Barbra Streisand pays tribute to her late ex Ryan O’Neal: ‘Funny and charming’
nypost.comInstagram photo of the young duo working together on Friday.“We made two films together, ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘The Main Event.’ He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.”O’Neal “passed away peacefully” on Friday, his son, Patrick, announced.
In her recently-released memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand claimed she and the “Love Story” star first met at a dinner party in 1970, writing the actor, “fancied me and asked for my number.”“We started seeing each other, and it was kind of a new dynamic for me . . .
easy and casual,” she penned. “I remember a moment early on when he told me, ‘I love you,’ and I said, ‘What do you mean? You don’t know me.’ Trust me to be so literal.”Although their relationship “fizzled” by the time they shot “What’s Up, Doc?” in 1972, they still remained friendly. “I learned more about comedy from Barbara than anyone,” O’Neal reflected to The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022.O’Neal and Streisand reunited on-screen for 1979’s “The Main Event.”Patrick O’Neal announced his father’s death on Friday.
Ryan was 82. “My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life,” Patrick wrote in a lengthy Instagram post. “As a human being, my father was as generous as they come.
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