Nora Ephron takes to HuffPo to explain how she can totally relate to one of her entertainment industry pal’s wacky mix-ups:

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.
A couple of years ago, I was standing in a mall in Las Vegas when I saw a very pleasant-looking woman coming towards me, smiling, her arms outstretched, and I thought, who is this woman? Where do I know her from? Then she spoke and I realized it was my sister Amy.
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As it happens, Ryan O’Neal had not seen his daughter Tatum in years. He thought she was a Swedish person. I completely understand. The truth is that had I been gay, I might have accidentally made a pass at my own sister in a mall in Las Vegas. So who’s to judge? Not me.

P.S. Aside from the obviously terrible part of this, isn’t it kind unseemly trying to pick up on someone at a funeral?

P.P.S. Unseemly? Apparently this happened at the funeral of Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O’Neal’s ex-wife and mother of one of his children. Ugh.

P.P.P.S. Yes, when I read about this — I thought of The Wedding Crashers as well.