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newcritics: The Unfinished Epic of Peter O’Toole

  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    It may be that the Oscars can only measure degrees of excellence between the ordinary actors, not the dangerous ones.

    I think that best sums up the Oscars all around. Brillant post.
  • Terry L. Toliver · 1 year ago
    O'Toole can get more accross with just a gesture or look than many ators do with a mountain of diologue.
  • blue girl · 2 years ago
    What a wonderful post, M.A.!

    I really, really enjoyed seeing him making the PR rounds for his latest movies. I just got the biggest kick out of him.

    O’Toole chose a role that demands that we not just swoon over his ascots and sonnet speak—the bread and butter of his own life—but that we acknowledge and accept the side of the life force that does not quench “respectably” with age.

    That's so great.

    They assigned my spot to be Sat. at 4:00 p.m. I just found out TCM is running Lawrence of Arabia at 4:00 ! What are the odds?

    That's so great, too. I love when magic happens!
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    My 12-year-old and I watched Lawrence on TCM (what a station!) a couple of weeks ago on a cold, sleeting Saturday. I told him it was released the year his Dad was born, bt he commented that it didn't feel old-fashioned. He also said that Lawrence seemed always to be on edge - "was he kind of crazy, Dad?" I said, well this character certainly is. O'Toole is one of those British working actors - why, in the last 10 years he's been in 23 movies or major television productions.
  • M.A. Peel · 2 years ago
    Claire, blue girl, I will admit there's a tiny part of me that imagines O'Toole's name being called tomorrow--it's the same part that thinks one of these times, Mammy is going to hear Scarlett calling for Rhett in that terrible scene after her miscarriage.

    Tom, very glad to see the next generation is on board--
  • Aris · 2 years ago
    Interesting...
  • Angelo · 2 years ago
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  • Thomas Lark · 1 year ago
    Wonderful man...the greatest actor of the 20th century.
    Anyone know where to send Mr O’Toole a birthday card?
  • phone credit card processing · 2 months ago
    Claire, blue girl, I will admit there's a tiny part of me that imagines O'Toole's name being called tomorrow--it's the same part that thinks one of these times, Mammy is going to hear Scarlett calling for Rhett in that terrible scene after her miscarriage.