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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Becket is spinning up on my hard drive, guess I'm not going to bed after all 
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!" |
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.