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Lucy Liu’s favourite comedy movie of all time

(Credits: Miramax / YouTube Still) Sun 23 November 2025 9:30, UK There aren’t many icons of comedy who…
#NewsBeep #News #Movies #BeingThere #Entertainment #LucyLiu #PeterSellers #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/279045/

Being There

Wilco release their second on October 29, 1996. I've worn out two CDs. Probably be three if not for technology.It's billed as "two albums for the price of one" as a result of a deal between Jeff Tweedy and Reprise Records. Listen to Being There by Wilco on Amazon Music ... #wilco #beingthere #90smusic #americana #altcountry #altrock #JeffTweedy #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky

http://robinbannks.com/2025/10/29/being-there/

Chance the Gardener (Chauncey Gardener)

Being There

#BeingThere

#CharactersPlayTheLottery
#HashTagGames

Sometimes I think of using Western Union only to say the line, 'I ainʼt taking no jive from no Western Union messenger.' #BeingThere

Happy 91st, Shirley! 🎂

Shirley MacLaine Moments That Always Leave Us Starstruck | TCM 🎞️

We are wishing a very happy birthday to the legend that is Shirley MacLaine! From playing a gangster's fiancée in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) to the glamorous wife of a business mogul in Being There (1979), these are just a few of our favorite stand-out roles of hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwi1ymWrNWs

#ShirleyMacLaine #Acting #TCM #BeingThere #Movies #HappyBirthday #ClassicMovies

#BeingThere screenshot

Loved this movie, really need to see it again!
#BeingThere

@rsmon77 #SundayFunnies #BeingThere

RIP Chance “Chauncey Gardiner” The Gardener, you would have loved the pivot to short-form video
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

That’s going to be a *very* short book
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

And our #SundayFunnies leading men this week are Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart
#BeingThere #PeterSellers #MelvynDouglas #JackWarden #RichardDysart #RichardBasehart

And our #SundayFunnies leading men this week are Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart
#BeingThere #PeterSellers #MelvynDouglas #JackWarden #RichardDysart #RichardBasehart

And our #SundayFunnies leading men this week are Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart
#BeingThere #PeterSellers #MelvynDouglas #JackWarden #RichardDysart #RichardBasehart

And our #SundayFunnies leading men this week are Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart
#BeingThere #PeterSellers #MelvynDouglas #JackWarden #RichardDysart #RichardBasehart

And our #SundayFunnies leading men this week are Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart
#BeingThere #PeterSellers #MelvynDouglas #JackWarden #RichardDysart #RichardBasehart

This week’s #SundayFunnies leading lady is Shirley MacLaine
#BeingThere #ShirleyMacLaine

Peter Sellers is often a masterclass of subtlety and intricate detail and he’s especially so in “Being There”
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

RIP Chance “Chauncey Gardiner” The Gardener, you would have loved the combination of the iPad and in-car WiFi
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

Apparently, Hal Ashby was obsessed with “Basketball Jones” so it would often be paired up as a short before his films
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

@MatthewTitus88 *insert jaunty funk music here*
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

Even the music is great in this
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

I was so annoyed and infuriated when I learned that Ray Jay Johnson was a real thing and not just a gag on “The Simpsons”
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

This is one of my absolute favorite films ever
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

Here for “Being There”
#SundayFunnies #BeingThere

Chauncey Gardner: “there will be growth in the spring.” #BeingThere

Juxtaposed w #la #fires (caused by us magical powers #dems)

All you got to be is white in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0pu8AteU4

"Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want." -- #BeingThere

#movies #usPolitics

Being There

Wilco release their second on October 29, 1996. I've worn out two CDs. Probably be three if not for technology. #wilco #beingthere #90smusic #americana #altcountry #altrock #JeffTweedy Listen to Being There by Wilco on Amazon Music ...

https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/being-there/

Send positive vibes that the giant package of stuff I bought during the half-off flash sale at #Criterion arrives when I can spirit it quietly away and not when my spouse will be there to roll her eyes at me.

