Tatum O'Neil vs. Kristy McNichol

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Weigh in on this perennially favorite spar.

tart, Thursday, 18 December 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630021396X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


But they became friends in the end!!!

In any event, Tatum wins every damn time.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 December 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatum in Paper Moon was as cute as Shirley Temple and as bad-ass as Shaft.
Kristy McNichol has a horrible name and conjures up images of fake-velvet shirts with rainbows on them and Jordache jeans.
Ergo, Tatum by a mile.

oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 December 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Jimmy & Kristy McNichol have their own TV show? I remember that she was on "Family," a show you'll never, ever see, not on Nick At Nite, not on DVD... never!

andy, Friday, 19 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Kristy

Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're talking "Little Darlings," the winner is Cynthia Nixon, as the little hippie chick:

http://www.dreamstarlets.com/features/!bios/cynthia_nixon22.jpg

Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It really boils down to Paper Moon v. Empty Nest.

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Kristy was always cooler and dykier. I thought Tatum lost most of her appeal afterPaper Moon.

I love pre-One Day at a Time MacKenzie Phillips above all, though.

Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

kristy! rowr!

joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

for love, kristy
for lust, tatum
for drinks, matthau

Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mayday/kristy1980.jpg

joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta say, Kristy never did anything for me. Tatum still looks sensational.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Heroin and all.

Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O'Neal was arrested Sunday for buying crack cocaine in New York, police said.

The 44-year-old actress, who penned a 2004 memoir about her long road to sobriety, was arrested around 7:30 p.m. on the Lower East Side of Manhattan after she was seen making a purchase from a drug dealer, police said.

Investigators charged her with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. She is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

At 10, O'Neal won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the movie "Paper Moon."

She is the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal and the ex-wife of tennis star John McEnroe, with whom she has three children.

Dom Passantino, Monday, 2 June 2008 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

When approached by officers who had witnessed the alleged transaction outside a Chinese restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she reportedly told them: “Do you know who I am?” before claiming to be researching a movie role.

carne asada, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

Surmounter, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

researching a role for mynetworkTV no doubt

omar little, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched a Law and Order last night where she "played" a total lunatic.

bnw, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Kristy comes out.

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/01/buddy-comes-out.html

well, younger than George Takei, at least.

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:43 (fourteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

When I was in high school in the '80s I used to go to my favorite movie theater and sometimes watch two movies in a row, and I would typically be slightly sleepy during the second feature, taking it in in some kind of twilight state. There was one movie I thus vaguely remembered from back then, an action film with a dark vibe and a female protagonist, with some kind of generic action film title. In later years I could never identify the film since I falsely remembered the lead as Jodie Foster, and imdb says she did nothing like that in the mid '80s.

Finally, just this week, I figured out the film was Certain Fury (1985) staring Tatum O'Neal. So I rewatched it. It co-stars Irene Cara, and it's relentlessly, almost ridiculously grim. You can see what the idea was, to put two Oscar winners (as the movie poster boasted) in a very heavy violent drama, lots of opportunity to show acting chops. But it goes off the rails in almost every way, coming across skeevy and unpleasant.

Seems like this film derailed the film careers of both O'Neal and Cara for a number of years. It was directed by Maggie Gyllenhall's dad.

Josefa, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 00:43 (one month ago)


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