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Video of Peter Sellers reciting The Beatles

Video of Peter Sellers reciting The Beatles A Hard Day's Night in the style of Laurence Olivier doing Shakespeare's Richard III. Got all that? (via cyn-c)

By Jason Kottke  •  Dec 21, 2007  •  laurenceolivier   Peter Sellers   remix   The Beatles   video   William Shakespeare

Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley

Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley talking to Dmitri on the phone in Dr. Strangelove...one of my favorite scenes of any movie ever.

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 25, 2006  •  best of   Dr. Strangelove   lists   movies   Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers doing various English accents

During an interview in support of the premiere of Dr. Strangelove, an unheard interviewer expresses surprise at Peter Sellers' use of an American accent and asks him to use an English one. Here's a video of Sellers trying to find an accent to the interviewer's liking:

What is that, nine different completely plausible accents in 45 seconds? I love actors who can do accents well. Sellers is my favorite, but I also like Aussie Rachel Griffiths playing Californian Brenda in Six Feet Under and Brits Idris Elba & Dominic West (drug dealer Stringer Bell and officer Jimmy McNulty on The Wire). American actors often seem to have problems doing accents although Gwyneth Paltrow does a nice posh Londoner. We saw The Departed this weekend (really good, BTW), which takes place in Boston, always an accent minefield for actors. Locally grown Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon acquitted themselves quite well. The rest? Not so much. DiCaprio was alright, but the rest of the cast was tuning in and out like an old AM radio.

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 9, 2006  •  departed   Dr. Strangelove   language   movies   Peter Sellers

The Dr. Strangelove DVD has this clip

The Dr. Strangelove DVD has this clip on it (or something very similar): an audio recording of Peter Sellers seamlessly transitioning from one British accent to the next. (via clusterflock)

By Jason Kottke  •  Aug 17, 2006  •  audio   Peter Sellers

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