Best of Old Hollywood Drinking Stories & Buddies (O'Toole, Harris, Caine, Reed, Moon)

I [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] we don't sit I Oh [Music] someone asked me what's the it was between you saying Tom Cruise and people like that when Tom Cruise a major star you were a major star I sense a great difference I said see a photograph go back on the old days and you see me going to one of my premieres I had a bottle of vodka in my hand Tom Cruise got a bottle of abiud water that's the difference bottle of avian water they say that Guinness is an aphrodisiac I have not found it to be so well I know that you eat it well the only thing the Guinness gets up is your hopes you know I want to ask you because because you do have you know I alluded to it before they you have a reputation as as do many of the great actress of your generation of drinking some while you work or as you work especially in the theater world and I was curious is that really true is there you know I wouldn't it be terrible for me to lie on your show and say yeah I remember I tell you a great story to tell you a story well that's sort of what these shows are all about this dump tails nicely for us yeah go ahead we had the two guys who we were there were three of us legends for drinking and for having a your roughly I've had a wild rather lazy in life one was Richard Burton of course he's row to the great O'Toole and Harris and Oh Tula Oh doing I do to play together down in Bristol Old Vic which is very famous stood at theatres in England and we have enduring the play there's about 15 to 20 minutes when actually we're not on stage so every single night we come offstage together - across the street doctor taxis into the bar and we be throwing back beers and beers watching the time making sure they got back on time for our cue right huh well one night we got so engrossed in telling stories that we forgot that we were on stage and the next minute this the door bursts open and the stage the stage manager came rushing on us said Paris - for god sake you you know mr. fool I was waiting for you to play his stop get come on we dropped our drink quickly down our throat so we danced across the street we were ducking taxis talking this and that I dashed it I had to make my entrance just before him as I hit the stage door over the tonight I heard my cue I thought I'll never make it - doctors just dashed across pause on stage Harris is not on O'Toole is not on I just dashed on tripped over a wire slid right across the stage right down to the footlights and hung over onto the lap of toured three sort of Bristow lean old women I know - was - come on next and this woman looked at me in shock as my sort of head was in her lap and she said out loud good [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and I loved her as I said Madame if you think I've dropped Whitlow to live we were children of the war we came from the war we wanted to grab life like that while it was there because we saw too much death we read about too much death let's drink as much as we can let's have as much sex as we can let's have as much relationship with women as we can and whenever other enjoyment is out there let's grab it let's make life a festival of total abandonment and do what we like because it could end tomorrow that was our psyche that was my generation before he was 50 he'd been in intensive care five times and had the last rites read by a Franciscan monk he said what would you like he said I think it's wise why don't you just have a last confession I'll give you the last rites and you'll feel at peace I said I'm at peace already I'm a wonderful time in my life I said father do you want to hear my confession he said yes I said pull up a chair because you're going to be here for hours he's wrong what I said and I promise you this as a father by the time you hear my full confession you will wish that you hadn't take the vow of celibacy you would love to have had my life he said well let's do a general confession are you sorry for you since I am obviously often you run out the door first guest is a seven-time Academy Award nominee his films include my favorite year Becket and of course Lawrence of Arabia please folks welcome one of the all-time great actors Peter O'Toole [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] excusa my noble transport is a little thirsty [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] richard harris has been on our show many many times in new york city he's always delightful always charming always has great stories and sometimes the ax stories about you and I was wondering if if tonight maybe you happen to have a story about richard harris Oh shuffle through my memory clean whatever you want this is British TV go nuts haha Oh in the old days and witches and I were young poor ah he lived in the desert little spot in Earls Court it was a cupboard I fancy with you and one that we've been frolicking what does that mean let me stop you right there when you say frolicking what are we talking about what is it kind of joy soon bird really an F no although we'd finished our frolicking and I thought I was living nowhere in particular so I thought I might as well Kip on Richards floor or is sure or even if he was too drunk I could keep in the bed didn't really matter and we got back to this little filthy spot of his in escort and that we were hungry and not hungry for beer or whiskey a meal harness meal hungry huh yeah so we opened the freezer and inside there was one chopped pork chop identity was a pork chop or a lamb chop or what kind of chocolate oh I'm gonna pretend it was a pork chop there was this old pork kosher pork chop ancient clearly be in there for quite a long time not as safely as a camel so we smelt it looked at it and thought better of it we were so we threw it through a window came the morning we left his hole and [Laughter] under the window from which we've thrown the pork chop there was a dead dog [Laughter] [Applause] my dear friend Richard Harris tells the same story his version it's a cat whole different deal which will show you what condition Richard was in Oh thought it might have been a cab yeah by either way it's a lovely story didn't you do some some really strange escapades you and a tool and some of your oh yeah your buddies yeah there was once upon a time and Peter O'Toole and my 75% of our body weight was vodka and tonic and what what did you do and I've stopped drinking down to wake up with the body could not come to yes he did you do something really outrageous