Today we lost the dashing, dry-witted, über-talented Peter O'Toole, and his legendary performances are rightly being commemorated. But O'Toole had more than just acting chops — he had the charisma and the gravitas to, say, pull off riding into Letterman smoking a cigarette atop a camel, which he later fed a Heineken.
Peter O'Toole, an eight-time Academy Award nominee and star of Lawrence of Arabia, has died at the age of 81. He passed away after a long illness.
This morning's Defamer Attractions was gravely remiss in omitting Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage from its assortment of hot new DVD releases. Our consciences ache even worse after today's revelation of a fascinating production memo by Kinkade himself, the evangelical "Painter of Light" whose 16-point missive for…
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Between Ellen DeGeneres' monologue attack and Jack Black's follow-up, operatic threats about bludgeoning sentimental Best Actor upset candidate Peter O'Toole to death with his Nickelodeon award, the antediluvian performer had already suffered enough indignities in the course of his winless Oscar night, but now a…
· Oscar parties aren't just self-indulgent opportunities for winners to kick off their heels and skip La Dolce Vita-style through fudge-spewing fountains; they can also raise big bucks for charities, such as Elton John's AIDS Foundation, and the Motion Picture & Television Fund, which will raise $7.5 million with…
· The London Film Critics' Circle awarded The Queen its top British film and director awards, United 93 best film and director, and Volver best foreign film, rendering us completely and utterly lost. [Variety]
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· Actor Tim Robbins confronted Reliable Source columnist Lloyd Grove at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, because Grove recently quoted Robbins' mother-in-law (mother of wife actress/activist Susan Sarandon) as saying Sarandon had brainwashed her kids. Robbins to Grove: "If you ever write about my family again, I will…
