ORSON WELLES, DAVID NIVEN & PETER SELLERS IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQf13eJ5t1CgTS0EXKqJO16KxpZ096e0_9cmwzcoiQg6whtSm6XFXSRvCZVCCHJB5o0dgZyVcw1soohqEXvxfyZZuEheh7P8df84U1oE0pJQOoARrioQfeB2RHKVx_Jd2h6fdVAnV9R15MWmcYWTWyrfzQvjSQfOrtwu5Em8xXu6RtOJfX2Woiv5wsg/s1414/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-04%20at%204.16.32%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQf13eJ5t1CgTS0EXKqJO16KxpZ096e0_9cmwzcoiQg6whtSm6XFXSRvCZVCCHJB5o0dgZyVcw1soohqEXvxfyZZuEheh7P8df84U1oE0pJQOoARrioQfeB2RHKVx_Jd2h6fdVAnV9R15MWmcYWTWyrfzQvjSQfOrtwu5Em8xXu6RtOJfX2Woiv5wsg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-04%20at%204.16.32%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960's could be deemed unbelievably awful but with a collection of writers and directors (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and John Huston) desperately herding their all-star cast into what wound up resembling a high-priced TV variety show, it IS believable to have turned out so... well... unbelievably awful...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Chopped into vignettes, by far the most awkward has David Niven's retired/reserved James Bond in Scotland (some kind of homage to Sean Connery) being tempted by a castle of gorgeous "daughters" of John Huston's newly-killed M...</p><p><span></span></p>

angela scoular, barbara bouchet, british, comedy, david niven, deborah kerr, james bond, joanna pettet, john huston, orson welles, peter sellers, spoof, spy, ursula andress, val guest, woody allen

ORSON WELLES, DAVID NIVEN & PETER SELLERS IN 'CASINO ROYALE'

ORSON WELLES from CASINO ROYALE Year: 1967 Rating: *1/2 The infamous James Bond Spy Spoof CASINO ROYALE from the much-too-colorful 1960'...

PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdfpVMj_EdxLxSCtWuS5MmNnIclUY2DdRmGFF720HNAO9BtY5aDQ5kZV9hnOFVdsTbXgIUK6RBngJ7NciBwS9SDL8RdSOBnQlMYxLz48Nx4e2XRY2rNnxbsWLHptLObiibl-HWZXnMnrOEnm9qX15waF2vYOY1sZVTA2UxMNsw0M1WKadhevt-Czb-A/s2051/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-24%20at%204.26.06%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="2051" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdfpVMj_EdxLxSCtWuS5MmNnIclUY2DdRmGFF720HNAO9BtY5aDQ5kZV9hnOFVdsTbXgIUK6RBngJ7NciBwS9SDL8RdSOBnQlMYxLz48Nx4e2XRY2rNnxbsWLHptLObiibl-HWZXnMnrOEnm9qX15waF2vYOY1sZVTA2UxMNsw0M1WKadhevt-Czb-A/w400-h269/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-24%20at%204.26.06%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Britt Ekland in AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with agent Martin Balsam about doing or <i>not</i> doing a French existential film, you'll simply want things to narrow into what the <i>real</i> movie's about...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And AFTER THE FOX doesn't mean <i>what follows</i> but <i>who's followin</i>g Peter Sellers' criminal named Fox, who broke out of prison, in disguise, and there's plenty of humor but not enough laughs... <br></p><p>Shame since the cinematography's so gorgeous, a satire on the pretentious side of 1960's French New Wave cinema, ironically directed by 1950's minimalist BICYCLE THIEVES auteur Vittorio De Sica, not allowing either his funny guy (Sellers) or straight man (Mature) enough time together... leaving the best scenes to Britt Ekland as The Fox's little sister he lives to protect, overriding his plot to recover  stolen loot, which is why he's imitating a filmmaker in the first place. But, like that bogus art film (badgered by noisy, annoying villagers), all that matters is the deliberately pointless running around, which is entertaining yet tiresome. And not always in that order<span style="color: grey;">.</span></p><p><span style="color: grey;"><span></span></span></p>

akim tamiroff, brit ekland, british, comedy, cult, french, heist, jailbreak, maria grazia buccella, peter sellers, satire, sixties, victor mature

PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

Britt Ekland in AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: **1/2 Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with age...

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

<p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9svu0-YfiWzDVp4wV-JUqx981drxQ8o413jl2iK_leK_zejs00U6EeYWclFgUZOaOfWkJVz4XdtdFBp-tGs63BdZh-koqX7pgGtMkumJFrgkprv2iubCSjnv3DHsm3VWiKB7Dabmkqllcl5bk3TX_QsjNh7QcJm7ruNliTgBVsK_9qsuR0r2toIhf5w/s1211/1%202.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1211" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9svu0-YfiWzDVp4wV-JUqx981drxQ8o413jl2iK_leK_zejs00U6EeYWclFgUZOaOfWkJVz4XdtdFBp-tGs63BdZh-koqX7pgGtMkumJFrgkprv2iubCSjnv3DHsm3VWiKB7Dabmkqllcl5bk3TX_QsjNh7QcJm7ruNliTgBVsK_9qsuR0r2toIhf5w/w400-h310/1%202.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War dark comedy DR. STRANGELOVE is the subtle yet brilliant LOLITA, perhaps his most conventionally filmed and least visually offbeat since the storyline takes care of all that... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Middle-aged British college professor James Mason falls for the titular Sue Lyon, whose mom, Shelley Winters, bounces around a suburban East Coast dream house, stealing all the first act scenes in what feels like a short film in itself... </p><p>And she's even more frantically smitten with Mason's Humbert than he surreptitiously lusts for her young-teen daughter, whose beauty alone is pure seduction as Lyon, with full lips just evolved from a playfully puffy, baby-face scowl has wide yet sharpened eyes guiding this literal performance of a lifetime (she had just played a teen seductress on Loretta Young's anthology series),: a sensually timeless time-capsule of devilish chaste enveloped in what eventually becomes Kubrick's very own road movie wherein lurks hilariously shady antagonist Peter Sellers who, like in STRANGELOVE, portrays a number of roles but in one man... playwright Clare Quilty... out to snake the girl from desperate step dad Mason, whose guilt, greed, vengeance and rage has already overpowered him during a framed prologue showdown between Brits: making Lyon's LOLITA not only the anticipated lead, but what everything leads to, means, and completely matters throughout.</p><span></span>

dark comedy, exploitation, james mason, jazz score, jerry stovin, peter sellers, road movie, shelley winters, sixties, stanley kubrick, sue lyon

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****1/2 Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War ...

