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		This particular song was performed as a duet between the real-life Sellers and Loren, and was a hit in the late-1960s in the UK and throughout Europe.
		Such a rich and varied life would lend itself to a miniseries but of course it would be a copout to suggest that at least a glimmer into the life of a man couldn't be done successfully within two hours.
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	The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (2004)
		Peter Sellers showed an almost unparalleled ability to lose himself in characters and to take on disparate personalities.
		Peter can’t break free from his mother’s influence, but he doesn’t want to, as he prefers to defer to her in all matters.
		Peter immediately falls for the Italian bombshell and does whatever he can to be around her.
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	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trivia: Scenes were filmed with Emilia Fox as Lynne Frederick, Peter Sellers's wife, but had to omitted from the final print and DVD for legal reasons.
		Peter Sellers: Your father is a useless, talentless, empty man. Did you know that?
		Geoffrey Rush does a great Peter Sellers impersonation, and Emily Watson shines as his wife, but otherwise the film is a little hard to recommend.
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	The Life & Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
		In the decade or so before his death in 1980, the film superstar Peter Sellers was rumored to have a few off-screen idiosyncrasies, but according to The Life & Death of Peter Sellers, a childish devotion to his mother was the least of his problems.
		Sellers sees the people around him as extensions of himself, it seems, and to demonstrate this crippling egotism, we see Rush as Sellers morph into those people, such as his mother, father, and wife, whenever he feels the needs to clarify their point of view.
		Also very good in Life & Death are Stephen Fry, known for his role in the Jeeves and Wooster TV series and here playing Sellers's trusted psychic, and Charlize Theron, with her Monster make-up scrubbed off for the role of Britt Ekland, the '60s movie star and Sellers's second wife.
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	MovieFreak.com - "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" DVD Review
		Peter’s mother and father were entertainers, and they raised Sellers in a rootless, unorthodox fashion that stunted Peter’s emotional growth.
		Sellers made a lot of films that represented where he was in his life, and he also recorded hours upon hours of his own home movies.
		In The Life and Death of Peter Sellers we Peter Sellers as a self-hating mess of a human being behind the comedic façade, a man who did not see himself as funny or interesting, but who was able to create these legendary, timeless characters.
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	THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS Movie Review
		Seller’s was by all accounts a man in constant turmoil about who he was and where he was going.
		Sellers first marriage to Anne Howe (played by the ever wonderful Emily Watson) was a tumultuous one, ending in divorce after 10 years but giving him two of his children, Michael and Sarah.
		Peter Sellers was obviously a very complex man who was as much an enigma to those close to him as he was to himself and for this reason he was a very sad man. So often, the saddest internal person is the comic clown on stage and Sellers was the ultimate sad clown.
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	The Life & Death of Peter Sellers - Film Review Trailer Streams
		Sellers’ movie roles and his life of glamour and excess sweep you along in an enjoyable romp that gives the film great pace and makes it a wonderful piece of escapism.
		On the other hand the film struggles to reveal what drove the comic genius of Sellers, only managing to show the sometimes devastating effects of his unchecked outbursts that seemed to stem from his mothers ruthless ambition for her son.
		While it manages to show the life and personality that few outside the film industry would have seen, the film still manages to leave unanswered the interesting question of just what made Sellers the genius he was.
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		Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was a famously enigmatic actor, who by all accounts hid behind a seemingly endless supply of prosthetic noses and funny voices.
		Sometimes scenes will end with "Sellers" taking over the role of a wife or colleague, addressing the camera in the form of little testimonials, as if Sellers himself were writing (and righting) the story of his life; the effect mainly comes off as gimmicky.
		Sellers is depicted most unflatteringly, as a delusional, immature man with an uncomfortably Oedipal relationship with his mother (Miriam Margolyes, very good) and with no sense of self.
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	DVD review of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Like most biographical films these days, Peter Sellers’ career highlights are not the focus of this film but are instead used as timeline markers to instinctively cue the audience in on the specific period of time in his long and illustrious career.
		For those of us who were born after the 60’s, Peter Sellers might not seem like a likely candidate to match some of today’s self-important and highly demanding celebrities but according to this film, there is another side to Sellers that simply screams out for some sort of logical explanation.
		Sellers’ strange behavior even extends to delusional tendencies, such as his apparent belief that his co-star in the film “The Millionairess”, the Italian sex symbol, Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquino) is secretly in love with him and vice-versa.
