#TakingABreakFromFilming
#PeterSellers with his newly purchased Porsche 911 (930) Turbo 🚘 in London (1978).

Hrundi V. Bakshi en la fiesta de disfraces del sábado 30 de mayo.

#costume #PeterSellers #BlakeEdwards #TheParty

How do you “unmask” performers whose entire careers depended on performance itself? Man of a Thousand Faces, Chaplin, and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers reveal less about their subjects than about the anxieties, values, and fantasies of their times.
#FilmCriticism #Cinema #LonChaney #CharlieChaplin #PeterSellers #Biopic #FilmEssay #MovieReview #RichardAttenborough #JamesCagney #RobertDowneyJr #GeoffreyRush
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/iconography-and-artifice-in-the-cinematic-biopic-man-of-thousand-faces-chaplin-and-the-life-and-death-of-peter-sellers/
Iconography and Artifice in the Cinematic Biopic: Man of Thousand Faces, Chaplin, and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The genre of the cinematic biopic has long struggled with a central paradox: the attempt to capture the fluid, often contradictory essence of a human life within the rigid structure of a two-hour n…

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Claudine Longet, Singer-Actress Who Shot Skier Spider Sabich, Dies at 84

Married to Andy Williams, she recorded pop albums and starred with Peter Sellers in ‘The Party’ before being convicted of criminally negligent homicide.

The Hollywood Reporter

Reihe „Abspann – Filme im Fokus soziologischer Betrachtung“
Dieses Mal mit einer Kriegssatire von Stanley Kubrick.
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– Wann: Di., 28.4., 19:00
– Wo: Filmgalerie Phase IV, #DresdenNeustadt
– Fassung: Englisch mit deutschen Untertiteln.
– freier Eintritt
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In Kooperation mit dem Institut für Soziologie der @tudresden
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Die globale atomare Selbstvernichtung ist wohl nie so konsequent als Farce und Groteske inszeniert worden. Dabei plante Stanley Kubrick Anfangs eher eine ernste Parabel zu den Gefahren des Atomkriegs. Zeitgenössische militär- und geostrategische Planspiele sowie der verbreitete kybernetische Glaube an die … (1/2)

#StanleyKubrick #GeorgeCScott #PeterSellers ⁨⁨#KalterKrieg #ColdWar #Atombombe #AtomicBomb #Satire #Soziologie⁩⁩ #Kino⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ #Cinema⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ #cinemastodon⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ #FilmBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#DresdenBubble⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩

“Obviously, I never got to work with #CharlieChaplin; I never got to work with #AlecGuinness, I never got to work with #PeterSellers, but it is my absolute honor to say and to be able to tell my kids that I got to work with #EddieMurphy.” - #MikeMeyers 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 😆 ftw.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Mike Myers showed up in full S...
Mike Myers showed up in full Shrek makeup to pay tribute to Eddie Murphy and it was perfect

Mike Myers committed to the bit when paying tribute to Shrek co-star Eddie Murphy at this year's AFI Life Achievement Awards.

For The Win

Some kind soul on YouTube has created a playlist of Peter Sellers movies (quite a number here in full). (I've presently fallen down a Peter Sellers rabbit hole thanks to Roger Lewis.)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFa2yUBFRr4Iju1vkUd9a1xdgDsE3WzD&si=ZQXA5TLuLkdsyXuv

#petersellers

Peter Sellers Movies

Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in ...

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Peter Sellers learned this 1927 song from his dad and it clearly stuck with him: in addition to performing it on his 1959 comedy album "Songs For Swingin' Sellers" and in the largely forgotten 1973 film "The Optimists of Nine Elms," he rolled it out during an interview on Parkinson.

https://youtu.be/JkIrvY32FpU

A more complete version, with a great ukulele solo, was released by Art Fowler:

https://youtu.be/RLlFruvknao

The songsheet is based closely on the original sheet music (play the same chord shapes shown on a ukulele tuned ADF#B if you want to play in the original key of G), but you can find the lyrics to Fowler's performance here: https://www.lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/i/ihaventtoldhershehasnttoldme.html

#Ukulele #Music #1920s #PeterSellers

Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir

From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes

The Guardian

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 20

Tin Man

Remembering George Martin through this classic from America.

“But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad”

#america #DeweyBunnell #gerrybeckley #danpeek #georgemartin #petersellers #shirleybassey #jeffbeck #cascade #chocolatemilk #incognito #evanolson #ivomeirelles #emmersonnogueira

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/tin-man-chunks-of-thoughts-and-themes-put-together-into-a-mosaic-musicislife-tedtockscovers-america-deweybunnell-gerrybeckley-danpeek/

Tin Man – Chunks of Thoughts and Themes Put Together Into a Mosaic. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #America #DeweyBunnell #GerryBeckley #DanPeek #GeorgeMartin

From the files of “I did not know that”. George Martin produced ‘Tin Man’ by America. Yes, he produced America’s 1974 ‘Holiday’ album along with his trusted engineer Geoff Emerick. For Martin this …

Ted Tocks Covers