I propose this as an on-going thread thread to note and discuss the passing of persons of note.
As a first submission: Ryan O'Neal at 82, peacefully at home.

I have an unforgettable (so far) memory from 1972, at a drive-in theatre in or near Asbury Park, NJ, while watching the movie "What's Up, Doc" in which Ryan plays against Barbra Streisand, and they finally become a couple at the end of the movie, in a final scene where she's followed him onto a plane and has a seat behind him.

He overhears her ostensibly talking to a seatmate, explaining to that seatmate, who has earphones on and is obviously watching a movie, that she, Barbra, is in love and is flying out to podunkville because the man she loves (Ryan) lives there and although they've gone through some trials and tribulations, they're finally going to be together and isn't love wonderful, and isn't it true that "Love means never having to say you're sorry"...?

Halfway through her discourse he's leaned his seat back and has turned to stare at her, so that when she reaches that final line, they've made eye contact and her eyes twinkle.

When she finishes the line, Ryan says, and I quote, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!"

Quirky things like that are the spice of life!


I know nothing else about the man or his work, but he'll live on in my mind, and now being dead, he can't ask for anything more.

Many years ago my wife dragged me to see this movie. Afterwards she gushed on and on about how romantic it was.

"love means never having to say you're sorry" till I finally said, "being sorry means never having to say I love You".

Sleeping on the couch is never a good time no matter how you poof up the cushions.

That was a quote from Ryan's earlier movie "Love Story". He was making fun of himself.

slskipper Wrote:
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> That was a quote from Ryan's
> earlier movie "Love Story".
> He was making fun of himself.


Oh!!  It was funny?

Thank ghawd I laughed my ass off!!

I remember him most from the movie Love Story.

She was young, beautiful, great legs and a dead ringer for Ali McGraw. She was also a young editor for Glamour Magazine, and did some modeling. Married, too. She knew what she had, and capitalized. She once wrote an article, "What It's Like To Look Like a Celebrity.
She's still going at 84, Dave. I had a huge crush on her.



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Love Story was so big when it came out. I can still remember the opening line -- "This is a story about a girl that died." Very maudlin stuff.

I was saddened by the passing of Robin Williams. Such comedic talent that we will hear no more.

John Candy also, and John Belushi. Two more powerhouse actors gone now. And, Chris Farley.

Death means never having to say anything.

Or pretend anything. Or listen to anything. Why is everyone so afraid of death again?

Because they like living. Perhaps sickness and infirmity at the end of life are nature's method of getting us to realize that death may come as a welcome release.

Or maybe nature doesn't give a damn about any living creature.

As Thomas Mann said in Magic Mountain, "life is a species of death," meaning the elements of life exist, happen to organize themselves in conscious form for a while, and then return to their normal state.

Well, if death comes as a young Robert Redford, then it won't be so bad one day. lol

summer Wrote:
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> Well, if death comes as a young Robert Redford,
> then it won't be so bad one day. lol

+1x10^9

I fear that when death comes to me, it may look like a white-haired gentleman wearing a sombrero and playing an accordion.

and he doesn't show up for a long, long time