Another Lassie Article.
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."