The actress Tatum O’Neal is taping her new podcast, Tatum, Verbatim, at a studio and arguing with her producer, Brian Howie.
Howie wants O’Neal to project the logo of her podcast – a black-and-white photo of herself with the words Tatum, Verbatim imposed over it – on a large flat-screen television sandwiched between black leather sofas where she and her daughter Emily are sitting.
“Why would I want a big picture of myself next to me?” O’Neal says.
Howie presses on, as producers are apt to do. “You should want a picture of yourself there,” he tells her. “I have a picture of my logo flashing next to me during my podcast,” he insists.
“No,” she says. “It’s tacky.”
Tatum O’Neal (second from right) with (from left) son Sean, father Ryan, daughter Emily and son Kevin at a screening of her classic film ‘Paper Moon’ in 2003 in Los Angeles (Kevin Winter/Getty)
At 54, O’Neal is used to putting her foot down, she says later that day…
