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Inspector Clouseau (film)
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Inspector Clouseau is a 1968 United Artists feature film. It was directed by Bud Yorkin, written by Frank Waldman and Tom Waldman and it was filmed by Mirisch Films at the MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood and in Europe. Screenwriter Frank Waldman would later co-write The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Tom Waldman would co-write Trail with Frank. Inspector Clouseau does not feature Peter Sellers as Clouseau, was not directed by Blake Edwards, all three were involved at that time with the film The Party. The Mirisch Company wanted to proceed with this film, so when Sellers and Edwards declined to participate, the film received mostly negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office. An organized crime wave strikes across Europe, suspecting a mole within Scotland Yard, the Prime Minister brings Clouseau in to solve the case. Clouseau foils two assassination attempts but is subsequently kidnapped, the gang uses him to make masks of his face which they later use to commit a series of daring bank robberies across Switzerland. Eventually, Clouseau foils the plot and unmasks the traitor within the Yard, producer Walter Mirisch was interested in a third Clouseau film, but Sellers repeatedly refused the role. Following Alan Arkins success in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Blake Edwards turned down the directors chores so Mirisch found Bud Yorkin. Just prior to shooting, Sellers contacted Mirisch stating that only he could play the role and would, the film was produced by Louis Rachmil as one of Mirisch Films United Kingdoms film company qualifying for Eady Levy funds. Location scenes for Inspector Clouseau were shot in Europe, the sign reads Reposite En Pace, Norman Lear, 1903-1962. Inspector Clouseau at the Internet Movie Database Inspector Clouseau at the TCM Movie Database Inspector Clouseau at AllMovie
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Clouseau (band)
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Clouseau is a Belgian pop group, having success in Belgium and the Netherlands since being established in the late 1980s. Apart from a brush with English material in the early 1990s they perform in Dutch and their biggest hits are Daar gaat ze and Passie. Clouseau was set up by Bob Savenberg, who named the band after Inspector Clouseau, initially, Clouseau only performed at local venues. Singer Koen Wauters soon left the group to sing for local band. The same year they were discovered at the Marktrock festival in Leuven and their first single Brandweer sold 427 copies. Their television debut followed in November of that year, in 1989 Clouseau participated in the Belgian tryouts for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Anne. Clouseau came in second, but Anne became a hit in Belgium. The popularity of Clouseau in Belgium skyrocketed, and that year Clouseau produced its first album, in 1990 Daar gaat ze topped the singles charts in both Belgium and the Netherlands, several more hits followed. On September 30, Tjen Berghmans left the group after a dispute, in October 1990 Clouseau released their second album, Of zo. In March 1991, Karel Theys departed, leaving Clouseau as a three-piece, a month later Clouseau came in 16th in the Eurovision Song Contest with Geef het op, but their participation resulted in a European breakthrough. Afterwards it was announced that Koen Wauters received an army call-up, because of his Clouseau-commitments he only had to serve four weeks, fall 1991, Clouseau released their first English language album, Close Encounters was a huge success in Germany. The Dutch fans were keen on the idea of Koen Wauters singing in another language. In 1992 Clouseau released a Dutch-language album, Doorgaan, at the same time, they supported Swedish group Roxette on their European tour performing the Close Encounters-material. The second English-language album, 1993s In every small town was recorded in Los Angeles, however, the album failed critically, receiving little attention outside the Benelux countries. Since then, Clouseau has refrained from producing English-language music, in 1995 they released the Oker album, which featured the single Passie. In 1996, founder Bob Savenberg left the group, at the time he hosted the television format of the Ultratop 50. Bob Savenberg now works with upcoming artists as a manager, in September 1996 Clouseau released the Adrenaline album, which was promoted with a large tour. On December 22,1998 singer Koen Wauters married the Dutch television journalist,1999 saw the release of In Stereo
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The Pink Panther (film series)
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The Pink Panther is a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The series began with the release of The Pink Panther, the role of Clouseau was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, elements and characters inspired by the films were adapted into other media, including books, comic books and animated series. In the movies, the Pink Panther is a large and valuable pink diamond which is first shown in the film in the series. The diamond is called the Pink Panther because the flaw at its centre, the phrase reappears in the title of the fourth film The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the centre of the plot. The phrase was used for all the subsequent films in the series and it ultimately appeared in six of the eleven films. The first film in the series had an opening sequence, created by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and set to the theme music by Mancini. The character would be featured in the opening of film in the movie series except A Shot in the Dark. Although there are two later Pink Panther films starring Steve Martin, most of the films in the series starred Sellers as Inspector Clouseau and were directed, the jazz-based theme music was composed by Henry Mancini. In addition to the sequences, the theme often accompanies any suspenseful