heather_m1986 — 16 years ago(June 20, 2009 07:38 AM)

Peter O'Toole has a story to tell about Peter Finch which occurred while Peter was making Girl With Green Eyes.
"When Finchie was on location in Dublin, we were refused a drink at the bar one night, because they said it was too late. Because it was too late to be served a drink, we decided the only way to get one was to buy the bar; so we wrote out a cheque for it on the spot. But the barman found Finchie and I so inept as bartenders that he was only too happy to give up his role as a customer, and serve us drinks. The following morning we realised what we'd done, went to the pub, and the barman very sweetly hadn't cashed the cheque."
"We became great friends from then on, but alas the barman died, and his wife invited Finchie and I to the funeral. Try to visualize this: Finchie and I kneeling at a graveside outside Dublin, the coffin being lowered gently down into its final resting place, both of us sobbing copiously and noisily."
"In the middle of this paroxysm of grief, Finchie turned away, unable any longer to look at the box containing our departed friend. I caught his look of total amazement and followed his gaze. We were at the wrong funeral our man was being buried a hundred yards away! The grief was there, but the object of our emotion had gone disastrously astray. I can't tell you why, but that little memory will always symbolize Finchie for me."
From: The Rita Tushingham Home Page http://members.cox.net/rjd0309/tush/1961.htm