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On 2017-12-17 12:55 PM, Casa del Sol naciente wrote:
> On 12/17/2017 12:47 PM, graham wrote:
>> On 2017-12-17 11:10 AM, Casa del Sol naciente wrote:
>>> On 12/17/2017 11:04 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>> "Casa del Sol naciente" > wrote in message
>>>> news >>>>> On 12/17/2017 7:17 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> Oh, Cheei, I don't know if we can be beasties after all...your
>>>>>>> favorite movie ends
>>>>>>> with the title character being drawn and quartered?
>>>>>>> {{{{shudder}}}}. History be
>>>>>>> damned, I don't need to see it on the big screen....even if only
>>>>>>> implied.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Happy holidays! ;-))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> N.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LOL, it's everything in between too...and I also love Anne of A
>>>>>> Thousand Days. ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And..."The Lion In Winter"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I love the TLIW!
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I had a feeling, some absurdly great acting there...
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cHYDyUxe24

>>
>> And yet he was passed over by the Oscar voters.

>
>
> So very many times...
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...n-history.html
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>
> As Peter O'Toole dies at the age of 81, Tim Robey gives his verdict on
> the film career of an actor disappointed a record eight times at the
> Academy Awards
>
> Lifestyle punishment perhaps?
>
> And Burton too?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od9U...96dAVF&index=2
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> http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-o...times-10956108
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> Did missing out on an Oscar 7 times make Richard Burton Hollywood's
> unluckiest actor? In the ratio of screen time to trophy wins Burton
> seems to have been robbed - but was he?
>
>

Both were very great actors - not that it bothers me much. Famous actors
these days are accorded an obscene level of reverence when it was not
that long ago when they were so low on the social ladder that only the
public executioner was lower.