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Being There is excellent. :) Understated and beguiling, like Chance himself. Sure, the film is a little slow, but again that fits in with Chance's personality. What a great character! I instantly liked him. It would take a heart of stone not to be affected by this simple-minded and decent guy. As a Peter Sellers movie, I prefer Being There to any of the Pink Panther opuses. I was thinking it was his last movie, but I checked and saw that he then starred in the awful Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) before he died. I remember actually going to that movie as a kid, and boy did it bore me. Far better to have Being There serve as capstone to Sellers's career and as final testament to his comic brilliance.

Btw, I finally saw a TV ad for Steve Martin's Pink Panther. It's hideous. Just hideous. Who does he think he's kidding?
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Being There and The Party - two Seller classics.
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In 1971, Jerzy Kosinski published the novel Being There. Soon afterwards he received a telegram from its lead character, Chance the Gardener: "Available in my garden or outside of it." A telephone number followed and when Kosinski dialed it

Peter Sellers answered.

For years afterwards, Sellers would try to get this film made. "That's me!" he would tell people of the Chance character. He hawked the idea of a film to whomever he could find. Finally, in 1979, with the clout he had gained from the Pink Panther series, he was able to fulfill his dream.

What followed was the culmination of Peter Sellers' career: a masterpiece of double-edged satire on politics and television. But Kosinki's screenplay goes deeper than that. What he and director Hal Ashby expose is a self-serving and self-deceived society. Through the innocence of the Chance character, all the schemes and manipulations of the world are laid bare for what they are: pure folly. For those who hunger for the truths in life, this is a film that will satisfy your appetite.
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great story, Ez!! i've never seen Being There...now i think i'll just put it into my Netflix queue!!! thanks! :biggrin:


oh!!! edit: ger just googled up a trailer for Being There!!! Looks FAbulous!!!
can't believe i never saw this movie!!! (with my dad being a HUGE Peter Sellers fan and all!)
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Shirley MacLaine's masturbation scene was shot seventeen times.
Laurence Olivier was offered the role of Benjamin Rand, but passed when he read the completed script. He said he didn't want to be in a movie where Shirley MacLaine has to masturbate.
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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Being There was great; at least, the little bits of it I've seen is great. I don't like 'Casino Royale' nearly as much, but I've heard good things about 'The Mouse That Roared'. My favs are the Pink Panther movies and Dr. Strangelove.
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Julie wanted me to mention that the Panther previews might put off people who have never seen the original. now that would suck.
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Sgt Null,do you have a liscaunce for that minkey?
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sorry, i was being attacked by my manservant...
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I fially saw the trailer the other night......truly truly awful....

I have enjoyed Steve Martin's work but I have to admit being very selective about what have chosen to watch.

Peter Sellers is Clousseau. I watched a bio pic of him on HBO last summer but can't remember what is was called. It had Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron in it - thought it was pretty good.
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I didn't mind Martin's Clousseau. I think any weaknesses were the writing, rather than the acting. And even that wasn't terrible. Certainly not as good as the best of the material that was written for Sellers, but it was pretty good.
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:offtopic: :highjacked:


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:yeehaa:
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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:lol: looks like we scared em off, pahdna! :yeehaa:
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:bang: :yeehaa: :bang:
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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