An all-grown-up Relative of mine, upon seeing Peter O’Toole in a movie:
Who’s that?
Me (shocked and saddened): THAT’S PETER FREAKIN’ O’TOOLE!!
The Relative: Oh? What’s he been in?
(I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.)
An all-grown-up Relative of mine, upon seeing Peter O’Toole in a movie:
Who’s that?
Me (shocked and saddened): THAT’S PETER FREAKIN’ O’TOOLE!!
The Relative: Oh? What’s he been in?
(I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.)
That is so so devastating.
What movie was it?
-M
red — yes, I was speechless — speechless, I tells ya. And then, so so ashamed … of Relative.
M@ — Well, it was a horrible, HORRIBLE movie called “Phantoms,” I think. It was selected by the Relatives because we have an annual “scary movie” tradition with them.
I guess they got tired of us suggesting “The Shining” every year.
The movie also featured BEN AFFLECK as a sheriff, sporting about in a COWBOY HAT, acting in that moon-faced, vacant way he has — so, technically, it did meet my requirements for a scary movie. I agreed to watch it because I harbored secret hopes that THE AFFLECK would meet an early death.
The horror only increased when I saw Liev Schreiber and the great Peter O’Toole being so abused by the script of this irretrievably stupid thing. And when Liev Schreiber basically turned into a SQUID from the waist down, well, I heard a weird little voice saying, “Tracey’s not here, Mrs. Torrance.” AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
On an unrelated note — I did find myself wondering why Peter O’Toole wasn’t asked to be Dumbledore when Richard Harris died. I spent his scenes picturing him with that long white hair and pointy hat. I thought he looked pretty good. 😉
So who’s Peter O’ Toole?
Just messin’ with ya’, Tracey… 😉
You go NOW, Rev!!!! 😉
tracey –
Have you seen My Favorite Year??? HILARIOUS.
Peter O’Toole plays this aging Errol Flynn type movie star who is now a complete lush – and he is hired to go and do a television show in the early days of live television.
Hilarity ensues.
My favorite line of his is when he realizes that the TV show will be LIVE … somehow it took a while to sink in … and he starts to freak out about the whole live-TV aspect of it … someone says to him, “Well, you just go out there and act …” He shouts, in total panic: “I’m not an actor! I’M A MOVIE STAR!”
red — Yes, I LOVE THAT ONE!! O’Toole as “Alan Swann.” It’s one of my all-time favorites. Priceless.
I love Liev Schreiber. A few summers ago, the missus and I saw him as Henry in the Shakespeare in Central Park production of Henry V. When he did the St. Crispin’s Day monologue (soliloquy?) I literally felt my heart start beating faster. *I* would have charged the French at Agincourt after that speech.
-M@