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To: Lurker

Not even close. It’s Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year.


YES!!! Peter O’Toole was SO GOOD in this movie!! When he first staggers into a conference room as Alan Swann, one of the King Kaiser show producers says “He’s plastered!!” O’toole responds, “If I were TRULY plastered, could I do THIS?! Hold my sword!” Then he proceeds to do a somersault onto the conference table, rolls perfectly over and lands with a large a movie projector between his stretched-out legs, BARELY missing his crotch—and then he instantly passes out cold in that position. Peter O’Toole was sheer perfection in this movie! He was nominated for an Oscar and he should have won.


16 posted on 05/04/2021 6:08:38 PM PDT by RooRoobird20
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To: RooRoobird20

Peter O’Toole was something else. Most actors portraying drunks are too over the top. O’Toole plays a drunk not as a drunk, but as a drunk man. A human who is drunk. Most drunks (on screen) are pathetic. He was sympathetic. When he drives up to see his abandoned daughter, and is too afraid to talk to her...he just nailed it. My guess is that he and booze were no strangers.


38 posted on 05/04/2021 6:54:58 PM PDT by fhayek
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