News about Peter Sellers

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

Here are 100 films that I believe every person should see at least once in their lifetime, and all of them should make you laugh, cry, gasp, or think. In some instances, perhaps all four are present. I hope my list would bring you some good cinematic treats, or better still, introduce you to them. Happy viewing!

Biden has been away from the fairies for years, which is the truth of the matter. Forget about not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Without falling flat on his face, sleepy Uncle Joe can barely put one foot in front of the other. After disembarking from the Presidential helicopter, Marine One, we've seen him stumbling up the steps of Air Force One, falling off a bike, tumbling off stage, and wandering into the bushes. Biden is fully owning his faculties, according to the hurly-planned press conference on Thursday. It had the opposite effect. He appeared to be a quarter of an hour late because of Jeopardy, America's most popular senior game show, which is especially popular with seniors. Biden just about managed to read a prepared statement from the autocue, but the pretence fell apart when he had to go off-script.

William, Kate, and the children attended Westminster Abbey's carol service together, breaking with the late Queen's tradition that those first in the line of succession travel separately. We may have ended up with Harry as the heir apparent and Meghan as Princess of Wales in the case of an unexpected disaster. In the line of succession, the King has not changed Harry and Andrew's positions. For the sake of everybody, William might reconsider his travel plans in the future, or beg your father to modify the succession laws.

Tramp, a wealthy, popular, and royal playground, has closed suddenly, and it seems that it has been illegally sold. After members of a £1,000 yearly subscription received an email advising them that the club has been canceled, a byword for nocturnal overindulgence, inebriation, and sinking into sensual dissatisfaction in Mayfair seems to be uncertain. Johnny Gold, the club's legendary Founder, opened the club on December 18, 1969. Mick Jagger was a founder member of the First Night, and hellraisers Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, and Richard Harris were with him on the opening night. Tramp became a film and rock 'n' roll celebrity overnight. When in London, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Marlon Brando, and Charlton Heston were all regulars. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will both be able to pass by. On one night, three James Bonds, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, and George Lazenby were all in the club having dinner at the same time, which was Tramp's pulling power. Jack Nicholson French-kissed a tramp outside the club's unassuming entrance on Jermyn Street one night. Keith Moon, the Who's legendary drummer, had a penchant for removing all of his clothes and dancing naked. He was barred from removing a crystal chandelier on one occasion, but after his chauffeur returned with £500, he was allowed back 48 hours later, naked and strapped to his iconic white Rolls-Royce's bonnet before bursting away at dawn. George Best was at Tramp. Best once punched regular Sir Michael Caine on a night when the footballer appeared to muscle in on Bill Wyman's birthday, when the footballer uninhibitedly turned up with almost a dozen women in tow. In fact, it was reported that girls dressed up for Annabel's nearby Tramp and then they erupted for Tramp. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was assured of her entry when she turned up in nothing more than a bikini under an open fur coat for her 21st birthday party.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Could this be enough to make even Prince Andrew (right) break into a sweat? Tramp, the London nightclub where he reportedly whirled Virginia Roberts round the dancefloor, has abruptly closed in perplexing circumstances. Only four weeks ago when Tramp hosted Luther actor Idris Elba to celebrate the unveiling of his rosé champagne, Porte Noire, there was no hint of impending drama. But, just a fortnight later, five main executives, including Guy Sangster, son of late horse-breeding tycoon Robert Sangster, and Kevin Doyle, who purchased the club for £4 million, resigned in dissatisfaction with Tramp, which now owns Tramp.

Daniel Cowling, a historian at the National Army Museum, delving into Foreign Office papers, private diaries, newspaper reports, and interviews.

TIMOTHY WEST: Timothy West's book chronicled how Prunella Scales (left and right with Mr West) almost dropped out of her role as Sybil in Fawlty Towers, making her one of Britain's best-loved actresses. He relates how they fell in love on the set of a BBC play and devised a complex plot to bring an end to his first marriage in this final extract. Mr West said that actor Peter Sellers (inset) wanted to take her on a date months after he and Mrs Scales became a couple.

People are right to be concerned about new eating experiences, particularly curries and spices that can burn the tongue 'like a live coal,' and 'cause tears to flow,' according to Daniel Bender, a professor of food studies in Toronto.'