I got:
#DoTheRightThing
#SecretsAndLies
#BeyondTheHills
#RepoMan
#MysteryTrain
#BeingThere

Send positive vibes that the giant package of stuff I bought during the half-off flash sale at #Criterion arrives when I can spirit it quietly away and not when my spouse will be there to roll her eyes at me.

I got:
#DoTheRightThing
#SecretsAndLies
#BeyondTheHills
#RepoMan
#MysteryTrain
#BeingThere

Send positive vibes that the giant package of stuff I bought during the half-off flash sale at #Criterion arrives when I can spirit it quietly away and not when my spouse will be there to roll her eyes at me.

I got:
#DoTheRightThing
#SecretsAndLies
#BeyondTheHills
#RepoMan
#MysteryTrain
#BeingThere

Send positive vibes that the giant package of stuff I bought during the half-off flash sale at #Criterion arrives when I can spirit it quietly away and not when my spouse will be there to roll her eyes at me.

I got:
#DoTheRightThing
#SecretsAndLies
#BeyondTheHills
#RepoMan
#MysteryTrain
#BeingThere

Send positive vibes that the giant package of stuff I bought during the half-off flash sale at #Criterion arrives when I can spirit it quietly away and not when my spouse will be there to roll her eyes at me.

I got:
#DoTheRightThing
#SecretsAndLies
#BeyondTheHills
#RepoMan
#MysteryTrain
#BeingThere

Peter Sellers in Oltre il Giardino (1979) per la regia di Hal Ashby
#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #HalAshby #PeterSellers #CalebDeschanel #BeingThere

https://www.spoileralert.eu/2023/04/27/being-there/1910/

What an incredible performance by Peter Sellers in a straight role in this 1979 movie, with a strong Forrest Gump vibe. Sellers missed out on Best Actor #Oscar but surely deserved a win.

#movies #films #Sellers #PeterSellers #pinkpanther #beingthere #1970s #70s #halashby #goons #cinema

I didn’t know “Basketball Jones” was a real song/short film until I was in college🫣
#TCMParty #BeingThere

Very here for “Being There”
#TCMParty #BeingThere #DisabilityPrideMonth #FilmDis #DisabilityInFilm

Peter Sellers in Oltre il Giardino (1979) per la regia di Hal Ashby
#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #HalAshby #PeterSellers #CalebDeschanel #BeingThere

https://www.spoileralert.eu/2023/04/27/being-there/1910/

What an incredible performance by Peter Sellers in a straight role in this 1979 movie, with a strong Forrest Gump vibe. Sellers missed out on Best Actor #Oscar but surely deserved a win.

#movies #films #Sellers #PeterSellers #pinkpanther #beingthere #1970s #70s #halashby #goons #cinema

What an incredible performance by Peter Sellers in a straight role in this 1979 movie, with a strong Forrest Gump vibe. Sellers missed out on Best Actor #Oscar but surely deserved a win.

#movies #films #Sellers #PeterSellers #pinkpanther #beingthere #1970s #70s #halashby #goons #cinema

What an incredible performance by Peter Sellers in a straight role in this 1979 movie, with a strong Forrest Gump vibe. Sellers missed out on Best Actor #Oscar but surely deserved a win.

#movies #films #Sellers #PeterSellers #pinkpanther #beingthere #1970s #70s #halashby #goons #cinema

What an incredible performance by Peter Sellers in a straight role in this 1979 movie, with a strong Forrest Gump vibe. Sellers missed out on Best Actor #Oscar but surely deserved a win.

#movies #films #Sellers #PeterSellers #pinkpanther #beingthere #1970s #70s #halashby #goons #cinema

Here's some #writingadvice: Characters in a #story must interact with the place in which a #scene is set.

All too often, I've read the work of aspiring authors and felt like the story was simply talking heads. Nothing more than a script. The setting had all the dimension of a matte painting, and served only as a #background. It's a newbie error to not have your #characters interact with their surroundings.