PETER SELLERS GETS COMPLETELY VICIOUS FOR 'NEVER LET GO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibB9kFDe2TDPWTrjlkR12vjIlyOSpqINQLtFN89My3b1H0U3l8HwZJNyj8Vgm4WpzbpSIML7j_JggtQmCIhef-TEvwltQoaAUgdQAzIRJswixHjWLJW-yDVzWcA0sxe4Ts7HhMhwaTqCcYxmEpgAeA44_pTzYS2n43clU7FnQ_vUsnjlxRLMa2TPvCbZz/s2246/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%209.48.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="2246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibB9kFDe2TDPWTrjlkR12vjIlyOSpqINQLtFN89My3b1H0U3l8HwZJNyj8Vgm4WpzbpSIML7j_JggtQmCIhef-TEvwltQoaAUgdQAzIRJswixHjWLJW-yDVzWcA0sxe4Ts7HhMhwaTqCcYxmEpgAeA44_pTzYS2n43clU7FnQ_vUsnjlxRLMa2TPvCbZz/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%209.48.02%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Sellers & Carol White in NEVER LET GO Year: 1960 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A British Neo Noir cross between DEATH OF A SALESMAN before and DEATH WISH after, John Guillerman made NEVER LET GO the same year as THE DAY THEY ROBBED THE BANK OF ENGLAND, only a car's worth much less than an entire country's bullion vault... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But don't tell that to desperate cosmetics salesman Richard Todd, whose old fashioned, pseudo-charming client-pressuring style goes against the company's new-fangled <i>scientific methods</i>... </p><p><span></span></p>

adam faith, british neo noir, british new wave, carol white, crime, cult, david gregory, david lodge, elizabeth sellars, john guillermin, peter sellers, revenge, richard todd, teddy boys, thriller

PETER SELLERS GETS COMPLETELY VICIOUS FOR 'NEVER LET GO'

Peter Sellers & Carol White in NEVER LET GO Year: 1960 Rating: **** A British Neo Noir cross between DEATH OF A SALESMAN before and DEAT...

ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'A DAY AT THE BEACH' WITH MARK BURNS

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3qCmigs_2Bh3fUD9MDSCQ9SNwJd-gqq4SScEK2Ou-Dr7KvOJ9VnEzVVHwrN20ERIaThSwH3jAbzBNdZs1cOV0O-3UATSaxFPFr3Q3Ecs60EXS8USRhw2xihktiDChTEb1GMYCnn5A7La/s1994/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-24%252Bat%252B11.25.29%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1246" data-original-width="1994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3qCmigs_2Bh3fUD9MDSCQ9SNwJd-gqq4SScEK2Ou-Dr7KvOJ9VnEzVVHwrN20ERIaThSwH3jAbzBNdZs1cOV0O-3UATSaxFPFr3Q3Ecs60EXS8USRhw2xihktiDChTEb1GMYCnn5A7La/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-24%252Bat%252B11.25.29%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mark Burns and Beatie Edney in A DAY AT THE BEACH Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironically, while Roman Polanski was in Europe the same year The Manson Family would violently crash Sharon Tate's party, he was preparing for two movies with the word DAY in the title: scouting to direct THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN while adapting an obscure Dutch novel for A DAY AT THE BEACH, a film so independent it feels like something more of the John Cassavates wheelhouse... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And this BEACH centers on a raving drunken British man's beeline trek through a mostly barren Danish beach tourist town during sporadic rain bursts, and instead of tourists are an abandoned lot of outdoor and indoor cafe or curio shop or liquor store or pub owners wherein he gets more intoxicated and thus more pontificating and moody along the way, mostly trying for as much drink for as little money possible: a kind of progressively-blasted human coupon... </p><span></span>

beatie edney, british new wave, drama, indie, jack macgowran, joanna dunham, mark burns, maurice roëves, peter sellers, road movie, roman polanski, seventies

ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'A DAY AT THE BEACH' WITH MARK BURNS

Mark Burns and Beatie Edney in A DAY AT THE BEACH Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 Ironically, while Roman Polanski was in Europe the same year The...

PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAfpjZJHplR1aQn30upGn2ANgB3ZwUrcHAxeAwehlMbdFTH7U1NKu7QlqXreC03fgPxdwaaYotELzyHOcNbYlYMbkzxtsNjkdxAACzUKZBjw-QcA7SgAWuSZ60LhWLGM5ibc5pdE2H8wg/s1600/01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1458" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAfpjZJHplR1aQn30upGn2ANgB3ZwUrcHAxeAwehlMbdFTH7U1NKu7QlqXreC03fgPxdwaaYotELzyHOcNbYlYMbkzxtsNjkdxAACzUKZBjw-QcA7SgAWuSZ60LhWLGM5ibc5pdE2H8wg/s400/01.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU, has in common with his most popular franchise, THE PINK PANTHER, is that both parody James Bond: Especially 1976's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/StrikesAgain.html">PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN</a>, so over-the-top similar to the Roger Moore outings that MANCHU feels like a homage of a homage. But there's also the Christopher Lee MANCHU b-flicks and before that, Boris Karloff...<br> <br> Sellers was obviously a fan of both as this was he and trophy wife Lynne Frederick's labor-of-love going through several directors, which shows since many overlong scenes lack any direction at all wherein, as usual, Sellers plays several roles, particularly pulp author Sax Rohmer's Tong-lord supervillain and his dogged Scotland Yard investigator Nayland Smith. In both parts, Sellers, who died not long after production wrapped, seems too old and tired to not only pull off genuinely humorous performances but to move along an already convoluted and sometimes downright confusing story (one particular scheme involving an obese guard of a British diamond is a time-wasting mess)...<br>

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PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980 What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANC...

BLAKE EDWARDS MAKES 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBb0nqAj7CIMIwWT5jFJeKuIZfXhzs9pSvRpPEVSk0YCg2dxGK7lgADLC9O5AmQcdG9T3UOkFWn2Xpg3BmGCzFVyKYJPPIkcENidVsKX6qsEg3hi0ZkqIgFbzmrXASMdSv2EN5DdG1ERC/s1600/Picture%25252B9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="851" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBb0nqAj7CIMIwWT5jFJeKuIZfXhzs9pSvRpPEVSk0YCg2dxGK7lgADLC9O5AmQcdG9T3UOkFWn2Xpg3BmGCzFVyKYJPPIkcENidVsKX6qsEg3hi0ZkqIgFbzmrXASMdSv2EN5DdG1ERC/s1600/Picture%25252B9.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1975 cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne, Grégoire Aslan rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a sophisticated womanizing jewel thief played by David Niven, who, along with his nephew and girlfriend, kept one step ahead of Inspector Jacques Clouseau.<br> <br> Skip ten years: Litton has morphed into a younger, cagier, more stealthily and adventurous fortune hunting maverick played by Christopher Plummer, lifting the priceless Pink Panther jewel from a supposedly theft-proof museum in an exciting prologue involving a nail-biting getaway: Well that’s the set-up for Litton, but where’s Clouseau?<br>

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BLAKE EDWARDS MAKES 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

year: 1975 cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne, Grégoire Aslan rating: ***1/2 Sir Charles Litton in the ...