well I remember Peter and I were great friends from the beginning as actors and I remembered one great story teller sure great story O'Toole and I I was like I'm asked to do a play in the West End called ball written by Bertolt Brecht and I thought I was all wrong for it that I shouldn't play because the part is kind of what is small little eleph Antigua I thought it was quite handsome yet I mean yeah and so I was amazed when I said no - no - decided to do it and I thought he's gonna make he Lawrence of Arabia just come out and I thought this is a disastrous move for more tools point of view why would he want to do something like this that he can't really play so I thought well he and the reviews were wonderful when he came out and I thought I'd have to go and see this play because I can't believe he's Gooden it so I didn't want to go as Richard Harris because the front of house manager will tell O'Toole that Harris is there so I went to a customer and I got dressed as a Roman Catholic priest and I went there on a mate of mine and bought a chicken they set up in the gallery dressed as a priest with you know with the bravery and the rosary breeds in the Hat and they okarin ala and I'm watching O'Toole and every act he's better and better and by the end of the play he's unbelievably brilliant so I have to go back and tell him he's great but I can't go back dressed as a priest he'd asked me why I get one of those means here so I said to my friend swap clothes give me your suit you take the priests outfit I will swap well the next day in one of the newspapers The Daily Express said there was commotion during the matinee a Peter O'Toole's ball where a Roman Catholic was seen to undress in the gallery sound back and I saw tool with this guy's clothes on and he never said a word he obviously found out he never said a word seven years later I have a hit record thanks to you MacArthur Park which I did here for the first time went to number 21 to number one and hi and I decided to go out on a one-man concert tour and I go up to the north of England where no one can see me break it in okay taking it on the road on the road way up in Scunthorpe now even scorpions don't know where it's gone for peace so I went out and I'm doing this show breaking my show in coming into the West End and I'm singing a song and I hear commotion out in the back of the hall so I stopped the orchestra I said what's going on out there and a voice said I'm Peter O'Toole and here dressed as a nun [Applause] later we waited we waited over here I left America seven years I'd been in a pub and in London I got thrown out of it so I was so angry I thought there was I'd get a drink probably on a train so I got onto a train and got off at its top that was Leeds very late I was like one o'clock Lamar I was wandering down the street a solid light and a window on it through pebbles up the window and this woman came and said you have what you want and I said could I have a drink she should have said this isn't Lourdes you know if you're looking for that cure go somewhere else but but she recognized me and said come on in and I spent I think four days there I have to go the whole way or it doesn't work for me and I suppose that's what I don't know where I got it but that's my life my life has been that has been compulsively excessive are of the school and perhaps that the the heritage and the the time we're drinking was just something you did when you weren't doing anything else is that a fair way to express it and when you were doing something else [Applause] and when when you would go out for an evening anything ever untoward happened like would you the next day would you wake up in a I mean how did that work many men well there's one in particular which I'm fond of is my my my friend the late Peter Finch and we were in Dublin together on the lash lash that means usually having a drop of something cheerful I see and then doing a lot of leaping and shrieking and saying Ryan awesome and Finch he was livid living about a few miles out of Dublin and I went back with him to his house we were gonna spend the night and it was not too late about for --is-- 4 a.m. here and there was a tiny little hole in the wall bar and we thought we'd just drop in for the last one where we went in and we had a couple of drinks and the barman and Brittini littles really dead is the place he said boys you had enough you're having no more so finchy and I said no no no no no no no no no we're very much more no no no no no this is he you're out so we bought the bar problem-solve [Applause] the following morning my work ever since she said you know we did last night night I said no no no he said we bought a bar so immediately on the telephone to cancel checks but they're not being cashed so we went to the bar and there was a man with the two checks and he said now you two boys gonna behave yourself and we fell for him I mean he was such a sweet guy and he hadn't bothered cash he gave of the checks back and we tall enough about a year later we'd be used to we used to pop in there every night on the way back to finish place but a year later [Laughter] a year later he died so finchy and I went over to Ireland for the funeral and because we got to know him a little bit and his family went to thee to the the cemetery and there was his group around the grave the family sobbing noisily and finchy and I joined them on our knees and butt-whoopin came up and tapped me on the shoulder and we were at the wrong grave it all counts [Applause] Oh [Laughter] [Applause] had you at any time during your life speaking of that at any time during your life have you have you thought what you might like as a final message on your tombstone oh yes oh yes it's arrived in the 60s I had a an old leather jacket er which I was inordinately fond that it was covered in Guinness and blood the usual yes and I sent it off to the cleaner my wife sent it off to the cleaner and it came back and pinned on it was a Sycamore cleaners it de-stresses us to return work which is not perfect so I'm having out on my tombstone [Laughter] that's my exit ah lovely what about Peter O'Toole who has been on this show many times and he's just a walking catalog and great stories what have you you must have I know you've worked with him I have that was a great film yeah but but I started out in the theater and I was an understudy to Peter when he became a big star in a play called the long and short the tall and I was his understudy and we both used to drink a lot then which neither of us do you don't drink it although