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Acting legend Peter O'Toole is 80 years old! The thesp with the piercing eyes scooped a whopping eight Oscar nominations during a glittering career for the likes of 'Lawrence Of Arabia, ' The Lion In Winter' and 'Venus'. He was also awarded a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 2003 (he initially turned it down, famously saying "I want to win the lovely bugger outright"). He's now retired, but his CV is remarkable. O'Toole is not just renowned for his monumental acting talent though. He's also infamous for his hellraising antics, along with fellow luvvies Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter Finch...

Screen legend Peter O'Toole announced today that he is retiring from acting. "It's time for me to chuck in the sponge," he said in a statement. "To retire from stage and screen. The heart for it has gone out of me; it won't come back." O'Toole, who turns 80 on Aug. 2, achieved international stardom and his first Oscar nomination for David Lean's 1962's Academy Award-winning epic "Lawrence of Arabia." O'Toole was 27 when he earned the coveted title role. When he was cast in 1960, The Times quoted a London critic who called the young actor "a blazing new...

Hear Us Now is pleased to host Randal O’Toole of the CATO Institute on October 11th. His topic will be, “The Best Laid Plans”: […]how government attempts to do long-range, comprehensive planning inevitably do more harm than good by choking American cities with congestion, making housing markets more unaffordable, and sending the cost of government infrastructure skyrocketing.

...a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful that the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, was, by a unique grace and privilege of Almighty God in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, preserved exempt from all stain of original sin. –Ineffabilis Deus Today's feast day is more than Pope Pius IX's 1854 infallible proclamation, as important as that Dogma was and is. Today's feast day, which issues not only from the Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus but its echo...

Murtha-tied Company Wins Sole-Source Vaccine Contract Michael Goldfarb January 4, 2010 Several months ago we warned that Tara O'Toole who recently became Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security would reward her friends resulting in millions of dollars in gifts to John Murtha cronies who supported her nomination. And it now appears the Murtha/O'Toole favor factory has begun production. In February 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a request for proposal (RFP) for a second-generation Anthrax vaccine. This RFP was issued to be a re-procurement for a contract that...

President Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.

Peter O'Toole has criticised Hollywood actresses for their "vacant" personas, comparing them to "unlit lampposts". The veteran actor stars alongside British newcomer Jodie Whittaker in new movie Venus, and has lavished praised on his young co-star. But O'Toole believes the majority of Tinseltown beauties are incapable of having any real depth of character - and would have struggled to fill Whittaker's shoes. He says: "You look into their eyes and there's no one at home. Oh God help us! It's like looking at an unlit lamppost."

A police superintendent and at least two special operations officers ``randomly'' sprayed pepper pellets into a raucous crowd outside Fenway Park in the moments before an Emerson College student was struck in the eye and killed, a witness told the Herald. ``I saw (Deputy Superintendent Robert O'Toole) and the other special operations officers flailing their guns from side to side like machine guns,'' said Giovanni De Francisci, 30, an Emerson College graduate student. ``They were just popping off shots at the crowd.'' De Francisci, who said he was standing near O'Toole when he asked another officer for a pepper-pellet gun,...

<p>Ask Peter O'Toole. He'll grimace and groan and warn, in so many words, ``Beware the Honorary Oscar.''</p> <p>Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, Buster Keaton and Kirk Douglas -- Hollywood legends all -- were quasi-embarrassed recipients of kiss-up or make-up Oscars bestowed belatedly for ``versatility,'' ``commitment'' and ``unique contributions to the art of the motion picture'' (code for: Oops! We overlooked you).</p>