BLAKE EDWARDS DIRECTS HIS COUNTER-CULTURE 'THE PARTY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yrJVgAOSrdmf-Of9glLijP3RnvRT95qDtvLSLl9bwsgXVT6y8zZIgh2IOUsb_MHfnw7s1mFD0ypkMuPx7qyPDKZbSIHCcCJbIq7xrsoqxUzFR2gzibBvTyZHVjD9_mDoFruIIE_P0Ff1/s1600/party6.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="847" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yrJVgAOSrdmf-Of9glLijP3RnvRT95qDtvLSLl9bwsgXVT6y8zZIgh2IOUsb_MHfnw7s1mFD0ypkMuPx7qyPDKZbSIHCcCJbIq7xrsoqxUzFR2gzibBvTyZHVjD9_mDoFruIIE_P0Ff1/s1600/party6.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1968 cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Steve Franken, Denny Miller (pictured), Gavin Macleod rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fans of Blake Edward’s PINK PANTHER movies starring Peter Sellers will find similarities between Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi and Jacques Clouseau: he destroys the English language (in the opinion of all impatient/uptight characters) and is able to turn any location into a falling-domino calamity...<br> <br> First the movie set where he plays an army bugler who refuses to die after which, behind the scenes, he blows up an entire city/location when the cameras aren’t rolling. <br>

blake edwards, comedy, counter-culture, denny miller, gavin macleod, peter sellers, sixties, slapstick, steve franken

BLAKE EDWARDS DIRECTS HIS COUNTER-CULTURE 'THE PARTY'

year: 1968 cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Steve Franken, Denny Miller (pictured), Gavin Macleod rating: ***1/2 Fans of Blake Edwa...

PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJm54ODkTYm3J2LnzQ9aIvaySHf2UoWqmCgHC688MvBfIHf0asXUSNkAs3xW3vqWUTmg8kNnWI1MMIhyVXMbNB_qYURfAJ2r_SmLWfQ_3FcAIVk7IXb0I3S6Q6EvaO4R-oygUr9ctUmBKB/s1600/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2020-04-25%25252Bat%25252B6.34.11%25252BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJm54ODkTYm3J2LnzQ9aIvaySHf2UoWqmCgHC688MvBfIHf0asXUSNkAs3xW3vqWUTmg8kNnWI1MMIhyVXMbNB_qYURfAJ2r_SmLWfQ_3FcAIVk7IXb0I3S6Q6EvaO4R-oygUr9ctUmBKB/s1600/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2020-04-25%25252Bat%25252B6.34.11%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Spoof on JAWS which came out the year previously in THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN from 1976</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s Inspector Dreyfus — having just broke out of an insane asylum — helps a nefarious villain escape from a train by use of a helicopter, followed by several more breakouts and a kidnapping...<br> <br> It seems writer/director Blake Edwards got an itch to make something beyond a slapstick comedy, but Peter Sellers, as the new Chief Inspector Clouseau, won’t let that happen... at least not entirely.<br>

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PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

Spoof on JAWS which came out the year previously in THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN from 1976 There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lo...

COMEDY FILM CHARACTERS WHO TAKE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZeuPe7eewrPPzrqp2UTqmIQmEcYbj98gohKhDaly4SkKjSvYkX70rIwD5u9QDrD-PRsWLhzN2UW9J6R95VrYWT430utqRHXcLcpGxQ8Yb04gtMEfhxVHcqKszLPSe2BU1mvSav_k9-sOV/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-10-08+at+4.22.07+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZeuPe7eewrPPzrqp2UTqmIQmEcYbj98gohKhDaly4SkKjSvYkX70rIwD5u9QDrD-PRsWLhzN2UW9J6R95VrYWT430utqRHXcLcpGxQ8Yb04gtMEfhxVHcqKszLPSe2BU1mvSav_k9-sOV/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-10-08+at+4.22.07+PM.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Only one of these two USED CAR actors made the cut</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> This List, originally conceived as THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A COMEDY, involves ten actors who didn't have to "hit the right comedic marks" to fit neatly inside a comedy vehicle...<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Which doesn't mean the actors or actresses were somehow misdirected or misguided into being overly headstrong, determined, melodramatic and, while in a project where laughs are estimated before the production even begins, the ultimate goal of audience-reaction pretty much counts for everything, and yet, these (sometimes Method) Actors stick to their guns, loaded with a natural style, either hot or cold, laid-back or edgy, and are never throwing a proverbial wink to the audience that says, "It's all for fun" — separating an actor playing for a laugh (which <i>is</i> an art-form in itself) to those simply playing the role outright, and just happening to be in a comedy film: An extremely fine line...<br>

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COMEDY FILM CHARACTERS WHO TAKE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY

Only one of these two USED CAR actors made the cut This List, originally conceived as THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A COMEDY, involves ten...

