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Pastimes : Who Won't Be Down For Breakfast?

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Peter O'Toole dies at 81; nominated eight times for best-actor Oscar
Acclaimed for stage and film roles in a career spanning 50-plus years, Peter O'Toole was best known for starring in 1962's epic "Lawrence of Arabia."

While making the film, O'Toole recalled, he and Sharif would "film nonstop for 10 days and then have three or four days off.

"We had the use of a private plane to fly to Beirut — this was in its better days — and misbehaved ourselves appallingly! Terribly! Omar loved gambling, too, so we'd lose all our money at the casino — we once did about nine months' wages in one night — and then get up to the usual things young men get up to."

But the long months playing the role of Lawrence took a toll on the actor.

"Lawrence!" O'Toole cried, tossing back a slug of Scotch during a 1963 interview in a Dublin hotel bar with writer Gay Talese for Esquire magazine. "I became obsessed by that man, and it was bad.

"A true artist should be able to jump into a bucket of [excrement] and come out smelling of violets, but I spent ...

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