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O'Toole's Svengali (with Jodie Foster, 1983) has been re-released on DVD, according to long-time reader Jeff Swindoll. Thanks for the heads-up, Jeff!
It's available at amazon.cm for $9.98, although deepdiscountdvd.com has it for $5.99!
Another upcoming O'Toole DVD re-release is What's New Pussycat (1965) - one of my favourite of Peter's british comedies. No word on extra features. It's slated for release on June 7th.
Peter O'Toole vs. Lassie (CHUD.com)
"About this time last year I had a chance to meet Peter O'Toole. It was at the press junket for Troy, and even though the room I was in was packed (Warners was doing the day mostly press conference style, which I hate), he took the time to walk around the room and meet every person in it. That's class. Also, he smoked in the non-smoking rooms because he's Peter Fucking O'Toole and unless you have a Cousin Balki you don't even try to tell him no.The guy's old. He's lived a helluva life and you can read it on his face. But the sad fact is that one of these days one of the movies he makes is going to be his last movie. And I hope that it isn't the upcoming Lassie film (I wonder if Raoul Julia is in heaven cursing his casting agent for making him go out with Street Fighter).In the new Lassie, based on the novel Lassie Come Home, O'Toole will play the Duke of Rudling, who buys Lassie from a poor family. When the collie is moved 500 miles away to the Duke's castle, he (she? I think the dog's a dude but always played by a bitch) runs away and has amazing adventures in England on the eve of WWII, trying to get home for Christmas."
BBC News UK: "Peter O'Toole and Samantha Morton have signed up to appear in a new Lassie film, to be shot in Ireland and the Isle of Man later this month.Lassie, directed by Britain's Charles Sturridge, will also star John Lynch, Jemma Redgrave and Steve Pemberton from TV comedy the League of Gentlemen.The cast also includes Rab C Nesbitt star Gregor Fisher.Sturridge also wrote the screenplay, based on Eric Knight's classic 1938 novel Lassie Come Home.Entertainment Film Distributors will distribute the film in the UK, according to reports from the Cannes film festival.Deals have also been reached in Japan, the Middle East and various territories in Europe.Plucky collie Lassie made his first screen appearance in 1943's Lassie Come Home, starring Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor.However, he has not been seen on the big screen since 1994.The new film is being produced by Firstsight Films, Classic Media and Ireland's Element Films, producers of Omagh and The Magdalene Sisters."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4541413.stm
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