PETER O'TOOLE+

I met Peter and chatted a bit at the Toronto film Festival in 1977. I was host of the Hospitality suite. Donald Sutherland approached me. He knew me from the 22. He said he had Peter o'toole with him and they had never met before. Would I arrange a private place where they could talk. I opened one of the bedrooms and set up a little bar for them.a bit later he came in the Club 22 at the windsor Arms one night I was at the next booth and he nodded at me as he went by. He had his girlfriend/keeper with him. she ordered him a shirley temple like something or the other and he waited patiently until she went to the washroom. he called the waiter and ordered 2 no 4 no 6 shots of rum and finished them all before she got back to the table.

RICK MCARTHY

Rick McCarthy

I knew Rick since 1965.

We were next-door neighbours for a year in Toronto. I had several artworks of his that were lost when I lost my house.

I knew Rick in his drinking days. He could be obnoxious and rowdy 

As it was he found my after-hours bar and drank on a never pay Tab . I didn't really care too much until one night. He drank a snoot full and vomited all over the floor. Now I ran a place for drunks and i had the equipment to clean it up which i did quickly. I didn't really get upset until he cleaned himself up sat back on the bar stool and turned to the person beside him and said" I think they put something in the drinks here."

It was then that I threw him out and barred him.

I ran into him a few years later. He had quit drinking and after spending an afternoon with him I much preferred him when he was drinking.

anyway, it seems he is still at it, and good for him.

Canadian artist Rick McCarthy was born in Montreal, Quebec in September 1941, lives in Toronto, and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art in 1963. His artwork includes multi-media figurative paintings and drawings ranging from Renaissance-like figures to figurative abstraction.

Rick McCarthy's artwork has been shown at notable places such as the Art Avenue Gallery. Rick McCarthy's artwork is in art collections throughout Canada and the United States.

I was the Lobsterman and sang the Lobster Song with Maclean and Maclean