{"id":5161,"date":"2013-12-15T14:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2013-12-16T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:51:49","slug":"peter-otoole-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/15\/peter-otoole-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter O&#8217;Toole Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/news\/peter-otoole-dies-lawrence-of-arabia-star-was-81-1200953310\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from VARIETY<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Peter O\u2019Toole Dies; \u2018Lawrence of Arabia\u2019<br \/> Star Was 81<\/h1>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/author\/steve-chagollan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Steve Chagollan<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Assistant Managing Editor, Features<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter O'Toole Dead\" src=\"http:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/peter-otoole-3.jpg?w=490&amp;h=276&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-original=\"http:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/peter-otoole-3.jpg?w=490&amp;h=276&amp;crop=1\" \/><em>Robert Mora\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Irish-born stage and screen actor Peter O\u2019Toole, who became an international star in the title role of David Lean\u2019s Oscar-winning epic \u201c<a id=\"auto-tag_lawrence-of-arabia\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/lawrence-of-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"lawrence-of-arabia\">Lawrence of Arabia<\/a>,\u201d died on Saturday at age 81.<\/p>\n<p>He was undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of his generation. And yet with the 2006 film \u201cVenus,\u201d O\u2019Toole surpassed Welshman Richard Burton and assumed the dubious distinction of being the most nominated actor never to win a competitive Oscar. When it was first announced that O\u2019Toole would receive an Honorary Oscar in 2002, O\u2019Toole astonished the Academy by turning it down, announcing in a letter to the organization that he was \u201cstill in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am 80.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he did indeed show up at the ceremony the following year, accepting the award from Meryl Streep. \u201cAlways a bridemaid never a bride,\u201d he said with typical theatrical flair to an adoring crowd, \u201cmy very own Oscar now to be with me till death do us part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He racked up eight Oscar-nominated performances \u2014 including the beloved schoolmaster in \u201cGoodbye Mr. Chips\u201d (1969); two portrayals of King Henry II (\u201cBecket,\u201d 1964, \u201cLion in Winter,\u201d 1968); an insane aristocrat who thinks he\u2019s Jesus Christ in \u201cThe Ruling Class\u201d (1972); the larger-than-life film director in \u201cThe Stunt Man\u201d (1980); and the swashbuckling actor in \u201cMy Favorite Year\u201d \u2014 but his \u201cLawrence\u201d always loomed largest.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/news\/peter-otoole-dies-lawrence-of-arabia-star-was-81-1200953310\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Variety.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VARIETY Peter O\u2019Toole Dies; \u2018Lawrence of Arabia\u2019 Star Was 81 Steve Chagollan\u00a0\/\u00a0Assistant Managing Editor, Features Robert Mora\/Getty Images Irish-born stage and screen actor Peter O\u2019Toole, who became an international star in the title role of David Lean\u2019s Oscar-winning epic \u201cLawrence of Arabia,\u201d died on Saturday at age 81. He was undoubtedly one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}