I do I drink something other yeah every now and then but you always have to have a first course if you don't drink you have to have a first course before you can have a glass of alcohol because if it hits an empty stomach you see it's like you smashed over the head yeah when you were really in the top physical condition for drinking what what you know when you were really in shape I know what you mean yet what are we talking about in terms of quantity what were we consuming here well I wound up on at one point I could I could do two bottles of vodka a day I know O'Toole O'Toole was on return just one bottle of brandy huh but you gotta remember this is on an empty stomach we are remember one weekend Oh Saturday night we finished this show this is the show where I was his understudy and we all went out and we won't we woke up fully clothed next to each other in a bed eventually and we couldn't remember where we'd been and and this was Saturday night so and a girl came in and we said where are we she said your enhanced it which is like out it's like saying the Kip see here we repeated you could wake up in and when we and Peter looked at his watch he said oh he said it's a it's only five o'clock in the evening you know he said and I said wait doesn't matter about the show because it's Sunday and the girl said it's Monday and somewhere in my life there is a Sunday missing and I never went out with Peter again and at that time there was a place you know when you give a bum a dollar and they say would give me a dollar for a cup of coffee or a sandwich or something there was a place in Leicester Square where those bums used to go and buy their sandwiches and coffee gives you an idea to sort of place it is and when we got back to the theatre there was a notice on the theater called board which said that Peter and I were banned for this Plitt from this place for life and I wonder what you had to do to get bad but we never found out I won't ever told it or no no no I really use you we bring you on the last five minutes the corny fails there was one serious contender for Richard Harris his position as number one Hellraiser in the acting world to see who was top dog the contender challenged Harris to a boxing match at the Albert Hall the challenger was Oliver Reed Oliver Reed is considered by many to be the hellraisers Hellraiser he more than anyone before or since turned hell-raising into mass-market entertainment the door burst open and Oliver Reed walks in I don't know I realized he was such a big guy big big guy he look like a big bear walking in he orders a drink and he's some sunny mother Barney's leaving that's it history looks right it looks at me he goes oh I see tattoos oh he's legless he's gonna start on me and he goes I have a tattoo oh really and he goes would you let me see you my tattoo and I said well I think expecting to show me a [ __ ] anchors oh honey I'm sure he gets his dick out he's got a I didn't really take that much of a look what he had a tattoo on the end of his dick and he sits there in the bar and strength yeah 104 pints in 24 hours that was beer I presume there was 48 hours that's all right yes with a twinkle in his eye became Britain's best-loved chat show guests I can't give us him John music I'll see what I need from an actor isn't for an actor to be an entertainer and that's all I try to be throughout my life sometimes I do it for a little money and sometimes I suppose I do it for more money than people should ever conclude that I should earn until such time as that system changes I will continue to make films of Glenda Jackson besides that she's got great knockers if you're again to be privileged enough to behave like a gorilla or a monkey or I didn't mean to interrupt your hello tittering girl thingy Bing Bing Bing Bing fooled your missus spring 1974 in his sorry mansion Oliver Reed is taking a late morning bath when he's disturbed by an earth-shattering sound he looks out of his window to see his horses going crazy he looks up and sees the cause of the commotion a helicopter containing Keith Moon his trusty companion Peter Butler and the swedish blond all I can remember is fawning by le copter and Oliver Reed out on his rooftop this 12 volt shotgun we were scared keith was scared and almost as well and the part that [ __ ] himself so we go around and land on a back field and soon as we got out of the plane oh he's [ __ ] self the party's gone whoo we were in there with some trepidation and especially made I think Moni and I've got Oliver read these so could sort of go together and explode [Music] but Sir they didn't and I just it was like a match made in heaven and he just put out exam welcome to the house there boys come through and that was it we stayed for three nights it was very strange Keith he was one night he phoned me up and he used to some reason fill his room full of Swedish models and working at it arrived that I'd never networked with a pop group before but it's true about the ladies he phoned me up one night and he said also wander was obvious had a pillow on his face any Cydia give me I am with his television set so I so I got her but I got one end of the television the ladies were over that side and we went over he went over to the window and he threw it out of the window and the porter ran out to the hotel what are you doing and Mooney says answer the phone he says order radios coming next during a Copenhagen and we're doing a show there and I got to my ramen and I was that I was lucky enough to be the only member of the 32 member entourage that we carry with us to have a waterbed and I thought terrific and I phoned up my own personal boys and said what we're gonna do is to pick up this - Tong waterbed two tons of water put it in the lift send it up two floors and when the lift doors open on the ninth floor it would just crash straight on all these American tourists so that was a plan we've got it out and we Bend you over and it's split and I'll forget how many hundreds of gallons of water was in this thing I'm sitting out the water came up to there next thing the water went shoots and we all went oh [ __ ] and the ceiling in the room below and given where say when bit was okay have you ever smashed up a hotel room yes well three in one fell swoop [Laughter] [Music] Oh my car [Music] [Applause] would it take them straight up I got a coffee thank you very much enjoy the day Lords [Music]

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Id: 57UeR9ZrzF0

Length: 28min 28sec (1708 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2018