Peter Sellers
Chance ('Chauncey Gardiner')
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May 25, 1997 · On the day that Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue, I found myself thinking of the film "Being There'' (1979). The chess champion said there was something about the computer he did not understand, and it frightened him. There were moments when the computer seemed to be . . . thinking. Of course, chess is not a game of thought but of mathematical strategy; Deep Blue has demonstrated it is ...
At an upscale Washington cocktail lounge, two important, older, well-dressed men are discussing Chauncey; one says to the other, there is a rumor "he holds degrees in medicine as well as law." Rand, dying of aplastic anemia, encourages his wife to become close to Chance, knowing Eve is a fragile woman.
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/16/23 Full Review Normal D Being There, a deeply strange and awkward film starring Peter Sellers, tiptoes meekly around deep ideas and then asks ...
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Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Kind And Sensitive Man Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), upset by her zillionaire husband's illness, consoled by idiot Chance (Peter Sellers), now called "Chauncey" and newly famous as a counselor to the president, and taking a call from a financial editor (John Harkins) in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.
Hal Ashby's "Being There" is a movie that inspires those feelings. It begins with a cockamamie notion, it's basically one joke told for two hours, and it requires Peter Sellers to maintain an excruciatingly narrow tone of behavior in a role that has him onscreen almost constantly. It's a movie based on an idea, and all the conventional wisdom ...
In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn’t respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning ...
Apr 14, 2019 · The original trailer in high definition of Being There directed by Hal Ashby and starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden and Ri...
