That same year he played the kindly Friar Laurence in Franco
Zeffirelli’s resplendent film adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” and the
mad scientist Durand Durand in Roger Vadim’s “Barbarella,” a
science-fiction fantasy set in the far future, in which he tries to make
the comely astronaut Barbarella (Jane Fonda) die of pleasure.
A decade later a group of rock musicians in Birmingham, England, named
their new band Duran Duran — dropping the final d’s — in honor of Mr.
O’Shea’s character. A popular nightclub where the group played was
called Barbarella’s. When Duran Duran made a concert video in 1984,
“Arena (An Absurd Notion),” Mr. O’Shea appeared in it dressed as his
“Barbarella” character.
You learn something new every day.
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