Nora Ephron: Don't Judge Ryan O'Neal for Hitting on His Daughter at Farrah's Funeral

Hollywood Values

From the director of “Julie & Julia” over at HuffPo:

I understand that Ryan O’Neal has confessed, in the current edition of Vanity Fair, that he recently failed to recognize his own daughter Tatum at a funeral and accidentally made a pass at her.

Everyone is very judgmental about this, but I just want to say that I sympathize. …

As it happens, Ryan O’Neal had not seen his daughter Tatum in years. He thought she was a Swedish person. I completely understand. … So who’s to judge? Not me.

The woman Ryan O’Neal spent over a decade with and had a child with dies after a long agonizing bout of cancer, he hits on some “Swedish person” at the funeral, and that’s all fine…

What would be wrong is judging that kind of behavior.