Growing up, I wanted to chronicle events and to become an event, as Peter O'Toole put it. So far, he's done both and I have done neither. So I just have to settle with watching events instead. Today's event is the death of Peter O'Toole. One knows whether a local star has become a global icon when his or her death becomes a big event watched all over the world, such that the death is no longer just a funeral, but a legacy. I wonder how the number of people watching the news about O'Toole's death looks, compared to that of Nelson Mandela...
CLICK: PETER O'TOOLE: THE ACTOR, THE STAR, THE LEGACY
These two faces and names have become the global events themselves. But they are also artists, man, and woman, just like you and me: artist, man, woman...They are symbols of beauty, but underneath, there is the man, and there is the woman. We love them, not only because of their beauty, and what's underneath. The only reason film is considered the seventh art is because film allows us, the watchers, to see WHAT'S UNDERNEATH. if filmgoers and filmmakers can just remember this, they will make films last longer than the few hours on a silver screen (or in today's environment, the computer screen). WND
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