sequence in the first film. The Pink Panther of the title is a diamond supposedly containing a flaw which forms the image of a leaping panther which can be seen if held up to light in a certain way. This is explained in the beginning of the first film, and the camera zooms in on the diamond to reveal the blurry flaw, the plot of the first film is based on the theft of this diamond. The diamond reappears in later films in the series, The Return of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther. It also appears in the revival of the Inspector Clouseau character in the much later Steve Martin films The Pink Panther, many critics, including Leonard Maltin, regard this film as the best in the series. In the original film, released in 1963, the focus was on David Nivens role as Sir Charles Litton, the infamous jewel thief nicknamed the Phantom. The popularity of Clouseau caused him to become the character in subsequent Pink Panther films. Mancinis theme, with variations in arrangement, is used at the start of all, mancinis other themes for the first film include an Italian-language set-piece called Meglio stasera, whose purpose seems primarily to introduce young actress Fran Jeffries. Portions of a version also appear in the films musical score several times
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The Inspector
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The Inspector is a series of 1960s television cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The title character is based on Jacques Clouseau, a comical French police officer who is the character in the Pink Panther series of films. In contrast to Inspector Clouseau, who is portrayed as completely inept. Humor came from the sometimes surreal villains and situations to whom the Inspector was exposed, through these difficult circumstances, criminals often get the better of him and he must face the wrath of his ill-tempered, bullying Commissioner who holds him in well-deserved contempt. In the majority of the cartoons, the Inspector usually tells Sergeant Deux-Deux, whenever Deux-Deux says Si, Dont say Sí, say Oui, to which Deux-Deux would reply Sí, I mean Oui. In Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat, Deux-Deux was advised not to say Oui-sick, at a time of panic, Deux-Deux exclaims ¡Holy frijoles. Sometimes, Deux-Deux ends up as the winner, when he arrests the culprit, usually without much of a struggle, as in The Pique Poquette of Paris and Ape Suzette. Pat Harrington, Jr. provided voices for both the Inspector as well as his assistant, the Barcelona-born Spanish gendarme Deux-Deux, a common French nickname for Eduard/Eduardo, the frustrated Commissioner was voiced primarily by Paul Frees. Larry Storch, Marvin Miller and Mark Skor also alternated providing the Commissioners voice, Miller also assumed the role of both the Inspector and Sgt. Deux-Deux in the wraparound bumpers produced for the season of The Pink Panther Show. The first entry in the series, The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation, was preceeded screenings of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The music used for the titles of the cartoon was the song A Shot in the Dark by Henry Mancini, additional music in the shows was composed initially by William Lava, then by Walter Greene later on. Two shorts had their own version of the theme music, Napoleon Blown-Aparte. All 34 entries appeared during the season of The Pink Panther Show. The first season of The Pink Panther is available for viewing on Amazon Video in the United States, on April 26,2016, Kino Lorber released The Inspector, The DePatie-Freling Collection on DVD and Blu-ray. This 2 disc set collects the 34 Inspector shorts along with retrospective featurettes focusing on DePatie-Freling Enterprises, the Inspector was revived in 1993 for the syndicated series, The Pink Panther, voiced by Brian George. The Inspector often works alongside the Pink Panther when he is depicted in law enforcement, big Cartoon Database The Inspector at Don Marksteins Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 17,2016
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Peter Sellers
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Peter Sellers, CBE was an English film actor, comedian and singer. Born in Portsmouth, Sellers made his debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres and he first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association. He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Readers wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain, after the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and eventually became a regular performer on various BBC radio shows. During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the radio series The Goon Show. Sellers began his career during the 1950s. Although the bulk of his work was comedic, often parodying characters of authority such as officers or policemen. Films demonstrating his artistic range include Im All Right Jack, Stanley Kubricks Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, Whats New, Casino Royale, The Party, Being There and the five films of the Pink Panther series. Satire and black humour were major features of many of his films and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, for Im All Right Jack and for the original Pink Panther film, The Pink Panther and was nominated as Best Actor three times. In 1980 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in Being There, turner Classic Movies calls Sellers one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century. In his personal life, Sellers struggled with depression and insecurities, an enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played. Sellers was married four times, and had three children from his first two marriages and he died as a result of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54. English filmmakers the Boulting brothers described Sellers as the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin, Sellers was born on 8 September 1925, in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. His parents were Yorkshire-born William Bill Sellers and Agnes Doreen Peg, both were variety entertainers, Peg was in the Ray Sisters troupe. Although christened Richard Henry, his parents called him Peter, after his elder stillborn brother, Peg Sellers was related to the pugilist Daniel Mendoza, whom Sellers greatly revered, and whose engraving later hung in his office. At one time Sellers planned to use Mendozas image for his companys logo. The family constantly toured, causing much upheaval and unhappiness in the young Sellerss life, Sellers maintained a very close relationship with his mother, which his friend Spike Milligan later considered unhealthy for a grown man. As an only child though, he spent much time alone, in 1935 the Sellers family moved to North London and settled in Muswell Hill