PETER SELLERS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIPlCk1zqyCGJKZgW00d47xdShWgT333HHcuA3lZ_UaDxAHU6JSXHj3Thn5VowTdvI5ahlbmjzlWG6t8AinW7KMy_9uzwDfqhLSwc2xoY2jw0Rg_pKC5ac1VwmDVQA_ip4cjPTuMu4LM8/s1600/areturnCOVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIPlCk1zqyCGJKZgW00d47xdShWgT333HHcuA3lZ_UaDxAHU6JSXHj3Thn5VowTdvI5ahlbmjzlWG6t8AinW7KMy_9uzwDfqhLSwc2xoY2jw0Rg_pKC5ac1VwmDVQA_ip4cjPTuMu4LM8/s1600/areturnCOVER.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1975 cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne rating: ***1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a sophisticated womanizing jewel thief played by David Niven, who, along with his nephew and girlfriend, kept one step ahead of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Skip ten years: Litton has morphed into a younger, cagier, more stealthily and adventurous fortune hunting maverick played by Christopher Plummer, lifting the priceless Pink Panther jewell from a supposedly theft-proof museum in an exciting prologue involving a nail-biting getaway: Well that’s the set-up for Litton, but where’s Clouseau?<br /> <br /> Thankfully when the French Inspector does show up he’s just like the character from the original films: frustrated, bitter and oblivious to his shortcomings instead of the endearing mascot he'd become in the last two ventures, STRIKES AGAIN and REVENGE: It seems that writer/director Blake Edwards knew the template of the jewel thief handing off scenes with the bumbling Inspector worked to compliment both polar opposites: Plummer’s cool yet energetic Litton is like a crooked James Bond, literally fighting his way out of painted corners in well choreographed action sequences, and Clouseau has more importance because of him.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9FA-zQ3GJItWi916ZsDRWzQCRkTRoScD5MOqn60BN_SVsM6DvN4SpuEx-83VED0cJ5NmcpnaXy_oOWsyHXg9a6utZKXRqHek4U6VVbbRHBmXrPmMiQl0VBEt3cM6WZW2ruDdPPiiEnyc/s1600/Picture+11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9FA-zQ3GJItWi916ZsDRWzQCRkTRoScD5MOqn60BN_SVsM6DvN4SpuEx-83VED0cJ5NmcpnaXy_oOWsyHXg9a6utZKXRqHek4U6VVbbRHBmXrPmMiQl0VBEt3cM6WZW2ruDdPPiiEnyc/s1600/Picture+11.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Sellers wooing Catherine Schell</td></tr> </tbody></table> Clouseau's scenes, wearing various costumes, going from one location to the next, are initially amusing but often drag too long. With Sellers, less is often more: one flawless moment where he eyes a woman diving into a pool, and tips slowly into the water, has been shown on every PANTHER montage, epitomizing Sellers' style. And while Herbert Lom's angry Dreyfus is on board his role is sporadic.<br /> <br /> The only major drawback is Catherine Schell as Litton’s trophy wife, who seems more amused/entertained by Peter Sellers himself than Clouseau. But overall this is a worthy RETURN to a classic character… it’s just a shame he took a whole decade off between adventures.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7awXu3tJNsV3KY9yhnDqQM375zdz1_Fn_dl6GeAoqg6YtYvHchwSo3MbtUjWY5Z1hCAg74uiHuyhLWnZsitMlMvBgQInf28UAJiqa3yTMuhLCxX3jqNvSSZ2pZ6MWGwTxLaw2LT0EaWo/s1600/Picture+9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7awXu3tJNsV3KY9yhnDqQM375zdz1_Fn_dl6GeAoqg6YtYvHchwSo3MbtUjWY5Z1hCAg74uiHuyhLWnZsitMlMvBgQInf28UAJiqa3yTMuhLCxX3jqNvSSZ2pZ6MWGwTxLaw2LT0EaWo/s1600/Picture+9.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Plummer makes a more deceptive Sir Charles Litton</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQl2IfgMFnrXtAH8wHo6cQkJVz9jWTUnarLiwGlYIiEr-oOOxlwg5OnmU6P16LZ0bfydEhUoKZoUkNiMO-13QujoyCjGrhYccBq_NmqHmCpeGcEUxCMSooXgvwt9WX4INuiwdNbqWoMU/s1600/Picture+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQl2IfgMFnrXtAH8wHo6cQkJVz9jWTUnarLiwGlYIiEr-oOOxlwg5OnmU6P16LZ0bfydEhUoKZoUkNiMO-13QujoyCjGrhYccBq_NmqHmCpeGcEUxCMSooXgvwt9WX4INuiwdNbqWoMU/s1600/Picture+3.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the best opening intro cartoon sequences</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8b-eKYnD9L0NZToenwp9UmBFgxrXGsAuMj9VCORwbP1Jalgq6cs-9RUtCYL5-kaw8roxmGuAtLvnAVkUft715cmp-lvAe6-oi48QvGRSQtbIg-SodOHN_g7kFW4xtADUiyYtLtbnF20/s1600/Picture+8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8b-eKYnD9L0NZToenwp9UmBFgxrXGsAuMj9VCORwbP1Jalgq6cs-9RUtCYL5-kaw8roxmGuAtLvnAVkUft715cmp-lvAe6-oi48QvGRSQtbIg-SodOHN_g7kFW4xtADUiyYtLtbnF20/s1600/Picture+8.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=return+of+the+pink+panther">BUY RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER</a></td></tr> </tbody></table>

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PETER SELLERS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

year: 1975 cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne rating: ***1/2 Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 cl...

