Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the simple-minded Chance of Being There...
Peter Sellers spoke English, of course. He spoke 20 dialects of British English; and in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, he used 3 different Southern accents. He knew how to say "rhume" instead of "room," and "minkey" rather than "monkey." He knew that it was funny to fall into a moat with his clothes on. And he knew that it wasn't really funny for him to play the president of the United States and say, "You can't fight here--this is the War Room...
...October 1958, when Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita and Harry Golden's memoir Only in America were the most popular new books in the U.S., TIME published its first weekly list of bestsellers. Compiled from information provided by bookstores to TIME correspondents in 22 cities, the list was then one of the few to be truly national in scope. It has since become a bestseller in its own right, distributed by the Associated Press to its 1,370 member newspapers. But as the technology of publishing books has advanced, so has the arcane art of counting book sales...
...variety of tinted glasses. The professional man, the possessed performer, throws himself into roles that are often multiple. He has played more than one part in seven films, including The Mouse That Roared, Strangelove and his next, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, not to mention pictures like Lolita and the Pink Panther series, where, in character, he adopts a variety of wild disguises...
...mistaken identity. For the gag to work repeatedly, the audience must believe that Chance is so completely blank that he could indeed seem to be all things to all the people he meets. Peter Sellers' meticulously controlled performance brings off this seemingly impossible task; as he proved in Lolita, he is a master at adapting the surreal characters of modern fiction to the naturalistic demands of movies. His Chance is sexless, affectless and guileless to a fault. His face shows no emotion except the beatific, innocent smile of a moron. His verbal repertoire consists only of mild pleasantries, polite...