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The Pink Panther (1963 film)
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The film introduced the cartoon character of the same name, in an opening credits sequence animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The film was selected in 2010 to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry, being deemed culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah, the Pink Panther and this huge pink gem has an unusual flaw, looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a leaping panther. 20 years later, Dala has been forced into exile following her fathers death, the new government declares her precious diamond the property of the people and petitions the World Court to determine ownership. Dala, however, refuses to relinquish it, Dala goes on holiday at an exclusive ski resort in Cortina dAmpezzo. Also staying there is English playboy Sir Charles Lytton —who leads a life as a jewel thief called The Phantom—and has his eyes on the Pink Panther. His charming American nephew George arrives at the resort unexpectedly, George is really a playboy drowning in gambling debts, but poses as a recent college graduate about to enter the Peace Corps so his uncle continues to support his lavish lifestyle. On the Phantoms trail is French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the Inspector doesnt realize his wife Simone is the paramour of Sir Charles and acts as a fence for the Phantom. Meanwhile, Simone dodges her amorous husband while trying to avoid her lovers playboy nephew who has decided to make the older woman his latest conquest. Sir Charles has grown enamored of Dala and is ambivalent about carrying out the heist, the night before their departure, George accidentally learns of his uncles criminal activities. During a costume party at Dalas villa in Rome, Sir Charles and his nephew separately attempt to steal the diamond, the Inspector discovers both men at the crime scene. They escape during the confusion of the evenings climactic fireworks display, a frantic car chase through the streets of Rome ensues. Sir Charles and George are both arrested after all the vehicles collide with one another in the town square, later, Simone informs Dala that Sir Charles wished to call off the theft and asks her to help in his defense. Dala then reveals that it was she herself who stole the diamond to avoid turning it over to the new government of her homeland after the World Court ruled in their favor. However, the Princess is also smitten with Sir Charles and has a plan to him from prison. At the trial, the calls as their sole witness a surprised Inspector Clouseau. The barrister asks a series of questions that suggest Clouseau himself could be The Phantom, an unnerved Clouseau pulls out his handkerchief to wipe the perspiration from his brow, and the jewel drops from it. Great commotion follows while the Inspector faints, as Clouseau is taken away to prison, he is mobbed by a throng of enamored women
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Alan Arkin
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Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director, musician, and singer. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his performances in The Russians Are Coming and he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Argo. Arkin was born Alan Wolf Arkin in Brooklyn, New York City] on March 26,1934, Arkin, a painter and writer, and his wife, Beatrice, a teacher. He was raised in a Jewish family with no emphasis on religion and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany. His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11, during the 1950s Red Scare, Arkins parents were accused of being Communists, and his father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he was vindicated only after his death, Arkin attended Los Angeles City College from 1951 to 1953. With two friends, he formed the music group The Tarriers, in which Arkin sang. It reached #4 on the Billboard magazine chart the year as Harry Belafontes better-known hit version. The group appeared in the 1957 Calypso-exploitation film Calypso Heat Wave, singing Banana Boat Song, from 1958 to 1968, Arkin performed and recorded with the childrens folk group, The Baby Sitters. He also performed the role of Dr. Pangloss in a staging of Leonard Bernsteins operetta Candide, alongside Madeline Kahns Cunegonde. Arkin was an member of the Second City comedy troupe in the 1960s. Arkin is one of six actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. Two years later, he was nominated, for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In 1968, he appeared in the role of Inspector Clouseau after Peter Sellers disassociated himself from the role. His portrayal of Dr. Oatman, a scared and emotionally conflicted psychiatrist treating John Cusacks hit man character Martin Q, Blank in Grosse Point Blank was also well received. At 72 years old, Arkin was the sixth oldest winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, on Broadway, Arkin starred in Enter Laughing and Luv. He also directed The Sunshine Boys, among others, in 1969, Arkins directorial debut was a 12-minute childrens film titled People Soup, starring his sons Adam and Matthew Arkin. His most acclaimed directorial effort is Little Murders, released in 1971, the film opened to a lukewarm review by Roger Greenspan, and a more positive one by Vincent Canby in the New York Times
