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An Oscar role for O'Toole

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February 27, 2007 Send To A Friend  | Print View

Anybody attending the races at Plainridge Raceourse might check the office of general manager Steve O'Toole to see if an Oscar is sitting on his desk as the former horseman had a cameo appearance in "The Departed," the motion picture that won an Oscar Sunday night as 2006's Best Picture of the Year.

O'Toole can be seen driving a winner in a past race at Plainridge on a TV screen in the background during a barroom brawl scene. According to a story in Tuesday's The Sun Chronicle in Massachusetts, Plainridge CEO Gary Piontkowski supplied the race footage to Warner Bros. after receiving a phone call from an assistant to director Martin Scorsese--who also won an Oscar for Best Director--in April 2005.

"The night it opened, I got a call from one of the guys who said, 'Hey I just saw you in a movie.' I couldn't believe it," O'Toole told the newspaper. "I went to see the movie myself and thought he must really have eagle eyes because if you blink you miss it."

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