Posted on 12/11/2013 7:15:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
The University of Texas at Austin is suing ONeal to try to gain possession of the portrait. Fawcett left all her artwork to the school and it claims ONeal improperly took it from her condo days after her death.
The Oscar-nominated actor took the stand for the second time in the trial to assert his ownership of the portrait and why its important for him to keep it.
I talk to it, ONeal said. I talk to her. Its her presence. Her presence in my life. In her sons life.
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That guy has some “issues”
Let him have it. Geeeeeeeeez
I understand that.
Some people go and talk to gravestones.
It is a wonderful likeness and it has a “lifelike” quality that I could see as being compelling as a source of comfort.
Warhol mass produced and a repro of his is as good as the original. Let the man have it.
They got all the others. Have a heart. Completely understandable and anyone who says otherwise is just wrong.
Keep Austin Weird.
The University should have arranged something.
UofT is looking bad over this.
Tell the greedy ubiversity to back off.
The Subsitute Wife
I've got this little number hanging up in my house. I talk to it. It means a lot to me. That means I can keep it, right?
You think that guy has issues? He wants a special picture of his love?
Have you ever lost a loved one?
>>They got all the others. Have a heart. Completely understandable and anyone who says otherwise is just wrong.
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Agreed.
The “we have a heart” libtard U is showing its real colors (as eventually do all liberals).
They look bad and they deserve to. At the very least, they could make a deal to delay taking possession during his lifetime. Mr. O’Neal may not always be a sympathetic man, but in this case, yes.
The art piece serves its purpose better than it ever could in a museum, it’s a s simple as that. It has emotional appeal for somebody, what more can an artist ask?
Everyone knows Jaclyn Smith was the hot one.
he talks to a painting
Nice....
Not really, he just uses the picture as a foil because he can’t talk to her directly any more.
I do believe he loves her and misses her.
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