If you are a Peter O'Toole fan...
 

...and have Turner Classic Movies, turn it on today!

Sadly, you've already missed My Favorite Year. But, now showing: Becket.

Still to come:

The Last Emperor
Lord Jim
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Ruling Class
The Stunt Man

The Ruling Class is not among my favorites (although TBH I've only seen it once and that was ages ago). Never seen The Stunt Man but I've heard very good things about it. Not sure if I'm willing to stay up all night for it, though.

Nevertheless, my day is pretty much accounted for, lol. Also: LAWRENCE OF FREAKING ARABIA! I really need to get that on DVD. Absolutely made of win.

Peter O'Toole is good even if he has been in "shadow"
 

time to bring him up :up:

Now why haven't TCM UK done this? :damn:

Absolutely love Peter O'Toole films. Got my Dad to thank for that. :DL

Don't know about the UK, but over here in August every day on TCM is devoted to one person. So today it's all films featuring Peter O'Toole.

Why they're not showing The Lion In Winter, I can't imagine. Maybe they used it for someone else's "day" and I've missed it. I need to get that one on DVD as well.

Honestly, I think I would watch Peter O'Toole sit in a chair and read the phone book out loud. Possibly because you know at some point he'd look at a name and then say, "I knew a fellow named 'X' once..." and then he'd tell some awesome and hilarious story about it.

Have you seen him in "Murphy's War"?
Its got a U-boat in it! :up:

:)

Yeah. I first saw that on tv as a kid. Strangely I have only seen it once since but I remember it for the Mcgyver style repairs he did on the sea-plane.

The Stunt Man: one of my all-time favorites. Steve Railsbeck is a wanted fugitive who takes refuge with a crazy director (O'Toole) who he's sure is trying to kill him. Both of them (and Barbara Hershey as well) are at the top of their game.

When it gets to the part where we finally find out what Railsbeck's heinous crime was, you'll wet yourself.

Well, somebody will, anyway.

Sounds like I need to add another flick to my Netflix queue. Provided I don't end up sitting up all night to watch it.

Becket is spinning up on my hard drive, guess I'm not going to bed after all :DL

Good story about Peter O'Toole getting drunk with a friend in a pub in London, and he said, "Let's go and see a play." At one point O'Toole nudged his friend and said, "This is brilliant. This is the bit - where I come on. Oh, bollocks!"

:har:

Classic.

There's a little "mini-film" they run sometimes as filler on TCM that is bits of an interview with him and clips of some of his films. At the end he says that once he had sent a bedraggled leather jacket to a cleaners, one that (O'Toole being O'Toole) had suffered all manner of indignities in the way of blood, booze, and heaven knows what else getting splashed or spilled on it. The cleaners did the best they could but returned the jacket with a note pinned to it that read, "It distresses us to return work that is not perfect."

He said he figured that would "just about do" for him as well, and they could put it on his tombstone.

What about Caligula? Not one of his best but still worth a look for other reasons,:)

Better than up all night for a Planet of the Apes marathon. You need Pepto-bismol after that one.

I thought the exact same thing. Been watching TCM all day.

I am sitting here right now waiting for my favorite jumpcut in movie history: the burning match that gives way to the sun rising over the desert.

Aaaaaand there it is. Cue theme music!

Ooh! Ooh! Forgot another 'small' favorite (there are so many):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/

Based loosely on Mel Brooks's early days as a TV writer. Mark Linn-Baker is not Mel Brooks, Peter O'Toole is not Errol Flynn, and Joseph Bologna is not Sid Caesar. Wonderful.