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One of my favorite laugh makers was Peter Sellers who made so many delights.

A friend was his nurse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4

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I grew up with those movies from childhood. My dad liked them. Yes, fun, silly and unusual in the set up with constant training from the killer butler.

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I had a live webinar on so just watched the clip. I hadn't placed Peter Sellers in that movie in my memory banks. I saw that one later in life and just like once.

Predictive programming - tell us the plan.

Neat to have a friend connection to him.

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Being There! Dr. Strangelove! 💙💙💙

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I’m a huge Elton John fan. He told an interviewer he was offered the part of Harold by the director when he was just starting his mega career. He says he turned it down because he wanted to focus on his music.

He would have made a cute Harold, though.

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It wouldn't have been as magical in my opinion if he had taken the role. Harold needed to be a bit odd rather than standard male handsome to help explain his difficulties with his mother's expectations for normalcy.

That is interesting though, thanks for sharing.

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Love "Harold & Maude"! I featured it in this piece:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice

"Little Miss Sunshine" qualifies under the criteria you outlined for a great movie ("purchase worthy soundtrack, moving message - life changing even-impactful …").

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Little Miss Sunshine is certainly up there with all time greats. Popcorn time

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🍿 Here are some of my Down Under favorites:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/i/42190390/movie-recs

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Jane Campion! 💞

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Maiden - documentary about Tracy Edwards putting together an all- female crew for the whitbread round the World Sailing race.

My Neighbor Totoro - plus everything else from Studio Ghibli 😃 Plus a documentary about Studio Ghibli itself!

Dark Horse - the documentary ( not the Disney version ) about the patrons of a pub in a rundown Welsh town putting together a Syndicate to breed a racehorse

my memory isn't good enough to go back to my youth !

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JD - Wonderful selection. A touchingly twisted romp through social mores. Saw it at the theatre in the day, so much to chose from but these are two of my favorite scenes which made me ROFLMAO:

Meeting Edith: https://youtu.be/OjS6I4MVnkw?t=57

Meeting Candy: https://youtu.be/ZeF18IorXS4?t=30

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The mother, the facial expressions at the end of the second clip, so real. Maybe you have to be an odd duck child to appreciate this movie fully, a controlled child. A need to rebel and a need to learn how to do so.

The character actress who joins in and does her own over-acted death scene is funny too.

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My brother is the one who adored "Harold and Maude," and I'm glad that he told me to go see it (playing at a beautiful vintage theater in Los Angeles at the time), as I enjoyed it immensely. His other recommendation? Gigi (1958), starring Leslie Caron and set in Paris in the Belle Epoque. Witty and charming. That one is my favorite.

Runners up are Blade Runner (1982) and Persuasion (1995). Persuasion is on youtube, so I've watched it many times -- a "comfort movie". I also love the 1970 Brit TV film of Jane Eyre (also on youtube) starring George C Scott and Susannah York.

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