Peter O’Toole turns down an honorary Oscar.
“O’Toole sent a handwritten open letter to the academy saying he was ‘enchanted’ by the gesture, but insisting that he is ‘still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright.'”
O’Toole certainly has a way with words. A friend at high school dated Peter O’Toole’s daughter. O’Toole had a nickname for him: ‘the C**t.’, he would open the door and wave him in with ‘ah, its the C**t’.
United Press International: Peter O’Toole: Not time for Honorary Oscar