O'Toole to Star Again with Sharif; Calls Troy Director a Kraut
Peter's in the news again - he's starring with his old friend Omar Sharif in "One Night with the King" - no, it's not about Elvis. Still in production, the film is slated for release in 2005.
From the press release:
"The film chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, played by newcomer Tiffany Dupont. Dupont portrays the rags-to-riches heroine who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia (400–322 B.C.), who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy Haman (played by James Callis) while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes, played by Luke Goss.
Links: PR Leap; Guardian UnlimitedUK
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He's listed at #22, behind other UK actors Anthony Hopkins (6th), Sean Connery (13), Ian McKellen (15), Alan Rickman (19), Christopher Lee (16) and Judi Dench (20).
NY Daily News covers O'Toole at Savannah Film Festival:
"The 71-year-old Oscar-winner has been communing with the dead down at the just-wrapped Savannah Film Festival. The impish Irishman made a nighttime visit to the St. Bonaventure Cemetery, where he did a little jig at the grave of composer Johnny Mercer while singing Mercer's "Jeepers Creepers."
Fortified with red wine, O'Toole also had a merry time testing film critic Roger Ebert and actor Jason Patric on their knowledge of William Butler Yeats' poetry as they walked to a party. (The three-block walk took 45 minutes.)"
O'Toole calls Wolfgang Peterson a Kraut (femalefirst.co.uk)
"Veteran actor Peter O'Toole has unleashed a severe attack on the director of his last film, 'Troy'.
According to Femalefirst, he has reportedly rendered the epic movie as a "a disaster" and has branded German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen "a clown."
"Ugh, what a disaster. The director, that kraut, what a clown he was," he said when asked about the movie at the Savannah Film Festival.
"When it was all over, I watched 15 minutes of the finished movie and then walked out," he added.(ANI)"
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