An HBO biopic pursues the real Peter Sellers. But it doesn't quite make us want to find him. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. ... Television: Clouseau’s Last Mystery. 2 minute read.

That theme was explored poignantly in Sellers’s last serious film, “Being There,” Hal Ashby’s 1979 existential triumph, which earned the actor his only Academy Award nomination. But the conceit of ...

TL;DR: The Beatles loved a Peter Sellers film that was helmed by a famous director. Paul McCartney felt the band members’ enjoyment of the movie said a lot about them.

“I like to watch.” In uttering that line in the 1979 movie Being There, Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellers) was confessing his addiction to television.Now we have Donald Trump, who also likes to ...