11 items from 2012
3 May 2012 1:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett were once shocked out of a fight after their young son Redmond threatened to stab himself through the heart.
The couple endured a tumultuous 30-year romance before the Charlie's Angels beauty passed away in 2009, and O'Neal admits his youngest son's troubles started at an early age when he witnessed their regular arguments.
The pair soon learned to keep their bust-ups away from their child's eyes after he wandered in to one altercation with a knife pointed at his chest when he was just six years old.
Speaking of his fiery relationship with Fawcett, O'Neal tells CNN's Piers Morgan, "She went into a bathroom and I punched the door and the door collapsed and hit her in the eye and I broke my hand. I was looking at her eye and she was getting ice for my hand, those kinds of things were horrible. And one time we were close to a fight and Redmond came into the room with knife and held it to his heart and said, 'If you don't stop I'll plunge it into myself.' It was awful, just awful.
"He was exposed to two people who loved each other very much and it confused him, this was not what he was used to. It was the decision he decided to take to stop us." »
2 May 2012 9:12 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The following is an excerpt from "Both Of Us: My Life With Farrah" [Crown, $26.00] in which fellow-actor and long-time beau Ryan O'Neal shares the secrets of his tumultuous romance with the "Charlie's Angels" starlet. Chapter 5, "Bad Sports," reveals a regretful rut in their relationship:
Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. Today I'm trapped in the latter, having to confront certain truths about Farrah. Writing about Good Sports in the previous chapter brought it back to me, this conversation Farrah and I had.
It was right after we had taped our last show. Farrah and I were vacationing in the Bahamas. We were having dinner at a highly recommended little restaurant on the water. A handsome couple was sitting across from us. And Farrah says to me, “I've been watching those people since we sat down. They don't even look at each other. Who has dinner and doesn't speak? »
- Madeleine Crum
1 May 2012 8:10 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
It was 30 years of highs and lows for Ryan O'Neal and longtime love Farrah Fawcett, but on Tuesday, nearly three years after her death, it all came down to this: 272 pages. However, O'Neal, 71, who was recently diagnosed with stage 2 prostate cancer, said his memoir about their lives isn't a tell-all. Both of Us, which arrived in stores Tuesday, was published to honor those 30 years. "Well, I wrote it because I missed her, and it was a way to keep the line between us going," he said on Tuesday's Today show. "I still felt she was there when I wrote this. »
- Alison Schwartz
29 April 2012 7:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actor Ryan O'Neal has told how he cradled his dying lover Farrah Fawcett for hours on her deathbed before she finally succumbed to cancer.
The Charlie's Angels star was struck down with anal cancer in 2006 and O'Neal was a constant presence at her side as her condition deteriorated.
The Love Story star, who is fighting stage two prostate cancer, detailed his heartbreak over Fawcett's failing health in his diaries, which have been made into a new book, Both Of Us: My Life With Farrah, and serialised in Britain's Mail on Sunday.
In the tome, O'Neal tells how he planned to marry Fawcett in St John's Hospital, but the priest who arrived to oversee the ceremony ended up administering the last rites instead.
He writes, "After the priest leaves, I lie down next to her, wrap my body around her to keep her warm, and then take her hand. I can feel a steady pulse... I caress her hand for hours. Her heart refuses to quit.
"I'm left alone with my love. I take her hand. I can still feel her pulse, but now it is fluttering. She's trying to let go. Her heartbeat slows, then disappears. On the morning of June 25, Farrah slips into eternal sleep."
O'Neal also shares his shame over the physical altercations he and Fawcett endured during their tumultuous relationship: "Neither of us possessed the emotional discipline to say: 'Wait a minute, this isn't normal, we need help.'
"You have to remember that I'm a trained boxer... If someone is coming at me with fists flailing, my instinct is to block the blows, which is what I did with Farrah... I didn't see my behaviour as aberrant. In reality, most of the time it wasn't her I was lashing out at, it was my kids, the world, Hollywood, my agent, you name it. I'm a moody guy." »
24 April 2012 9:03 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Last week, on the Fox News program The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly discussed his fear that Glee might encourage kids to experiment with "alternative lifestyles." He stressed that the "glamorous" nature of the program might seduce kids into trying homosexuality or becoming transgender. When asked if he thought homosexual or gender identity might be "contagious," he said "I don't know." He concluded that "a lot of these dopey kids are confused about who they are."