PETER SELLERS STARRING IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYXUJpEHnJGWUD6_BtJZgRV0MesXlhcIXFQygBRdNSM6iIg8W_f_i13TxUbiGk2CIv9hPaKiIXl-43vfFGZajPL1nYFre-5f5kKiWX0ymvlYkY-XYKVyvJXT5SPCHEoMPF5n7mMNI1Vzk/s1600/pantherjaws.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYXUJpEHnJGWUD6_BtJZgRV0MesXlhcIXFQygBRdNSM6iIg8W_f_i13TxUbiGk2CIv9hPaKiIXl-43vfFGZajPL1nYFre-5f5kKiWX0ymvlYkY-XYKVyvJXT5SPCHEoMPF5n7mMNI1Vzk/s400/pantherjaws.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1976 cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk rating: **1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s eye-twitching Inspector Dreyfus – having just broke out of an insane asylum – helps a nefarious villain escape from a train by use of a helicopter, followed by several more breakouts and a kidnapping. It seems writer/director Blake Edwards got an itch to make something beyond a slapstick comedy, but Peter Sellers, as the <i>new</i> Chief Inspector Clouseau, won’t let that happen... at least not entirely.<br /> <br /> While the main villain means business – Dreyfus will use a “Doomsday Machine” to pulverize New York City landmarks, beginning with the U.N., if he’s not given Clouseau in exchange – our bumbling hero fights his determined Asian sparring partner Kato, visits a gay bar and wreaks havoc in any location he finds himself snooping around in. Thus the most intriguing aspect of STRIKES AGAIN, the second Sellers/Edwards Panther film to follow A SHOT IN THE DARK over a decade earlier, is how the comedy merges with the action – and vice versa.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzjjbIYeUQ-o3MAB1BEBlp4ZY6pFvCSza77hL1IG0FZ2nAD4bvvkeGq5amnyTUG7aI1N_9azHszGIR5YYE3gSrDn4yNezqsl54vUxdN44PvkEC_4lcNk0QFhmgmpX_sXvd_B0by9oCI0/s1600/pink+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzjjbIYeUQ-o3MAB1BEBlp4ZY6pFvCSza77hL1IG0FZ2nAD4bvvkeGq5amnyTUG7aI1N_9azHszGIR5YYE3gSrDn4yNezqsl54vUxdN44PvkEC_4lcNk0QFhmgmpX_sXvd_B0by9oCI0/s400/pink+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clouseau takes one more swipe on Kato</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Perhaps Blake Edwards was competing against the popular Roger Moore/James Bond films where villains hijack supersized weapons...<br /> <br /> Or maybe he wanted to add some of  his former PETER GUNN espionage to the comedic proceedings....<br /> <br /> Sometimes the beloved French klutz gets lost in the mix and the slapstick isn’t always funny – many scenes stretched to the nerve’s limit – but within this hit/miss venture are great looking sets including a formidable castle where our antagonist resides.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFDaPFbjWLzxagrBzvC1ImBBQlHfUS50x7_XdhRbSQDmTyDKHBNGLhF6A7ifs0Y_IEyyVw5Fy8GUxW0oAEJORDtequhvGxGHyconD-BhyphenhyphenegKc7CbTfE3wMZ08rkzRyp9h4IPm4RY8c7M/s1600/pink+4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFDaPFbjWLzxagrBzvC1ImBBQlHfUS50x7_XdhRbSQDmTyDKHBNGLhF6A7ifs0Y_IEyyVw5Fy8GUxW0oAEJORDtequhvGxGHyconD-BhyphenhyphenegKc7CbTfE3wMZ08rkzRyp9h4IPm4RY8c7M/s400/pink+4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Briony McRoberts as Margo, with her father and captor, facing Dreyfus</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Die hard PANTHER fans may desire less stunt work and more of the subtle stuff – like accidentally placing a hand on a moving globe – that distinguishes Peter Sellers from all other physical comedy actors. But the main problem with STRIKES is Clouseau himself.<br /> <br /> In the other films he’s a grouchy, stubborn and completely oblivious working-class Inspector covering up his clumsy antics until eventually (accidentally) succeeding. But here he’s contentedly optimistic and somewhat dazed, relying too much on goofy costumes rather than handling the humor on his own. After the world domination plot is set in place, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau sleepwalks through a seemingly abandoned storyline... Maybe he should never have gotten that promotion in the first place.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSfaV7WdJioF_wkLx1EE2rdGhE_WAQmFzAv8v_vDS0-Q1SoIf8LRqEDd1XlnbmD9aX_gnWb9z14BjrC8UyXzhTgl5b7-f4XHkKp74g4bo7pvGrLiGjkRV76a5l_xEYjTB_axic3vq6CY/s1600/pink+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSfaV7WdJioF_wkLx1EE2rdGhE_WAQmFzAv8v_vDS0-Q1SoIf8LRqEDd1XlnbmD9aX_gnWb9z14BjrC8UyXzhTgl5b7-f4XHkKp74g4bo7pvGrLiGjkRV76a5l_xEYjTB_axic3vq6CY/s640/pink+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIR2z3362mHpCrfmjz65zEOccpnlqGGGsIWpW5V3kdTTSZg6jp7mdC5BzsabvurIK41XjGYyrcwCrSOf-XZG8GU6HImjRKvSR_QhO7FzFnciyrDhoMrae2QFqOnX7MtdPbQ2UP-4b5EOo/s1600/pink+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIR2z3362mHpCrfmjz65zEOccpnlqGGGsIWpW5V3kdTTSZg6jp7mdC5BzsabvurIK41XjGYyrcwCrSOf-XZG8GU6HImjRKvSR_QhO7FzFnciyrDhoMrae2QFqOnX7MtdPbQ2UP-4b5EOo/s640/pink+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=The%20Pink%20Panther%20Strikes%20Again&tag=imdb-adbox">BUY PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN ON AMAZON</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

