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...next 54 years after that carry-on part, Peter Sellers strove for the role. When he died of a heart attack last week in London, he was still officially untitled, but he had more than earned his royal mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prime Minister of Mirth | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Unhappily, Director Richard Lester sells his mirthright for a mess of footage in his version of this comedy of erotic errors. But Zero Mostel still manages to be funny skipping around in his fingertip-length tunic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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