O'Toole in the States
The Envelope's Tom O'Neil is announcing that Peter O'Toole landed yesterday in New York City. On U.S. soil! And hitting Los Angeles sometime later this week! "You can imagine how nervous his Oscar campaigners have been about getting him stateside for the Globes ceremony and his Oscar campaign," O'Neil writes. "But he made it -- to cyberscreams of joy. Yesterday I got a Blackberry message from one of his campaign chiefs, exclaiming, 'He's on the plane!'"
O'Toole "landed in New York yesterday for an appearance on 'The David Letterman Show' tonight. Today he's also shooting a photo session for Vanity Fair's Oscar issue and is taping an interview with 'The View' that will air on Friday. While in town he's also doing interviews with Charlie Rose, Today, Nightline and with Jon Stewart for The Daily Show. Plus print interviews with the likes of USA Today and radio chats with All Things Considered on NPR.
"Then he heads west to attend the Golden Globes. How long will he remain in Hollywood? Nobody knows, probably not evenly charmingly cranky O'Toole himself."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 10, 2007 at 12:14 PM
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p.Vice
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It must have been difficult to fit his emergency coffin into the overhead luggage bins.
Posted by p.Vice
at January 10, 2007 12:56 PM
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alan
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I still think he's gonna win it.
Posted by alan
at January 10, 2007 1:29 PM
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Mike Schaefer
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So... when-the-hell is Miramax gonna start rolling out Venus beyond NY & LA?
Posted by Mike Schaefer
at January 10, 2007 2:03 PM
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Craig Kennedy
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I hope he's spry enough to make another movie so my last cinematic memory of him is not Venus.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at January 10, 2007 2:21 PM
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nemo
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Even before his health turned frail, O'Toole was a very skittish interview. Like interviewing a rare and shy wild animal that might freeze in order to blend into the background, or gallop away across the horizon.
I saw O'Toole interviewed on Charlie Rose once about 10 years ago, and he totally clammed up. Rose got more and more nervous, which is bad, because Rose can't shut up when he's nervous. Not that he's very good at shutting up and letting the guest talk even when he's relaxed.
O'Toole just sank lower and lower into his chair, occasionally emitting some monosyllabic response. 10 minutes into a 30-minute interview and O'Toole looked as if he had nothing on his mind but the bottle of Scotch back in his hotel room.
Then only a few days later O'Toole did a radio interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air, and he was the life of the party for a half an hour. Witty and pretty and gay.
Let's hope that's the O'Toole who shows up in New York this week.
Posted by nemo
at January 10, 2007 4:23 PM
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corey3rd
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O'Toole was great on Letterman. The Peter Finch and the bar story had everyone laughing.
Posted by corey3rd
at January 10, 2007 9:42 PM
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alynch
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Just saw him on Letterman. He was very charming and affable and had some pretty good drinking stories, but he did not look good.
Posted by alynch
at January 10, 2007 9:42 PM
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dobbsy
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#1 reason to give O'Toole the Oscar for Venus: he deserves it for Venus, which is probably the best thing that either the very talented writer and very talented director have ever done. It's a lovely, moving, daring, honest, memorable film with a brilliant, searing performance at its center. O'Toole has heart, panache, sorrow, grudging, slowly growing wisdom as the facts of his character's life start crowding out his fantasies.
The supporting castmembers are also great, by the way.
#2 reason to give O'Toole the Oscar for Venus: see reason #1.
Posted by dobbsy
at January 10, 2007 11:35 PM
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Craig Kennedy
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Dobbsy, I'm not a guy who likes to take a crap on something when someone is clearly enthusiastic about it, but Venus just didn't do it for me.
There were parts of it I liked a lot, but it felt like two different movies squeezed into one. One aspect was the serious drama about aging and mortality and the other had this creepy crowd pleasing romantic comedy vibe that felt like just a bunch of stuff they could use for the trailer...which they did.
I don't know. Maybe I was having a bad day? I agree O'Toole was excellent in it, though he'd probably be excellent sitting on a toilet in a penguin suit reading the phone book.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at January 11, 2007 9:31 AM
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corey3rd
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O'Toole looked extra bundled up in order to deal with the legendary freezing temps in Dave's studio. he thinks people are more ready to laugh if they are kept on ice.
Posted by corey3rd
at January 11, 2007 9:36 AM
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T. S. Idiot
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Terry Gross is a great interviewer. Charlie Rose, who's starting to resemble O'Toole, isn't.
Posted by T. S. Idiot
at January 11, 2007 11:50 AM
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christian
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like i been saying, rose is the worst.
Posted by christian
at January 11, 2007 1:00 PM
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