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PETER SELLERS STARRING IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

year: 1976 cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk rating: **1/2 There’s a pivotal sequence where Herbert Lom’s eye-twitching Inspe...

LIGHTING UP 'ALICE B. TOKLAS' WITH LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG

<div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive1xh7RyKKdDGUIbeH8mBi2ZnyABcZ9zuW-tUcH3iXW3DgWzKT1Srrf69Pn4PViMOLHvbeYmEZaKnLnG12l2C8KYbsO1fFo9ASplr9KIXX7NwNDHokToiShuqLeqs_f4TI9SOc2d1a20/s1600/alicebtokfulsze.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive1xh7RyKKdDGUIbeH8mBi2ZnyABcZ9zuW-tUcH3iXW3DgWzKT1Srrf69Pn4PViMOLHvbeYmEZaKnLnG12l2C8KYbsO1fFo9ASplr9KIXX7NwNDHokToiShuqLeqs_f4TI9SOc2d1a20/s400/alicebtokfulsze.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leigh Taylor-Young and Peter Sellers</td></tr> </tbody></table> <i>LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG, after working for a year on the popular television series PEYTON PLACE, went onto a leading role in the Peter Sellers classic film I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOLKAS where she played Nancy, a free-spirited hippie girl who, with an intoxicating beauty and a special recipe for brownies, changes the course of a stuffy man's existence...</i><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How was it working with such a big star, Peter Sellers?</span></span><br /> <br /> I was just twenty-two and it was a leap from television into a major film with a major superstar at the time... It actually wasn’t that daunting because he was so creative, so wonderful with me, and so welcoming and funny, that he made it fairly effortless. To say what kind of talent he is – it’s kind of hard to describe because he would be familiar to people, I would say, from forty-five up unless they’re, like yourself, a student of film going back…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQU-T-9gVAGF-haWnfJudrchly8b528PET4WoQTPdKTHNxTRUTCRMu2u2BpyB9uYrxB-NJDzjarC9y25jvKwN43UN0GlXZ-Z-2zQuDlPSA1_l56BFrQLFxq73SaToYnYxrQLpodkRFnc/s1600/51.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615332794780082994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQU-T-9gVAGF-haWnfJudrchly8b528PET4WoQTPdKTHNxTRUTCRMu2u2BpyB9uYrxB-NJDzjarC9y25jvKwN43UN0GlXZ-Z-2zQuDlPSA1_l56BFrQLFxq73SaToYnYxrQLpodkRFnc/s1600/51.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Peter Sellers</td></tr> </tbody></table> And then of course they pick up Peter Sellers in his early English films, and then his stardom in America and the “Pink Panther” series, his unique kind of comedy.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Blake Edwards directed him so many times, and for me some of those films are utterly classic comedies.<br /> <br /> He’s English and wacky – gifted with voices and often when he’d have his driver pick me up for work, when we would go to the same location we’d drive together and just entertain ourselves... He would take me on a world tour as a storyteller, make up a story with his character going from country to country, and each country he would enter in, he would take on the accent of that country – and he was telling the story he was making up on the spot. So, I was exposed to such a spoiling experience in a lot of respects.<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was there a lot of improvisation in this film?</span></span><br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ilv87x2QIqGKy2drPGSSYz6-gEO6NsFeacIaGZRc5Sr0r0-X9Mh_Gd2vAUxbwC4jHFJHo9pX0omrDptTr0h_PgERgZB_Mn_aCq6qTxNNj6qhq5bNwh093MSEaQiC9j2w6LiaU3khWew/s1600/16.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615329450444500914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ilv87x2QIqGKy2drPGSSYz6-gEO6NsFeacIaGZRc5Sr0r0-X9Mh_Gd2vAUxbwC4jHFJHo9pX0omrDptTr0h_PgERgZB_Mn_aCq6qTxNNj6qhq5bNwh093MSEaQiC9j2w6LiaU3khWew/s200/16.jpg" style="float: right; height: 194px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leigh Taylor-Young</td></tr> </tbody></table> With Peter you did improvise. There were some scenes that weren’t quite right so Peter and Paul Mazursky, who was the writer of the film, not the director... Paul – who went on to a very creative film career, as you know – and Larry Tucker was his writing partner: They creatively bonded with Peter much more than Hy Averback, who was kind of an old-school television director… They sort of bypassed him… They got very creative on the set and we did scenes, which were shot and worked beautifully…<br /> <br /> Because Paul was so creative, Peter was so creative, and so a number of the scenes in the movie were… I wouldn’t say completely improvisational, but took on that quality in terms of how you worked some of the scenes. And for me that was so much fun because one of the things that was so great (and I feel so strongly about this) is when they welcomed me into the film, never having done a film, Peter, Paul, Larry – they welcomed me as a co-worker, not kind of, “Oh you’re just the young beautiful girl who has the major role in the movie.”<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn90Tb-vAFLCM-n8ejTNA523uYYmNmDH0_Q3EGPqy1drZgIz8O-WE4xlx_31vZmNrR5miQPH23MM1iTdqiexPMYK40FHA3rpAgxgJUiI0mEljcF9V8QE0OQ59T3M4HnGzPhtD8yeB_NnE/s1600/Picture+1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn90Tb-vAFLCM-n8ejTNA523uYYmNmDH0_Q3EGPqy1drZgIz8O-WE4xlx_31vZmNrR5miQPH23MM1iTdqiexPMYK40FHA3rpAgxgJUiI0mEljcF9V8QE0OQ59T3M4HnGzPhtD8yeB_NnE/s400/Picture+1.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leigh Taylor-Young and Peter Sellers</td></tr> </tbody></table> Peter welcomed me as a co-worker, which is a remarkable thing to do to people. That is immensely generous, very stimulating, and I personally think that with the person you’re extending that privilege to, their talent will thrive. And they did that for me… I thrived because I was very well educated in my craft...<br /> <br /> So when they did that with me I was ready… I was ready to fly… I was ready to take the invitation… To match them, to work with them, and to feel like I was ready, in many ways, although never touching the majesty of Peter’s reputation… But I was allowed to feel like I could touch the sun.<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter plays a character that starts out uptight and then becomes a laidback hippie… Which person was more like the real Peter Sellers?</span></span><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ClVmdeQdWm0JQGW5ICxShkSLXbZpz_9fUn3CCO-8ZDGd9bjugQzVi8D7JlPh8WaK6RbC-AUhpsU_Ie3SedaCD2eWSiidYpjwN8xBY-bkOeP_eJhbuwLkKAcyNx5hWpRYVsXCxf6Ho9U/s1600/39.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615328022358108098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ClVmdeQdWm0JQGW5ICxShkSLXbZpz_9fUn3CCO-8ZDGd9bjugQzVi8D7JlPh8WaK6RbC-AUhpsU_Ie3SedaCD2eWSiidYpjwN8xBY-bkOeP_eJhbuwLkKAcyNx5hWpRYVsXCxf6Ho9U/s200/39.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 146px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Sellers</td></tr> </tbody></table> I have to say, on the personality level, if you remove the idea of a Jewish lawyer to hippie, that kind of arc-type idea: Peter had a very uptight quality to him… In his intensity, in his demands, in his absolute ruthlessness for certain things that he wants...<br /> <br /> Sometimes they were unreasonable, and he would get all kind of obsessed and tense about it, but that was more the shadow side of that kind of raw, intense talent. The other side of him was very much the hippie, in the sense of… playful, you know he… I had no knowledge whatsoever of drugs…<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-0Oi1Sa-n5ZCqSfVwV_cHqbwsTQRKZdOPRMasmNvs4XMB1tJnevul9J2boyhkmkYKDe6yipVy_J46_itBlDhYGQFWoNj1Kk96apRkGxYjjlDg07-AFPxVcfdIhZi8fA6mNFpUnoub-0/s1600/33.