safety in professional football-and that seems dubious-his case is complex enough to merit consideration. For while his "confessions" may be tasteless and disturbing, he tempers them with a sort of pathetic self-pity ("I am not an assassin, but rather a human being with a deep compassion for little children"). He also tells of a ghetto boyhood in Passaic, N.J., and football as his only way out. At every stage of his career, Tatum says, he has been judged mostly by how hard he hits, first...