The moorings off Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, have provided an idyllic setting for creative people who lived on the bohemian side for the past 30 years. However, their way of life is under attack, and many of the residents believe that measures to deny them mooring licenses and increasing maintenance fees could make them destitute and destroy the community's forever.

ANN LESLIE: Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli, Sean Connery, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Samuel Connery, John Betjeman, Sammy Davis Jnr. .. . There was barely a celebrity in film, books, and theatre, though I didn't interview as a young showbusiness reporter in the 1960s. Simply typing a few of the names at random brings me right back to long chummy chats in plush restaurants or even luxury hotel suites, or in gritty Parisian suburbs. Some of the actors wanted our chats to be more than chummy. David Niven (left), a worldwide symbol of the exemplary English gentleman, was one of many. We'd all meet up in London and he'd regale me with Hollywood tales about what he and his chum Errol Flynn will get up to in, as they christened it, 'Cirrhosis-on-Sea'.

When it goes under the hammer next month, an Aston Martin (left) owned by comedy legend Peter Sellers (top right) is expected to sell for £2.6 million. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale next month, international auction house Bonhams is auctioning off a 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT, based on the actor in The Wrong Arm of the Law. Thanks to a combination of the car's smooth 3.7-litre engine, its triple Webers, its 12-plug head, and its weight-saving magnesium-alloy body panels, Perspex rear windows, and its distinctive sloping headlight covers, it can hit a top speed of more than 150 mph.

The Book of the Week, Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, asks if artists stand accused of doing or saying of doing or saying something awful, are we allowed to carry on enjoying their art?

They are a family whose names were based on a Peter Sellers sketch comedy and are suspected of hundreds of murders and hundreds of millions of pounds in jewelry stolen. However, the heyday of the Pink Panthers criminal network around the world may be coming to an end. According to police in Holland, they are closing down on suspects from the gang's last big heist, which resulted in gold jewelry worth more than $26.5 million.

Although Mr Bean is best known for his green mini, Rowan Atkinson is a huge fan of fast sport cars and is hoping to make money off his Lord Blue Lancia. On Saturday, Lancia HF Integrale Evo II, the performer's sporty 1993 Lancia Evo II, was estimated to sell for up to £75,000 at a classic vehicle auction in Warwickshire. When Atkinson bought the car in May 2021, it had covered just over 87,000 kilometers. The T.V. During the years of his acting, the actor has spent thousands of dollars on the vehicle. The petrolhead spent £2,500 for its' maintenance in 2021, and shortly after that, £1,800 was spent on a light paint refresh.

A car enthusiast has chosen seven classic Lotus Elans from his private collection and it is expected to sell for £700,000.000 from the auction next month. Many of the British sports cars from the collection have well-known former keepers, one owned by Peter Sellers and another gifted to a Formula One champion weeks before his untimely death. The vehicles will be auctioned on February 25th by Silverstone Auctions, who claims that there will never be a chance for petrol heads to get their hands on classic Lotus models from a collection 'put together with a master's eye.' Here's a look at each of the vehicles available...

Robert Downey Jr. was just six years old when he took the first step on his rocky road to heroin use and prison. During a poker night at the family's house in New York, his father (pictured with him left) was seen sipping a glass of white wine. However, rather than removing the glass from his young son's hands, he handed him a cannabis joint and told him to enjoy it instead. Such was cult film-maker Robert Downey Sr's unorthodox approach to childcare. Robert Downey Sr, a tyrant film producer who beat his demons to become the world's highest-paid actor, was far less well-known than his Hollywood-star son, who was also a heroin addict for a large part of his life.

Queen Elizabeth sat for a portrait taken by fugitive artist Curtis Hooper in 1986, and her son has posted a series of her beloved monarch's after her death on Thursday. Hooper, a well-known stockbroker-turned-artist, was given the rare opportunity to paint the British monarch in Buckingham Palace for $260,000. So that he could get her lip coloring correct, the monarch left him with a lipstick kiss on a handkerchief. Her Majesty had already said that she wasn't quite correct in her lipstick, so she left her with an imprint of her lips that he later kept.

Boris Johnson (left) is house hunting in the suburbs. According to The Sun, he's got his eye on Dulwich Village, South London (pictured bottom right), where Mrs Thatcher moved when she was booted out of No. 10. 'Carrie and Boris are looking somewhere they can put roots away from central London's glare,' a source told the newspaper.' It won't come cheap. A semi in the area is priced at just shy of £2 million.