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615327445848984754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-0Oi1Sa-n5ZCqSfVwV_cHqbwsTQRKZdOPRMasmNvs4XMB1tJnevul9J2boyhkmkYKDe6yipVy_J46_itBlDhYGQFWoNj1Kk96apRkGxYjjlDg07-AFPxVcfdIhZi8fA6mNFpUnoub-0/s200/33.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 191px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing Brownies</td></tr> </tbody></table> I was very fresh out of the Midwest… All of the sudden I’m in a skirt three-fourths up my thighs, saying "cool" and "groovy" and smoking pot… And making brownies… I had absolutely not one reference point for this character and Ryan [O’Neal] gave me the greatest key, because I’d never smoked anything when I auditioned for this. As you know she’s the one who’s smoking and doing the brownies, and Ryan said… He knew I was a great aficionado of classical music, having grown up in the ballet world… He said, “Just be listening to your favorite symphony, which sort of pulls your consciousness out as if you’re sort of out of it; you’re listening to something else, and that can represent a high.”<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOJVf9JVy8Ak1ubPek4CT11YNmlS1vWTdVOoQVaWkRXHcOi-JQPGPlRhQrz8TYrYBjfXCf_AWR5bPcvC7kxgcWno-XAGuh24lPy-cskaHKA7SAkmLikMGOm5tMKbIyuLBQzq1zpq0jlg/s1600/35.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615360880022218194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOJVf9JVy8Ak1ubPek4CT11YNmlS1vWTdVOoQVaWkRXHcOi-JQPGPlRhQrz8TYrYBjfXCf_AWR5bPcvC7kxgcWno-XAGuh24lPy-cskaHKA7SAkmLikMGOm5tMKbIyuLBQzq1zpq0jlg/s200/35.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 146px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Special Recipe</td></tr> </tbody></table> And when we went to the audition, he looked at what I was wearing. And we had motorcycles at that time that we drove, and he said, “I’ll drive you to the audition.” And I had on this sort of shammy tunic top that came to the middle of my thigh with the shammy bell-bottom pants, and he said to me, “Take off the pants, don’t wear the pants, and you’ve got sort of a mini.” And I said, “Oh no.” Being the girl I was, I said, “I can’t do that.” He said, “No, this is a character.” So I did and I walked in with the short skirt and with this correction for the character, and I got the job on the spot. I mean<span style="font-style: italic;"> on the spot</span>, Paul and Peter said, “That’s it, you got it. Right now you’ve got it.” Which is pretty fantastic.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L7Ui2m32A8d1PzDesjlFOVQ3XL0vgK-98EQTcNkwJnSMuTI9eWX4LHknSclpzB66SIeykyFsDDoOMTgZgWxlVqViT73S_Prp-4l3E3pv_mVj4yrGj-nV0SskCUNIHf57dLJfGyOm5-8/s1600/49.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615328819739269010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L7Ui2m32A8d1PzDesjlFOVQ3XL0vgK-98EQTcNkwJnSMuTI9eWX4LHknSclpzB66SIeykyFsDDoOMTgZgWxlVqViT73S_Prp-4l3E3pv_mVj4yrGj-nV0SskCUNIHf57dLJfGyOm5-8/s200/49.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 183px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hippied Sellers</td></tr> </tbody></table> And Peter, yes, he was into what you would call social drugs or things of that nature, as was Paul. And I’d come onto the set and I’d smell this smell… Because I was into alternative healing... Even in the late sixties I was a vegetarian at the time, and I was into meditation and yoga. I was a very, very early person in all this and I’m like, “Oh, somebody’s got herbs.” Finally one day I figured it out… That people were getting stoned.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgT-d5Ygy52rQnlEs9o9z8o2-Sjk6OYxEvW6KyCfMu9Zz6HH3vvEZrzu-h7UIu79enfoNgHzUTBkmyuUgfZiJgZKp-BxB01z4Xo2yroUxRFJoOskTYiNBqDXwQh6KM50BFGVbFdMpboz8/s1600/TheadoraVanRunkle_AliceBToklas2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgT-d5Ygy52rQnlEs9o9z8o2-Sjk6OYxEvW6KyCfMu9Zz6HH3vvEZrzu-h7UIu79enfoNgHzUTBkmyuUgfZiJgZKp-BxB01z4Xo2yroUxRFJoOskTYiNBqDXwQh6KM50BFGVbFdMpboz8/s320/TheadoraVanRunkle_AliceBToklas2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I didn’t know what it looked like to do a so-called toke..."</td></tr> </tbody></table> The best story about that was – the first time ever in my life, given that it was 1967 and it was very much in the culture but not in my personal culture, I was shooting a scene in the movie where he picks me off the street, if you remember, hitchhiking. He takes me back to his apartment… He’s asthmatic… He leaves me in the living room and I say that’s all right, just leave the sound off my TV and I’ll be fine. And he goes into his bedroom and he’s got his inhaler, and he’s doing his inhaler but he hears sort of inhalations other than his inhaler. And what I’m doing is lighting a joint in the living room, watching Cowboys and Indians with no sound and getting high.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB_m7FL1E1q9gFJD74JPe5rMuplc7tdrpX-Vsm9yMFtpYeObQjjFoBYY_V0PMeN-BBUf85p9aGszEroaNuG3Wr1pPK_YJwj1FJe1D-MldrOuRuL21HfSiexfXUu2kR83FkJLex9J9GSE/s1600/52.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB_m7FL1E1q9gFJD74JPe5rMuplc7tdrpX-Vsm9yMFtpYeObQjjFoBYY_V0PMeN-BBUf85p9aGszEroaNuG3Wr1pPK_YJwj1FJe1D-MldrOuRuL21HfSiexfXUu2kR83FkJLex9J9GSE/s200/52.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LTY Interview</td></tr> </tbody></table> I didn’t know how I was going to do this scene… I didn’t even know what it looked like to do a so-called “toke” or even roll the cigarette. Fortunately, on the set, one of the grips was French and he rolled his own cigarettes and he showed me how to do it.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FyXPCNB407MuCUzkIs9RnbADyxO6xYAmXxc0smFCvipkP6DFjXVAYGbhSRpisRtOYztOSA7KnqwJDj-0f_VBPbKYitAEA5c-hvOtRjGun6gvXLGrKLho2GzjRJZGrVGufMmlccc3Uxc/s1600/11.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="515" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615329090145709138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FyXPCNB407MuCUzkIs9RnbADyxO6xYAmXxc0smFCvipkP6DFjXVAYGbhSRpisRtOYztOSA7KnqwJDj-0f_VBPbKYitAEA5c-hvOtRjGun6gvXLGrKLho2GzjRJZGrVGufMmlccc3Uxc/s640/11.jpg" style="float: left; height: 161px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leigh acting stoned</td></tr> </tbody></table> Well when we lined up the shot it was a five-inch camera right close up, because they go way into my face.<br /> <br /> To line up the shot they handed me all the tools and in a little vial was oregano to simulate the grass. When they went to shoot the scene, they gave me grass and didn’t tell me. In the vial… that they gave me… it was grass! So they’re shooting the scene, the camera’s rolling, and they say, “Just do whatever; you’re watching TV.” I’m actually staring at sixty men holding reflectors and lights and everything else, pretending to be watching a television screen with Cowboys and Indians and no sound, rolling a joint... Someone had shown me what taking a toke looked like – and I’m praying inside, going, “Oh God, I hope I do this right.” I take a couple of tokes, and then, all of the sudden it was like the top of my head transformed. My acting skills came in, and on some level of my brain there was a little voice that said, “Use it… Use it.” So on screen you just see my eyes are gigantic… And that’s the moment that it took, and I just stayed with it, knowing on some level what they’ve done but I stayed with it – and that was the first time ever I had that experience.<br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div>

