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Peter O'Toole retires, says his 'heart' for acting is gone
L A Times ^ | July 10, 2012 | Susan King

Posted on 07/11/2012 7:45:32 AM PDT by beaversmom

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To: BlueLancer

I loved “High Spirits” too! A very funny movie.


41 posted on 07/11/2012 9:51:32 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mkleesma
Just saw him the other day in My Favorite Year. Fantastic film.

I too found this a surprisingly touching movie when I saw it decades ago. A tragi-comedy. Although O'Toole's "Alan Swann" was unmistakenly Errol Flynn, it was also had sad auto-biographical overtones due to his own abuse of alcohol which had clearly taken its toll on O'Toole.

42 posted on 07/11/2012 10:25:00 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: allmendream

PING


43 posted on 07/11/2012 10:34:58 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: Oratam
Aahh, a Hollywood Knights reference. Well played, Sir. Well played.

LOL!

"Hey Newbomb, where's your brother's El Camino?"

44 posted on 07/11/2012 10:35:10 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Rinnwald

O’Toole has created an amazing body of work but “Murphy’s War” was the first film to come to my mind while reading this thread. I don’t think any other actor could have brought the intensity and determination to the role that he did. Absolutely nothing was going to stop him from sinking that submarine! Great film.


45 posted on 07/11/2012 10:43:46 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Pappy Smear

Looks like an uncut version of “Masada” is available on Netflix.

As for Peter ... what can I say? One of the greats. It’s a shame he feels like retiring, but OTOH, people in other professions get to retire when they’re old and done in, so why not rich actors as well?


46 posted on 07/11/2012 10:46:56 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ( "Be Breitbart, baby!")
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To: Moltke

Ah, seems like IMDB does not like its pictures posted elsewhere - the pic was there in the preview and in the thread just after I posted.

Anyway, what I was recommending was Rogue Male (1977). IMDB.com has the details.


47 posted on 07/11/2012 11:54:23 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: beaversmom

I sometimes get the feeling that a lot of his stories were made-up or dressed-up; but he told them with relish and such a twinkle in his eye, that I didn’t care. I remember, way back, decades ago, thinking he’d soon be dead, what with his horrendous drinking and turbulent lifestyle. He was way up there in the betting pools. But he pulled it together and still managed to come across as a charming rogue and a wonderfully entertaining actor and bon vivant. Sorry to hear he’s retiring. I thank him and wish him well.


48 posted on 07/11/2012 12:16:07 PM PDT by floralamiss
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To: Postman

Yes, postman, it might be a TRICK! Let us hope.


49 posted on 07/11/2012 12:21:45 PM PDT by floralamiss
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To: beaversmom

Looks like Alan Ladd stretched vertically.


50 posted on 07/11/2012 12:47:11 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (If you believe what you're saying, quit making taxable income.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
I've always enjoyed the movie and that line

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51 posted on 07/11/2012 12:51:09 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Bernard Marx

I think I read or heard in an interview of him that he had childhood fantasies of going over to kill Hitler.


52 posted on 07/11/2012 12:56:39 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Bernard Marx

It must have been in this interview—starts at approximately the 4:00 mark. This is an excellent interview of O’Toole BTW.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3343


53 posted on 07/11/2012 1:04:50 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Rinnwald
My favorite O’Toole role is in the little seen and underappreciated MURPHY’S WAR. Skinny Irishman versus a Nazi submarine.

One of the better war movies ever made, IMO. The book was good, too.

54 posted on 07/11/2012 1:15:25 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: chrisser
I like the guy, but something about him always seemed a bit creepy.

Agreed. Even when he was young and handsome (see below) there's just something a little off-putting about him.

If you want to really be creeped out, go Google some pics of what he looks like now.

55 posted on 07/11/2012 1:26:04 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: Rinnwald

I haven’t seen that movie in ages but remember it fairly well.


56 posted on 07/11/2012 5:26:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: beaversmom

Watch for the really bouncing boulders during one of the first seige scenes.


57 posted on 07/11/2012 5:31:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: beaversmom

self ping


58 posted on 07/11/2012 5:34:09 PM PDT by advertising guy (the White House hasn't had this much leakin since Billy Carter watered the Rose Garden)
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To: Lizavetta

Noel Coward reportedly said after the premiere that if Peter had been any prettier, the film would have been called “Florence of Arabia”.


59 posted on 07/11/2012 6:34:54 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Lizavetta; chrisser
If you want to really be creeped out, go Google some pics of what he looks like now.

Hey, be nice. The guy is 80 years old in a couple of weeks. We've all got to get old. Not sure why you two get the creeps from him. See some of his interview with Charlie Rose a few posts above that I posted. To me he's real, charming, smart, hysterical, and incredibly interesting. Not a phony bone in his body and nothing that I can see that's creepy.

60 posted on 07/11/2012 11:57:02 PM PDT by beaversmom
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