#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.

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…
Claudine Longet, Singer-Actress Who Shot Skier Spider Sabich, Dies at 84
#Music #MusicNews #BlakeEdwards #Obit #PeterSellers
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
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
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.
A more complete version, with a great ukulele solo, was released by Art Fowler:
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
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
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 …