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LIGHTING UP 'ALICE B. TOKLAS' WITH LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG

Leigh Taylor-Young and Peter Sellers LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG, after working for a year on the popular television series PEYTON PLACE, went ...

JOHN CLIVE (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) EXITS STAGE LEFT

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVpKl-jRmtViRB__hTjEQBZFOTwy6NHTjJ2koJcZCebS_pFq8tr7_gjGNRDfxkREfIxEy9qhaSHf5aTju6WMZG9Z3OPrCnMP-6gZpaHZx_1BrqV6JORQMDmln-HFxv7MbeW-wvhwJRCCAR/s1600/title00_205141172.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVpKl-jRmtViRB__hTjEQBZFOTwy6NHTjJ2koJcZCebS_pFq8tr7_gjGNRDfxkREfIxEy9qhaSHf5aTju6WMZG9Z3OPrCnMP-6gZpaHZx_1BrqV6JORQMDmln-HFxv7MbeW-wvhwJRCCAR/s16000/title00_205141172.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Clive in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>A CLOCKWORK ORANGE</b></span> alumni JOHN CLIVE, the STAGE ACTOR who puts Malcolm McDowell's Alex through his first test after the government's experimental aversion therapy, slapping, flooring and then making the poor droogie lick his shoe while goading Renaissance music plays, has left the building. Here are some captures of the man at work... <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7BjTElu2M3LO9WRdh0pC6t6TdL0U8kYg7vApSmOtUusFURYsb9xWkfme6bXw13PpRsG2XNxHoGr13im9XdtqmUAaxtJ7HH7l2qBvJc_ivrcCmuQhelAjBjRU6845UwZ652-pJb2wGerZ/s1600/title00_204342423.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7BjTElu2M3LO9WRdh0pC6t6TdL0U8kYg7vApSmOtUusFURYsb9xWkfme6bXw13PpRsG2XNxHoGr13im9XdtqmUAaxtJ7HH7l2qBvJc_ivrcCmuQhelAjBjRU6845UwZ652-pJb2wGerZ/s16000/title00_204342423.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hello, heap of dirt..."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-3dPEvyz2P0jX8FNllwR7aDJIkjmdM2YkBscrHtyjV7pR0DnAtEtjGM8yMy9tU-_74KeSFOyCwL1cKJRBfxrCjwKFz4i9uzRJi-MSRvcojo9bpesiZlwwUf0oNcm7Gxmn1t8BBRjxrFT/s1600/title00_204623380.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-3dPEvyz2P0jX8FNllwR7aDJIkjmdM2YkBscrHtyjV7pR0DnAtEtjGM8yMy9tU-_74KeSFOyCwL1cKJRBfxrCjwKFz4i9uzRJi-MSRvcojo9bpesiZlwwUf0oNcm7Gxmn1t8BBRjxrFT/s16000/title00_204623380.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Oh, you don't wash much, do ya? Judging by the horrible smell..."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMa5egVyqyfKlpr_IugmakSOyTBMq5-yYjz-WTmAr7-z5aargnqXMTwCkNOmj8fCoLYqoTCxEhjACFRCo70rdWb3sYPOnvLyhkRnDjrVh3ywvcCpZpt-0Og17iSajQUwuDm-r2ZLXPZUll/s1600/title00_20435357.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMa5egVyqyfKlpr_IugmakSOyTBMq5-yYjz-WTmAr7-z5aargnqXMTwCkNOmj8fCoLYqoTCxEhjACFRCo70rdWb3sYPOnvLyhkRnDjrVh3ywvcCpZpt-0Og17iSajQUwuDm-r2ZLXPZUll/s16000/title00_20435357.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If you wanna start something, well you just go ahead!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJhrSOPSrSRhVgjA7em3F9mtUQxKQ5NdNnsOaCdVYjDFfeuBa-mti7czUgC7ISRsnr5-XohSn7VX-tkw_aQ87qiMZlJ_qIeIhgWApFiPDczdeKaSVghG_UwJZnS06zG8_5z-N_whYYzYMT/s1600/title00_205058511.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJhrSOPSrSRhVgjA7em3F9mtUQxKQ5NdNnsOaCdVYjDFfeuBa-mti7czUgC7ISRsnr5-XohSn7VX-tkw_aQ87qiMZlJ_qIeIhgWApFiPDczdeKaSVghG_UwJZnS06zG8_5z-N_whYYzYMT/s16000/title00_205058511.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If you wanna get up, you gotta do something for me..."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXnI0bkzeu9JVk7MkKHlkwhtx0WM3MN-kRix7LjnzZngaNGZG49NAKuRCXK25uc5bcxbP1LS4rNofmefMaa0DX6QqUUdGylZLifX4PDrg7DaeNdyqJ8V2bUCqx14lmJ1pnDji8F2tWILc/s1600/title00_2051184.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXnI0bkzeu9JVk7MkKHlkwhtx0WM3MN-kRix7LjnzZngaNGZG49NAKuRCXK25uc5bcxbP1LS4rNofmefMaa0DX6QqUUdGylZLifX4PDrg7DaeNdyqJ8V2bUCqx14lmJ1pnDji8F2tWILc/s16000/title00_2051184.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You see that shoe? Well I want you to lick it!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsgPahyhCvsMiI8aHEtaCLvwg0RHEr7Bi-tP3XddDOduaWRglYV91GGUadBqYVR3h2Z7cbHQpafhUKM9MDamvW21-ax_IEXczr9JZYFmTVj_66ijiUg3E9AYxUNQLGAbPJnpjgI3BZ8A9/s1600/title00_205131461.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsgPahyhCvsMiI8aHEtaCLvwg0RHEr7Bi-tP3XddDOduaWRglYV91GGUadBqYVR3h2Z7cbHQpafhUKM9MDamvW21-ax_IEXczr9JZYFmTVj_66ijiUg3E9AYxUNQLGAbPJnpjgI3BZ8A9/s16000/title00_205131461.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Clive in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucuEy0DmaxnBnKBXyRMpF3f3dlaECFafT-DUBzbM90RM2RR8dVP4yYUY33xIgRMuosaDZig0skNx7RqE0gvZ7eDF5KBzDwUY3T0Di4j1CfdL9f-jzhlwrAcBOgkYiDeZDtcEMxrA6Ox18Eixgg2LiGkmCnyjHKOEUOJBbbj7K82x8k1NU5HYZTg-iAKlw/s1350/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-08%20at%207.05.03%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucuEy0DmaxnBnKBXyRMpF3f3dlaECFafT-DUBzbM90RM2RR8dVP4yYUY33xIgRMuosaDZig0skNx7RqE0gvZ7eDF5KBzDwUY3T0Di4j1CfdL9f-jzhlwrAcBOgkYiDeZDtcEMxrA6Ox18Eixgg2LiGkmCnyjHKOEUOJBbbj7K82x8k1NU5HYZTg-iAKlw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-08%20at%207.05.03%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Clive in THE ITALIAN JOB<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqo0pxAZ_y774ol-9k7lHE0lUzsD7A6cX-dV7u5SVPrDOzY-JCWOdWhJgy3u6iblRs-rLMVjBmDFCvn9QN17nTRI-CNu83Wnn6QMXyS3hg4hQATBjryjdBPsVSnUbWc-JxM1wqtrdT9d5xsfb-KCpMPrvXHGneJaerI0-oldMgfEhCZRujqnwlcmy09OIF/s1622/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-08%20at%207.05.12%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqo0pxAZ_y774ol-9k7lHE0lUzsD7A6cX-dV7u5SVPrDOzY-JCWOdWhJgy3u6iblRs-rLMVjBmDFCvn9QN17nTRI-CNu83Wnn6QMXyS3hg4hQATBjryjdBPsVSnUbWc-JxM1wqtrdT9d5xsfb-KCpMPrvXHGneJaerI0-oldMgfEhCZRujqnwlcmy09OIF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-08%20at%207.05.12%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Clive with Peter Sellers in THE PINK PANTHERS STRIKES AGAIN</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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JOHN CLIVE (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) EXITS STAGE LEFT

John Clive in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE A CLOCKWORK ORANGE alumni JOHN CLIVE, the STAGE ACTOR who puts Malcolm McDowell's Alex through h...

I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJAoC2knXhegfIb1IP8KnS9x0CdT-EtpDnoIIzJrXB5mbDEPlkM_L7v2VFpCTeQAdV0UlCQ-GJhA-kaBnwrIUmdd-IalVNMbFCpW-R1LRbdETZBahwNNrzpxlA4ch2Y4hNk31PkSiOhyphenhyphenA/s1600/224370_194187510625537_106638979380391_501170_6711405_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601870636466515330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJAoC2knXhegfIb1IP8KnS9x0CdT-EtpDnoIIzJrXB5mbDEPlkM_L7v2VFpCTeQAdV0UlCQ-GJhA-kaBnwrIUmdd-IalVNMbFCpW-R1LRbdETZBahwNNrzpxlA4ch2Y4hNk31PkSiOhyphenhyphenA/s200/224370_194187510625537_106638979380391_501170_6711405_n.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 124px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 1967<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast: </span>Peter Sellers, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> **1/2<br /><br />Clever but familiar premise has Peter Sellers as an uptight lawyer going through an early mid-life crisis after meeting a young gorgeous hippie girl, Leigh-Taylor Young, and, after ditching his wedding to annoying fiance Joyce Van Patten, he becomes a full-blown hippie. Soon he learns the easygoing lifestyle is anything but, and perhaps his uptight ways are best for him. And that's the fun part, as Sellers begins to doubt his choices with niche expressions that always keep you guessing. And while Sellers has his moments, Leigh Taylor-Young steals the movie, perfectly balancing street-smart charm and naivete. But a dated soundtrack, sounding like a game show, and lack of any solidly funny moments, keeps it at an even buzz throughout.

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I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS

title: I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS year: 1967 cast: Peter Sellers, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin rating: **1/2 Clever...