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I Wish I Had An Oscar Golden Statue

Shakespeare's Sister wants to know:

Fill in the blank: When the fuck is ___________ going to win an Oscar?

She fills in the blank with Don Cheadle. I fill it in with Peter O'Toole.

Yes, that's right. Peter O'Toole has never won an Oscar.

No, that lame-ass "Lifetime Achievement Because We Should Have Given You An Oscar Oh Only About 7 Times Now" award doesn't count.

"Lawrence of Arabia"
"Becket"
"The Lion in Winter"
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
"The Ruling Class"
"The Stuntman"
"My Favorite Year"

I'm pretty sure he's going to be nominated this year for "Venus". My prediction is that he'll win it out of the "Holy shit, we've fucked this up so many times before" guilt factor, much the way Paul Newman finally won for "The Color of Money". Which is not to say that O'Toole will deserve it for this particular role. But fuckin' A, you morons at the Academy cannot let him die without winning a real Oscar.

Posted by Lesley on January 4, 2007 09:04 PM |

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Amen! Cheadle is damn good too, but in Academy time, which obviously runs much slower than real time, he's just not as overdue as O'Toole. Not that I want Cheadle to have to wait until he's in his 70s or 80s, either, but I know how the Academy likes to do.

Posted by: Ilyka [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 4, 2007 09:26 PM

Yeah, Cheadle is great, but O'Toole should have first won for a role he played before I was born! Before Don Cheadle was born too, as it turns out Cheadle is a few months younger than I am.

Posted by: Lesley [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 4, 2007 09:41 PM

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