#Conflict is something that gets pounded into our head from the instant we first let someone read our work. Conflict occurs when characters interact with one another. A "sense of place" requires your characters to interact with their environment, to do something. It's the difference between talking to a friend on the phone in contrast to talking with a friend while shopping together.

I did a lot of thinking about this because I added many of these interactions while revising the initial draft of a chapter. It's always best to avoid anything that causes you to exit the zone, to stop writing. Writing dialog and action in this case was most important. Nevertheless, some of the most interesting stuff happened when I added the environmentals.

Briefly, my character is annoyed as she's leaving a bakery, feeling stood up. Another male acquaintance shows up. He blocks the doorway. Another patron stops confused just outside. She almost runs into the friend and briefly thinks he smells of cinnamon. She likes cinnamon and has a chance to smile in a way the acquaintance misinterprets. She remembers she's in a bakery, listing cinnamon, butter, and yeast smells, and chides herself. She further remembers and returns to the counter to pick up her pastry box, seeing it wrapped with twine by the baker. The acquaintance puts his arm around her shoulders. #BeingThere, in this case, in a bakery.

Even walking on the street is an opportunity to interact, to get crowded into a boxy newspaper rack, to walk around slow pedestrians into the street putting a foot into the wet gutter, to smell where a dog has recently been, to wait for a light to turn green at a crosswalk while looking nervously at a watch, or to wave to a neighbor while talking to a companion.

Even a meal is an opportunity to clatter silverware against a plate, to gesture with a drink in hand to eject liquid to avoid or to apologize about, or to wipe mustard off of a chin that might be your character's, a boyfriend's, or a child's.

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#setTheScene
#interactions
#fivesenses

As an aside, #Wilco show how boxsets & deluxe should be done. This - as with #BeingThere & #AM - was very reasonably priced, overstuffed with great content, well presented, well mastered, & well pressed. The 2020 reissue was mastered by #BernieGrundman.

Here's some #writingadvice: Characters in a #story must interact with the place in which a #scene is set.

All too often, I've read the work of aspiring authors and felt like the story was simply talking heads. Nothing more than a script. The setting had all the dimension of a matte painting, and served only as a #background. It's a newbie error to not have your #characters interact with their surroundings.

#Conflict is something that gets pounded into our head from the instant we first let someone read our work. Conflict occurs when characters interact with one another. A "sense of place" requires your characters to interact with their environment, to do something. It's the difference between talking to a friend on the phone in contrast to talking with a friend while shopping together.

I did a lot of thinking about this because I added many of these interactions while revising the initial draft of a chapter. It's always best to avoid anything that causes you to exit the zone, to stop writing. Writing dialog and action in this case was most important. Nevertheless, some of the most interesting stuff happened when I added the environmentals.

Briefly, my character is annoyed as she's leaving a bakery, feeling stood up. Another male acquaintance shows up. He blocks the doorway. Another patron stops confused just outside. She almost runs into the friend and briefly thinks he smells of cinnamon. She likes cinnamon and has a chance to smile in a way the acquaintance misinterprets. She remembers she's in a bakery, listing cinnamon, butter, and yeast smells, and chides herself. She further remembers and returns to the counter to pick up her pastry box, seeing it wrapped with twine by the baker. The acquaintance puts his arm around her shoulders. #BeingThere, in this case, in a bakery.

Even walking on the street is an opportunity to interact, to get crowded into a boxy newspaper rack, to walk around slow pedestrians into the street putting a foot into the wet gutter, to smell where a dog has recently been, to wait for a light to turn green at a crosswalk while looking nervously at a watch, or to wave to a neighbor while talking to a companion.

Even a meal is an opportunity to clatter silverware against a plate, to gesture with a drink in hand to eject liquid to avoid or to apologize about, or to wipe mustard off of a chin that might be your character's, a boyfriend's, or a child's.

(Please boost if you found this useful so other may see it.)

#setTheScene
#interactions
#fivesenses

Here's some #writingadvice: Characters in a #story must interact with the place in which a #scene is set.

