Lawrence of Arabia Articles

Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Lawrence of Arabia Turner Classic Movies' "Race and Hollywood: Arab Images on Film" continues this evening with four movies about European powers and their difficult relationship with "the Arab races": Lawrence of Arabia, Lion of the Desert, The Four Feathers, and Young Winston. In David Lean's sprawling Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole is a much taller version of T. E. Lawrence, [...]

Peter O'Toole in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole on TCM: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE LAST EMPEROR Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, The (1960) Turn-of-the-century Irish patriots plan to overthrow the British government. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars. Dir: John Guillermin. BW-85 mins. 4:30 AM Night of the Generals, The [...]

Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 28. TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" series has only four more days to go. [Peter O'Toole schedule.] O'Toole isn't one of my favorite actors — I usually find his acting, well, actorish — but he is one of the favorite actors of a whole lot of [...]

Zoe Saldana in Avatar AVATAR: #20 at the Domestic Box Office (Inflation Adjusted) If 3D/IMAX surcharges are factored in, Avatar would drop quite a bit on Box Office Mojo’s inflation-adjusted chart. As I’ve explained in the comments section of a previous Avatar post, the 3D/IMAX premiums can add somewhere between 25-30 and 40 percent to Avatar’s grosses. Most other movies, including the vast majority of [...]