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	Home Theater & Sound -- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - ****
		Geoffrey Rush is brilliant in the role of Sellers, and Sellers-like, he takes on 50+ different characters, morphing into his own mother, his father, his wife, his various directors, always to justify his own bad behavior.
		Peter Levy's cinematography is constantly interesting, always in flux among fl-and-white footage, digital effects, rich color images, and cartoons.
		Sellers staged lots of home movies of his family over his lifetime, and in homage, Levy shifts from color to fl and white, even in the middle of a scene, as a way of indicating Sellers’s own mental movements between fantasy and reality.
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	MovieFreak.com - "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" Movie Review
		Sellers was a unique British performer who got his start in BBC radio and struggled for some time to make the transition to the silver screen.
		Rush also impersonates the people in Sellers' life in a gimmicky dramatic device director Stephen Hopkins employs where the film is a film-within-a-film (i.e.
		Sellers in real-life has inspired many comics of today, notably Mike Myers who worshipped him and paid a valentine of sorts in his inspired by Austin Powers films.
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	DVD in My Pants - Review: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There were times that he might have pushed it a bit too far with the silly dances and whatnot, but Sellers was such a complex individual that undertaking such a task without making a giant ass out of one’s self was pretty admirable.
		There were some very clever “life imitating art” moments in the film such as little fumbly bits with a coat sliding off a banister or a dropping of a glass of o.j.
		Peter Sellers was a comic genius and undoubtedly one of the most complex people we’ve ever laughed at on the big screen.
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	Charlize Theron, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, interview,
		It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
		She told her manager she was going to a movie with this man called Peter Sellers.
		Peter was very much in control of what she did.
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	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
		Peter Sellers used to say that there was once a real "him" but he'd had it surgically removed.
		Hopkins seems unsure whether Sellers is a genius or an overrated impersonator riding a fluke, and is clearly very uncertain indeed whether to endorse the 1980 film Being There as the alleged redemptive masterpiece up to which Sellers' whole unhappy life had been leading.
		The movie is especially unconvincing when it has Sellers step out of frame, as it were, and imitate the people in his life with the aid of wigs and costumes, making shrewd, barbed comments in their personae.
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	Virgin Megastores : The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers
		HBO Films presents The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, a vivid portrait of the complex genius behind the actor we knew as Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush, Pirates of the Caribbean).
		Director Stanley Hopkins film concentrates on Sellers destructive impulses which his loved ones struggled to deal with, whilst infusing the film with just enough eccentricity as to be a suitably madcap tribute to the man himself.
		Sellers’ unnatural closeness to his mother and her indulgence of him leaves him unable to behave as anything other than a spoiled child with others.
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	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is as empty as its protagonist. By Dana Stevens
		The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is as empty as its protagonist.
		HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is as empty as it claims its protagonist was.
		The theme of Sellers' essential nonexistence is a fascinating one, but at times the film seems overly anxious to hammer it home, stringing together scene after scene in which we are told, rather than shown, that the actor has no personality outside the roles he plays.
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	The New York Times > Arts > Television > TV Weekend \| 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers': Tickling ...
		Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers and Charlize Theron as Britt Eckland in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
		Peter Sellers famously said that of himself, and his words serve as a useful, unheeded warning.
		The Peter Sellers story is part of a larger onslaught of show business necrophilia, from cameo re-creations of Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's "Aviator" to "The Real Gilligan's Island," a TBS reality show in which ordinary people compete to impersonate sitcom castaways on a desert isle (dueling Professors and Mary Anns).
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	Amazon.com: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: DVD: Geoffrey Rush,Charlize Theron,Emily Watson,John Lithgow,Miriam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed.
		Sellers ultimately is portrayed as a volatile creative force, capable of destructive rages as well as of great charm, playfulness, and generosity.
		Sellers relationship with his mother was truly creepy, and is rightly credited with his later craziness (which, today, we would probably call a borderline personality disorder).
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	Amazon.ca: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: DVD: Stephen Hopkins,Stephen Fry,Nigel Havers,John Lithgow,Miriam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Notwithstanding that, Emily Watson (as Anne Sellers, Peter's first wife), Charlize Theron (as Britt Ekland, his second wife), Miriam Margolyes (as Peter's mother) and John Lithgow (as director Blake Edwards) are also noteworthy in their roles, and help the spectator to forget that he is watching a movie, instead of glimpsing scenes from real life.