All too often, I've read the work of aspiring authors and felt like the story was simply talking heads. Nothing more than a script. The setting had all the dimension of a matte painting, and served only as a #background. It's a newbie error to not have your #characters interact with their surroundings.

#Conflict is something that gets pounded into our head from the instant we first let someone read our work. Conflict occurs when characters interact with one another. A "sense of place" requires your characters to interact with their environment, to do something. It's the difference between talking to a friend on the phone in contrast to talking with a friend while shopping together.

I did a lot of thinking about this because I added many of these interactions while revising the initial draft of a chapter. It's always best to avoid anything that causes you to exit the zone, to stop writing. Writing dialog and action in this case was most important. Nevertheless, some of the most interesting stuff happened when I added the environmentals.

Briefly, my character is annoyed as she's leaving a bakery, feeling stood up. Another male acquaintance shows up. He blocks the doorway. Another patron stops confused just outside. She almost runs into the friend and briefly thinks he smells of cinnamon. She likes cinnamon and has a chance to smile in a way the acquaintance misinterprets. She remembers she's in a bakery, listing cinnamon, butter, and yeast smells, and chides herself. She further remembers and returns to the counter to pick up her pastry box, seeing it wrapped with twine by the baker. The acquaintance puts his arm around her shoulders. #BeingThere, in this case, in a bakery.

Even walking on the street is an opportunity to interact, to get crowded into a boxy newspaper rack, to walk around slow pedestrians into the street putting a foot into the wet gutter, to smell where a dog has recently been, to wait for a light to turn green at a crosswalk while looking nervously at a watch, or to wave to a neighbor while talking to a companion.

Even a meal is an opportunity to clatter silverware against a plate, to gesture with a drink in hand to eject liquid to avoid or to apologize about, or to wipe mustard off of a chin that might be your character's, a boyfriend's, or a child's.

(Please boost if you found this useful so other may see it.)

#setTheScene
#interactions
#fivesenses

Here's some #writingadvice: Characters in a #story must interact with the place in which a #scene is set.

All too often, I've read the work of aspiring authors and felt like the story was simply talking heads. Nothing more than a script. The setting had all the dimension of a matte painting, and served only as a #background. It's a newbie error to not have your #characters interact with their surroundings.

#Conflict is something that gets pounded into our head from the instant we first let someone read our work. Conflict occurs when characters interact with one another. A "sense of place" requires your characters to interact with their environment, to do something. It's the difference between talking to a friend on the phone in contrast to talking with a friend while shopping together.

I did a lot of thinking about this because I added many of these interactions while revising the initial draft of a chapter. It's always best to avoid anything that causes you to exit the zone, to stop writing. Writing dialog and action in this case was most important. Nevertheless, some of the most interesting stuff happened when I added the environmentals.

Briefly, my character is annoyed as she's leaving a bakery, feeling stood up. Another male acquaintance shows up. He blocks the doorway. Another patron stops confused just outside. She almost runs into the friend and briefly thinks he smells of cinnamon. She likes cinnamon and has a chance to smile in a way the acquaintance misinterprets. She remembers she's in a bakery, listing cinnamon, butter, and yeast smells, and chides herself. She further remembers and returns to the counter to pick up her pastry box, seeing it wrapped with twine by the baker. The acquaintance puts his arm around her shoulders. #BeingThere, in this case, in a bakery.

Even walking on the street is an opportunity to interact, to get crowded into a boxy newspaper rack, to walk around slow pedestrians into the street putting a foot into the wet gutter, to smell where a dog has recently been, to wait for a light to turn green at a crosswalk while looking nervously at a watch, or to wave to a neighbor while talking to a companion.

Even a meal is an opportunity to clatter silverware against a plate, to gesture with a drink in hand to eject liquid to avoid or to apologize about, or to wipe mustard off of a chin that might be your character's, a boyfriend's, or a child's.

(Please boost if you found this useful so other may see it.)

#setTheScene
#interactions
#fivesenses