The Life
"I want to thank my director and my father." This was the acceptance speech from eight-year-old Tatum O'Neal, the youngest Oscar winner in history. Such professional words for such a little girl. Sadly, in her new autobiography, we see just how much Tatum's young life mirrored that of Addie, her character in Paper Moon, the world-weary, clever little con-girl (a comparison not lost on the author).
You would think that winning the highest accolade an actor can aspire to would have made life wonderful for a little girl. But as Tatum details, life was anything but. Apparently, after her Oscar win, her father, actor Ryan O'Neal --- who was her co-star in the movie --- slugged her. And after The Bad News Bears was a runaway hit, he slugged her again. Par for the course of this rocky family relationship. Tatum dealt with abandonment, drug abuse, molestation, and physical and verbal abuse. And the cycle seemed to repeat itself during her tumultuous six-year marriage to tennis great John......
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