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Peter O’Toole on Sir Michael Redgrave as King Lear, the performance that was said to have interested O’Toole in acting: “I was bumming around with a friend and we blew our last shillings to see Michael--and he was mighty. We had to spend that night in a haystack. At least, we thought it was a haystack. It turned out to be a dung heap.”