― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.student.hro.nl/0548160/nero_bestanden/ustinov.jpg
― robster (robster), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:09 (twenty years ago) link
I am desparate to see this film all of a sudden.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
RIP
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago) link
(It should be Lola Montes. I have a very vivid memory of seeing 'OooDiM' one Saturday morning at the Stevenage ABC in the 1970s.)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― ..., Monday, 29 March 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
I grew up knowing him best with his Poirot turns, and I still think Evil Under the Sun is a brilliant confection -- Guy Hamilton directing, Cole Porter arrangements on the soundtrack, great cast and gorgeous scenery. Ustinov takes casual control of it all and has a blast.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
They played excerpts from those on channel 4 news tonight....basically Peter making car noises.He's a delight in Spartacus. Absolutely hilarious.
― pete s, Monday, 29 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
What a nincowpoop, etc. You are of course technically right but the SPIRIT of the thing etc.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
I had no idea he wrote his scenes with Laughton in Spartacus. Enormously entertaining interview on the bonus disc.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 24 November 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Motor racing LPs!!
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://991.com/gallery_180x180/Peter-Sellers-The-Two-Peters-350896-991.jpg
One of the first records I ever owned!
(I'm not that old though)
(well, not quite)
(Oh OK, I am...)
(I got it second-hand for Christmas)
― Mark G, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw "Spartacus" just a couple of months ago! I was kinda annoyed by Ustinov/Laughton anachronistically describing Woody Strode as "the negro" - wouldn't "the Moor" or "Nubian" be more appropriate?
Nice Ustinov moment: Successfully completing the couplet "...the kind you don't bring home to mother" when prompted with "She's a very kinky girl..." during the "5 Questions" quiz on the old Craig Kilborn show.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Ustinov in "Knowing Rick James lyics" ?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
When you look up "polymath" in the dictionary, there is a picture of Peter Ustinov.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching _Topkapi_ now, and he's a lot of fun in it
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
My son is really into the Disney Robin Hood right now, which I had never seen growing up. Ustinov's Prince John characterization is wonderful.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link