Far Cough 9:37 Tue Mar 22
Peter Sellers
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Brilliant actor. comedian, impressionist and musician or mad manipulative, womanising, egotistical bastard?
Just finished watching Peter Sellers the interviews, very interesting
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kylay
3:28 Thu Mar 24
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Flea 10:41 Wed Mar 23
one of the best films ever made.
I'll have to check out "Being There." Not seen enough of Sellers work.
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simon.s
1:49 Thu Mar 24
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Being There, was a fantastic film, and apparently he based Chance on Stan Laurel.
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Bromley Reject
7:57 Wed Mar 23
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Sellers to Milligan along to buy a motor in South London. Sellers was just becoming highly successful as an actor and the Jewish car salesman was apparently all over him "You'll love it Mr Sellern, I say, love it" Sellers and Milligan took the car for a test drive and a few miles later Milligan noticed they were heading ominously in the direction of Brighton. "What about the car salesman?" Milligan asks Sellers. "Oh fuck him. Did you hear what he kept calling me? Mr Bloody Sellern" They got back late afternoon, the car salesman apparently having called the Police, and Sellers told the car salesman he liked the motor but he'd have to sell one of his others first. Spike Milligan described the incident as one of the many when people ended up on "the Peter Sellers scrapheap"
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Council Scum
6:37 Wed Mar 23
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I remember reading the story years ago that Milligan set Bentine up to fence a polish Olympic gold medal winner when they were on set one day and Bentine beat him, Milligan hated him even more then
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stomper
6:36 Wed Mar 23
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If you read Mussolini, his part in my downfall you'll know why. There's some good biographies out there why show that he played down his shell shock and insanity.
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Takashi Miike
6:35 Wed Mar 23
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I loved Potty Time, brilliant series
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Far Cough
6:31 Wed Mar 23
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Milligan hated everyone didn't he?
Proper nut job as well
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Council Scum
6:28 Wed Mar 23
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Micheal Bentine was the true genius
Did most of the writing for Sellers, helped set up the SAS counter terrorism wing and trained with them as he was a crack shot and also a brilliant fencer, he got driven out of the goons because Milligan hated him because he was so good at everything he did
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Far Cough
6:21 Wed Mar 23
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Fair enough then
"If I Ruled the World"
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stomper
6:17 Wed Mar 23
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Far Cough
Read it again, I said Genius of Spike, Sellers and Bentine
The talent of Secombe. He made a perfect victim and I reckon putting up with that bunch of nutters must have been a talent in itself
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Far Cough
10:44 Wed Mar 23
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Genius of Harry Secombe?
I must have missed that then, probably the weakest member of the Goons
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Flea
10:41 Wed Mar 23
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Dr Strangelove, my favourite movie he ever made.
Watch The Party again the other night and I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
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normannomates
2:10 Wed Mar 23
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Peckham massive
Agree about 'Being There'
I remember watching it by chance and 10 minutes in thinking it wasn't up to much...but like you...happens to be one of my favourite films alongside Cool hand luke
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Stranded
1:58 Wed Mar 23
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If you fancy a rather depressing, but interesting watch, try this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8M8hL-OWA
It's a 1969 documentary made by Spike Milligan: Will The Real Mr. Sellers Please Stand Up. Like I said, not exactly a bundle of laughs, but interesting.
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stomper
1:47 Wed Mar 23
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On the other side the genius of Spike would probably never been recognized without the genius of Sellers, Bentine and the talent of Secombe
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joe blob
12:53 Wed Mar 23
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Him and Harry Secombe were riding on the back of the genius of Spike Milligan
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westhammerer
12:21 Wed Mar 23
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I suppose someone has recalled his famous quote when having a heart attack whilst pleasuring Britt Ekland: "I didn't know if I was coming or going."
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Alex Bunbury
12:20 Wed Mar 23
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Loved Being There. Could also watch certain clips from the Pink Panther films endlessly. In fact introduced my six year old to some of the clips on you tube and he loves them! Having said all that by all accounts Peter Sellers was a very unpleasant person.
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HairyHammer
12:18 Wed Mar 23
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Oh please don't tell me he is dead.
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Nurse Ratched
12:09 Wed Mar 23
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He sounds like a bog-standard narcissist. But you have to hand it to those buggers - they get things done.
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Darlo Debs
11:57 Tue Mar 22
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very flawed but very funny. The curse of so many of the good comedians and comic actors of the past.
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