		Stephen Hopkins, the director of "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers", mixes scenes of what could have been Peter's "real life", with Peter's recreations of those scenes from his own point of view.
		Whether you are a fan of Peter Sellers or not, I think that you are likely to enjoy this movie based on his life...
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	GreenCine \| product main - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
		Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) was raised by a domineering mother (Miriam Margolyes) and meek father (Peter Vaughan), and at an early age discovered he liked to hide behind the emotional curtain of playing a character.
		While working on a film with Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquino), Sellers fell in love with the great Italian beauty, and eventually left his wife Anne (Emily Watson) to pursue her; when it became clear that Loren wanted nothing to do with him, Sellers fell into an affair with her stand-in instead.
		But Sellers' mood swings eventually put paid to their marriage, and while he finds commercial success as a funnyman onscreen, he achieves little in the way of happiness or respect.
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	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Heino Review: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
		Sellers was obviously a singular performer; neurotic, conflicted, and most of all, a complete cypher.
		I loved Shot in the Dark and like a number of Seller's roles, but he was a little weird and a little offputting so maybe the film explains a bit why I do feel there is something a bit dark and perverse in a lot of his films.
		Life and Times of Peter Sellers was an HBO movie on TV in America, everywhere else it was released theatrically.
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		The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British...
		The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this biopic.
		Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) was raised by a domineering mother (Miriam Margolyes) and meek father (Peter Vaughan), and at an early age discovered he liked to hide behind the emotional curtain of...
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	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
		Sellers believed in psychic humbuggery, terrorized his children, beat his second wife, and left his first wife because of his totally unrequited love for Sophia Loren.
		Let's face it, Peter could be a very unpleasant guy, given to childish temper tantrums, delusions, and fits of sheer nastiness.
		In the course of doing that, you have "Sellers as his mom" or "Sellers as his wife" or "Sellers as his psychic" address the camera directly, explaining some element of the exposition, or providing some psychological insight.
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	Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sellers was remarkable not only for his achievements as actor and comedian; he was also a man plagued by mental health troubles which, arguably, were a large part of who he was and the parts that he created.
		The writers also choose to have Sellers portray other characters in the film: in different scenes, Rush takes the role of Sellers’s mother, father, first wife and even Stanley Kubrick and in a creepily self-conscious fashion, addresses the audience from their perspective.
		The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers is an ambitious film that, unfortunately, fails to fill in the blanks of a character who is still a mystery.
	www.highangle.co.uk /reviews/lifeanddeath.html (753 words)

	James Wolcott: Nowhere Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Life & Death of Peter Sellers, premiering Sunday night on HBO, is as brilliantly done as could be dreamed.
		Peter Sellers was a monster, and a hollow one at that.
		The film shows makes the point again and again that when he wasn't in character, Sellers was nothing, a zero, so self-alienated he didn't even make a reflection in the mirror.
	jameswolcott.com /archives/2004/12/nowhere_men.php (247 words)

	MegaStar - The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers
		Rush's Sellers is a mummy's boy (Miriam Margoyles is excellent as the controlling matriarch Peg) with his finger firmly on the self-destruct button of his closest relationships, including those with his children, colleagues (especially Pink Panther director Blake Edwards, played here by John Lithgow) and four wives.
		Sellers initially grinds down his first wife Anne (Emily Watson) into misery and infidelity, largely due to his unrequited fixation with Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquino).
		Or perhaps there was no real Peter Sellers, just a series of memorable personas in a life that became the film.
	www.megastar.co.uk /cinema/news/2004/09/30/sMEG01MTA5NjU1NzMyMzc.html (378 words)

	THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS movie review, In Film Australia
		Sellers, it seems, was a grossly irresponsible and abhorrently immature man with more than a couple of nasty bones in his body.
		One early scene demonstrates his juvenile incapacity for responsibility: Sellers responds to an innocent mistake from his child by stomping and trampling all over his miniature train set, and then attempts to cover his tracks by buying him back with a brand new pony.
		The Life and Death of Peter Sellers disclosing its story information in odd ways – it has a loopy and sometimes unsatisfying technique for unravelling the facts and toying with the professional details of his life.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/petersellers.htm (735 words)

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