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SUCCESS STORY –
Feb. 26, 2025 – Tatum O’Neal walked into Smashbox Studios using a cane, a vestige of the stroke she had in 2020 after an overdose. As she was getting a manicure, she struggled to remember the names of important people in her life. But now that she’s actually before the cameras, posing with her Oscar in hand, she’s come alive. There’s electricity in the air, and we’re all leaning in, cheering her on, rooting for her.
In April 1974, at age 10, a tuxedoed O’Neal — “I’m the original tomboy,” she tells me later — won a supporting actress Oscar for her role opposite her father, Ryan O’Neal, in Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon.” She became the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award, a record she still holds. “Paper Moon” and her Oscar triumph were the start of O’Neal’s heavily scrutinized public life, then followed by teen movie stardom and a worrying wild-child presence in the pre-internet gossip press. At 21, when she began dating John McEnroe, at the time the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the tabloids went into a frenzy, stalking them wherever they went, and causing problems for their already tempestuous relationship.
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