![]() ![]() The co-stars couldn’t understand why the women at a Cairo brothel held little compliance on a night where O’Toole spent nine month’s pay. The dulled senses once resulted in an unforgettable night with Omar Sharif during the filming of Lawrence Arabia. “At a Lawrence of Arabia cast dinner in 1962, O’Toole became so drunk and offensive – fighting with guests, throwing champagne, fondling bottoms – that his friend and co-star Alec Guinness later wrote: ‘O’Toole could have been killed – shot, strapped or strangled – and I’m beginning to think it’s a pity he wasn’t,’” wrote GQ in “Peter O’Toole: Secrets of a Sexual Outlaw revealed.” Good looks a given, blue eyes that could almost dim the sky were his gateway, and according to Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince’s dubious (and often discredited) book, Peter O’Toole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel, O’Toole slept with over a thousand woman, these include an eight-year affair with Princess Margaret and sporadic dalliances with Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister. Not to worry, Peter O’Toole definitely stacked up in his own right. “I got drunk in Paris and woke up in Corsica,” he once said. There was even a two-way ceiling mirror that allowed this cadre of Caligulas to get on top – so to speak. According to the most salacious gossip, even David Niven was among them, and Flynn’s yacht and favorite flat, “Cirrhosis-by-the-Sea,” played host to numerous orgies and cocaine/alcohol fueled parties. It doesn’t work, never will.”ĭuring his own early marriages, there was no shortage of fellow travelers to join him. After all, this one-time Spanish Civil War journalist turned movie star carried such daring philosophical musings as, “The Christian concept of monogamy is to me nothing more than a travesty of human nature. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, once catching the eye of a British producer and landing at Warner Bros., he did all he could to keep those wanting at a minimum. No matter, Flynn’s unraveling was encased in the charismatic good looks that put women at his mercy and left his unquenchable sexual appetite rarely unfed the Tasmanian-born devil glided through life and into so many hearts with films like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Captain Blood (1935), and for amorous effect, Olivia De Havilland stood in eight times for so many ladies left yearning. I’d say all the lines and unconsciously, I knew it would get through to his head.” Actually, I whispered into his ear when he was asleep. All he wanted was booze and to fool around. Max Liebman assigned me to him and said, ‘Get him into rehearsal! Make him learn his lines! Work with him on the sketch!’ Errol Flynn was a raving maniac. He was a tough guy to corral and get to rehearsals. I was 20-years-old and just starting with Your Show of Shows. For three days I was trying to get them out of there and he was trying to get me drunk and in there. I was locked in the Waldorf Towers with Errol Flynn and two red-headed, Cuban sisters. My company made it, and I made sure that we were telling the truth. Howard in a 1997 Film Score Monthly interview, Brooks said: Mel Brooks, for his part, sticks with the film’s party line. While chatting with Jeffrey K. And with My Favorite Year, both men find their legacies seemingly joined, with Flynn and his fictional counterpart in one Alan Swann apparently being the bigger and more star-studded trainwreck. These were both men known to enjoy a drink or liaison a little too often, and they are both men whose legacy intermingles the extravagant with the illicit. In this context, O’Toole’s own booze-soaked notoriety seemed to inform and reflect the onscreen satire and romance of Errol Flynn’s own infamy. The delivery of Stone’s Jewish induced neurotic background provides a crucial aspect of the comedy, especially as we visit Brooklyn and feel as though the dialogue dished by the actors was typical of any given Saturday night. ![]() Within this universe, Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) is among those trying to make his mark and babysitting O’Toole’s Alan Swann is yet another stumbling block in his hopes for ascent amidst the chaos. My Favorite Year definitely captures the moment and the Wild West beginnings of network television. ![]()
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