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Publicity posters liken her to Shirley Temple. Her perky performance in Paper Moon is being compared with the classic childhood performances of Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper. Still, such megapraise does not entirely please nine-year-old Tatum O'Neal. "It's not the funnest thing in the world being called a boy," she laments in her husky voice. It was not all that much fun making a movie either. "I thought you could make a movie in one day with maybe four hours of work, because you can see it in two hours," she reasoned. Instead...
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...
...night at the Reno Club he got a chance to sit in. He thought that he could play his saxophone as fast as Art Tatum played the piano, and began with a brief stratospheric flight that teased the ear. But he soon lost the key and then the beat. At that, the drummer's cymbal hurtled through the air, landing with a crash at his feet: in the customary jazz citation to a bad musician...
...Gorham, Kans., to shoot a new Peter Bogdanovich movie called Paper Moon, Ryan O'Neal carried on devotedly with his newest costar. That was only natural, since she is his nine-year-old daughter Tatum (by his first wife, Joanna Moore). The pair amused a group of school children by performing balancing tricks along a deserted railroad track, and when Tatum earned more applause than her father, O'Neal remarked, "I guess it's natural with her. Her mother was an actress and so was my mother. It's in the family." Asked...
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