Is it true that a television program can influence a person's sexuality or gender? When I was a kid growing up, I loved The Love Boat. Did the rampant heterosexuality on that show influence me to "experiment" with heterosexuality? When Gopher chased Charo, did it make me want to go out and chase a girl? No. In fact, the hundreds and hundreds of episodes of "straight" shows that I watched (The Brady Bunch, Three's Company, »
- Domenick Scudera
19 March 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten TV to Film Adaptations This weekend 21 Jump Street scored the top spot at the weekend box-office and Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall are busy preparing a sequel and after posting my review someone on Twitter told me one of the reasons they liked it was because it was a huge improvement compared to most TV-to-film adaptations. While I enjoyed it, I wasn't as excited over it as some people seem to be and I never even thought to compare it to other TV-to-film adaptations, especially considering a film needs to stand on its own, whether it's simply better than other films that tried to make the leap from the small screen to the silver screen is irrelevant. But it did get me to thinking... what are the best TV-to-film adaptations? So I started the process of compiling a list and while 21 Jump Street is a good flick, it »
- Brad Brevet
9 February 2012 5:24 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Jaclyn Smith has won a guest role in a forthcoming episode of CSI. The Charlie's Angels star will play the mother of David Hodges (Wallace Langham), according to TV Guide. Smith's character will pay her son a surprise visit at the lab and interact with his CSI co-workers. Best known for playing Kelly Garrett on the original Charlie's Angels from 1976 to 1981, Smith latterly starred in CBS cop drama The District between 2002 and 2004 and also appeared in a 2010 episode (more) »
- By Morgan Jeffery
7 February 2012 6:30 AM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Let me make one thing clear: I really liked the remake of Battlestar Galactica. Seriously, I did. Ok? Now that that's out of the way, here is this week's hypothesis:
TV Remakes Are Bad Mojo.
It's not that I think producing series that have already been made shows a lack of originality or ambition (which I do). It's not that rehashing shows from the past reduces the chances for new; unique ideas to succeed (which it does). It's not even that I intensely dislike almost all of the TV that has ever been remade (before you set your Tweet to stun, see the BSG comment above).
I claim that TV Remakes are bad juju, because I have done the research, and it is simply, conclusively, unquestionably, factually true. Skeptical? Here is a chart laying out the historical success/failure rate of TV Remakes, show by show:
Notes: I have run »
- Evan Shapiro
19 January 2012 9:36 PM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Charlie's (Victor Garber) old friend's yacht is hijacked by Mercer (Pedro Pascal) who is wanted for kidnapping. He demands a $5 million ransom. "My angels were the answers to his prayers." Hey Bosley said similar in 1.4 Angels in Chains, "They do answer my prayers," he tells Samantha. Abby (Rachael Taylor) comments on this being another day in paradise when they go ahead with the rescue. Eve (Minka Kelly) and Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez) dive underwater and they reach the yacht that way. Abby demands proof of life and Mercer shows him the boy. They fight the kidnappers and Abby does her 'Xenia Onatopp' (Famke Janssen) impression from the 007 Goldeneye movie. (But not as suggestive.) Mercer escapes overboard and the explosion is so fake CGI. Theo, the boy, draws a pic of the angels but leaves out Bosley. He got footage from the card on the camcorder of a mother and son. Charlie calls Bosley, »
- mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
19 January 2012 7:55 PM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Charlie (Victor Garber) sends the angels to rescue Tess (Krista Kalmus) who was kidnapped 3 weeks ago. She's the sixth American kidnapped in this area. Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez) is already in Cuba making contact with an inside man. They are to go in undercover as American tourists. Abby (Rachael Taylor) comments, "Loud and obnoxious." Charlie's yacht will be international waters in 24 hours. Havana, Cuba: The hotel man registers them and tells them to leave their bags so can plant stuff in it and have a drink. He makes a phonecall. Bosley waits for them at the bar suited out in glasses, he's a lawyer. Abby says, a Communist lawyer, "that is so cute." Santos(Romero Fumazoni) is their man on the inside. Their bags contain drugs and Bosley tries to help, introducing himself as Jose Juan Bosley but bails out on helping them as soon as drugs are mentioned, so they are arrested. »
- mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
5 January 2012 6:41 PM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
The angels attend a photoshoot looking for a missing girl; find a man who was her stalker and took photos of her. A chase begins and he ends up in the water, courtesy of Eve (Minka Kelly). Gabriella (Hayley Higgins) is missing and Eve thinks he's about to pull out a gun, but it's his phone. Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez) says the man can talk to Eve if he won't talk to him. Eve rearing to go and cause some major hurt. He wants to find Gabriella too. "Once upon a time there were three young women who got into very big trouble. Now they work for me. My name is Charlie." The opening narration has been made shorter than the Pilot episode and quite honestly, they could have given it some major oomph. It's so flat and boring. He claims he was at the hospital and his alibi checks. Kate »
- mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
11 items from 2012
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