{"id":74259,"date":"2013-12-15T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=74259"},"modified":"2013-12-15T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T22:06:31","slug":"r-i-p-peter-otoole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=74259","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Peter O&#8217;Toole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eTbLkYmWZJo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nMitchell and I can recite <i>My Favorite Year<\/i> almost word for word, and &#8220;I AM NOT AN ACTOR! I&#8217;M A MOVIE STAR!!&#8221; is the best of the bunch (although &#8220;I only wore it once&#8221; is a close second). <\/p>\n<p>I know with a career as lengthy and varied as O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s it may be strange to think of <i>My Favorite Year<\/i> first, but that&#8217;s the way it goes. Some things just <i>stick<\/i>. We watched it in college, when we were studying acting, and it had this loopy screwball ridiculousness that seemed to reflect exactly what was going on for us in our own productions, with mishaps and wig changes and props going missing, and all of it super-silly and 100% serious.  We LOVED <i>My Favorite Year<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>And then of course there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=58854\">good old <i>Lawrence of Arabia<\/i><\/a>, which I saw recently in its re-release.  I discuss O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s performance at great length at that link, which was sheer overwhelming genius on the gigantic Ziegfeld screen.  Seriously. It is even more mysterious seen large.  Even after so many viewings, that performance hasn&#8217;t even begun to reveal all its secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace. You were an actor AND a movie star. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell and I can recite My Favorite Year almost word for word, and &#8220;I AM NOT AN ACTOR! I&#8217;M A MOVIE STAR!!&#8221; is the best of the bunch (although &#8220;I only wore it once&#8221; is a close second). I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=74259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74262,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74259\/revisions\/74262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}