Experience is a comb life gives to you after you’ve lost your hair.
Peter Sellers Original name: Richard Henry Sellers Born Sep. 8, 1925 Died:
Jul. 24, 1980
British Actor. He is best remembered for his role of inept French pol ice I n s p e c t o r ' J a c q u e s Clouseau' in the "Pink Panther" series of films (1964 to 1982). The last of that series, "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982) was made after his death, using film clips and unseen footage from his earlier "Pink Panther" movies. Born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Hampshire, his parents worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army, where he met future actors Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine. Following the war, he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music and impressions (he played the drums), which led to his doing impressions on BBC television's "The Goon Show." Moving rapidly into a series of British comedy films during the mid-1950s, he quickly caught widespread audience appeal, and each successful role led to more and better films. Following British comic tradition of doing multiple roles in the same play, he was adept at performing multiple roles in his movies, including his hilarious "The Mouse that Roared" (1959) (playing three different parts), the black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), (playing a pragmatic RAF officer, a wimpy United States President and a weird German scientist), and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1979) (playing the roles of Rudolf IV, Rudolf V, and Syd Frewin). In 1959, he won the British equivalent of an Oscar for his role of 'Fred Kite', a labour leader in "I'm All Right, Now," (1959), and in 1979 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role of 'Chance Gardiner' in his film, "Being There" (1979). He was married four times, to Ann Howe (1951 to 1961), to actress Britt Ekland (1964 to 1968), to Miranda Quarry (1970 to 1974) and to actress Lynn Frederick (1977 to his death in 1980).
It’s better to have loved a short man than to never have loved a tall.
Whooops, and double Whooops. Sorry !!!
Last month we published an article about Mars being a spectacular sight on 27th August as it would be as close to the earth since the Neanderthals roamed about in Preston ( on a Friday night some still do.) It was an email sent to us by several people, and being a bit short staffed in our astronomy department due to holidays, we didn’t check the facts. It turns out to be a complete load of “Tosh .” Apparently, this Email began it’s rounds way back in 2003 B.G. ( Before Google ) and there was an element of truth as Mars was a bit brighter then. But we are reliably informed by some of our more educated readers, that should Mars ever appear as large as our moon, as promised in the article, then the Earth’s gravity would be severely effected and we would all die. So, if you were the one on top of Pendle Hill on 27th August, clutching the local Herald and hoping to get a glimpse of the odd Martian, we’re really sorry. What we should have told you was the Earth would be passing through a comet’s tail on 12th and 13th August and we would have a spectacular “fireworks” display as bucket loads of meteors hit our atmosphere. Sorry you missed it.
When a person says, “I’ll think about it and let you know.” You know.
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