RIP Thread - Raise a glass to those who have passed

[Blackneto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOU3gDn ... ata_player

[Blackneto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMUQZ7V ... ata_player

[Palinka (RIP)]

Definitely a drink to Peter O'Toole, tonight.
Here's to hoping that you, Ollie Reed, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Tony and Tim are raising hell in Valhalla.
Thank you for all the great times spent watching great movies.

[Oggar]

Rest in peace Mr O'Toole.

[mistah willies]

Lawrence of Arabia is tantamount, but also quite enjoyable is My Favorite Year. Helluva job, there, that. Sadly, one must purchase the actuall movie on YT. They getting all Netflix on us?

peace and drinks in hevaen, marvelous old sot.




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[Palinka (RIP)]

If you can find it, hunt down the film of Peter O'Toole in the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. It should be in the top ten of anyone's list of booze oriented movies (even though it is a straight-forward filming of a theatrical production). I have an old VHS copy, which I shall be watching accompanied with vodka (a favourite of both Jeffrey Bernard and Peter O'Toole).

Having completed a quick search of Amazon, I am pleased to say that there is a DVD version available (although it seems that it is only available in Region 2 format but that shouldn't worry you, most DVD players are multi-region, these days, or, if push comes shove, watch it on your computer), I cannot recommend strongly enough how much anyone who loves booze should watch this film. Peter O'Toole is magnificent as the late full-time drunkard and occasional writer, Jeffrey Bernard; a man who often disappeared on enormous benders, missing his print deadlines, which would lead his editors to simply print "Jeffrey Bernard is unwell" in place of his column (the wonderfully titled and superbly researched, "The Low Life").

Well, don't just sit there. Go and order a copy of the film and get a compilation of Bernard's writing to accompany it.

[Palinka (RIP)]

In more questionable taste (and not for the easily disturbed), the notorious Oliver Reed and Peter O'Toole sketch from Spitting Image.

[mistah willies]

^
"Now I'm Peter No-Toole"

Ha!

But damn, that Reed doll looks exactly like him.

Hmmm.

The name "Oliver" makes one think of olives, and vermouth, and...

"I'll out-live my liver."


Amen.

[coqui_chris]

Story goes that he and Michael Caine were filming a movie and they went off on a tear. They wake up in some strange apartment and Michael Caine has no idea where it is or what time it is. So he asks Peter O'Toole "What time is it?"

"Nevermind what time it is," Peter O'Toole reputedly says. "What fucking day is it?"

[Duluoz]

If you can find it, hunt down the film of Peter O'Toole in the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.

[Bobby Stout]

The tale of him writing a cheque to buy a particular pub in Ireland that couldn't/wouldn't serve him one night (I think it was well closed and the owner was in bed at the time) as it was closed/after-hours is superb. The landlord still has the cheque, framed on the wall, I'm told.

[Palinka (RIP)]

If you can find it, hunt down the film of Peter O'Toole in the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.

Thank you, Duluoz. An brilliant find, sir. I shall see that you are mentioned in dispatches for this. In the meantime help yourself to a medal and a large brandy to help you swallow it.

[Lush City]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMUQZ7V ... ata_player

Thanks. This was perfect. Didn't know he was a big drinker at least in his younger days. His epitaph explanation was great.

[Judge]

Piper: Are you Richard Burton?

Evelyn Tremble: No, I'm Peter O'Toole!

Piper: Then you're the greatest man that ever BREATHED.


Name that movie!

[Palinka (RIP)]

Why, 'tis none other than the 1967 version of "Casino Royale".

And if you require proof, it is here!