Hal ashby

Peter Sellers in Being There

By Sven Mikulec After saying saying farewell to the nation in a televized address, Richard Nixon handed in his resignation in August, 1974, leaving the Oval Office smeared by the Watergate catastrophe and effectively causing a considerable and influential shift in the way citizens of the United States approached their government and political authority.

Few people have seen Vital Parts since the Harold and Maude auteur wrote the screenplay 30 years ago—until now.

The Landlord. Beau Bridges. Pearl Bailey. Lee Grant. Diana Sands. 1970.

Hal Ashby in Bound for Glory (1976)

Peter Sellers (Chauncey Gardiner)

HAPPY 78th BIRTHDAY to DAVID CLENNON!! 5/10/21 Born David Clennon, American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Miles Drentell in the ABC series thirtysomething and Once and Again, as well as his role as Palmer in the John Carpenter film The Thing. He has been frequently cast in films directed by Hal Ashby, Costa-Gavras and Jordan Walker-Pearlman.

Peter Sellers may have been crazy, but he was also a great comic actor. Directors and others remember the highs and lows of working with him.

RUTH GORDON & HAL ASHBY on the set of HAROLD AND MAUDE (USA, 1971)

By Sven Mikulec It was Robert Towne, one of the greatest script doctors that Hollywood has ever seen, that wrote the adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's 1970 novel called ‘The Last Detail.’ Towne, who would go on and only a year later pen what a lot of people call one of the best scripts ever