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Roger Moore
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Sir Roger George Moore KBE is an English actor. He is best known for playing the British secret agent James Bond in seven films between 1973 and 1985 and Simon Templar in The Saint between 1962 and 1969. Roger Moore was born on 14 October 1927 in Stockwell, London and he is the only child of Lillian Lily, a housewife, and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His mother was born in Calcutta, India, of English origin and he attended Battersea Grammar School, but was evacuated to Holsworthy, Devon, during World War II. He was then educated at Dr Challoners Grammar School in Amersham and he then attended the College of the Venerable Bede at the University of Durham, but did not graduate. At 18, shortly after the end of World War II, on 21 September 1946, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 372394 and he eventually became a captain, commanding a small depot in West Germany. He later looked after entertainers for the forces passing through Hamburg. At RADA, Moore was a classmate of his future Bond costar Lois Maxwell, Moore chose to leave RADA after six months in order to seek paid employment as an actor. His film idol was Stewart Granger, at the age of 17, Moore appeared as an extra in the film Caesar and Cleopatra, meeting his idol on the set. Later Moore and Granger were both in The Wild Geese, though they had no scenes together, other actors in that show included Clive Morton and Betty Ann Davies. Although Moore signed a contract with MGM in 1954, the films that followed were not successes and, in his own words. He appeared in Interrupted Melody—billed third under Glenn Ford and Eleanor Parker—a biographical movie about an opera singers recovery from polio and that same year, he played a supporting role in The Kings Thief starring Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven and George Sanders. In the 1956 film Diane, Moore was billed again, this time under Lana Turner and Pedro Armendariz in a 16th-century period piece set in France with Moore playing Prince Henri. Moore was released from his MGM contract after two years following the critical and commercial failure of Diane. After that, he spent a few years mainly doing one-shot parts in television series and he signed another long-term contract to a studio, this time to Warner Bros. His starring role in The Miracle, a version of the play Das Mirakel for Warner Bros. showcasing Carroll Baker as a nun, had turned down by Dirk Bogarde. Eventually, Moore made his name in television, shot mainly in England at Elstree Studios and Buckinghamshire, some of the show was also filmed in California due to a partnership with Columbia Studios Screen Gems
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Steve Martin
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Stephen Glenn Steve Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician. Martin came to notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours, in 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. He was awarded an Honorary Academy Award at the Academys 5th Annual Governors Awards in 2013 and he released his first solo music album, The Crow, New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, in 2009, for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Martin was born on August 14,1945, in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee and Glenn Vernon Martin, Martin was raised in Inglewood, California, and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. Martin was a cheerleader of Garden Grove High School, One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. During World War II, in the United Kingdom, Martins father had appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey, expressing his affection through gifts of cars, bikes, etc. Martins father was stern, and not emotionally open to his son and he was proud but critical, with Martin later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly ones of hatred. Martins first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends, during his free time, he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to potential customers. While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream. By 1960, he had mastered several of the tricks and illusions, there he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in the manner of mentor Wally Boag, frequently performing for tips. After high school graduation, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama, in his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knotts Berry Farm, later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherks influence caused Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, Stormie enrolled at UCLA, about an hours drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives. Inspired by his classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. His time at college changed his life and it changed what I believe and what I think about everything. Something about non-sequiturs appealed to me, in philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, Hey, there is no cause and effect. Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think What if there were no punch lines
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Human
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Modern humans are the only extant members of Hominina tribe, a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. Several of these hominins used fire, occupied much of Eurasia and they began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. In several waves of migration, anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa, the spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide. Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. Humans create complex structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals. These human societies subsequently expanded in size, establishing various forms of government, religion, today the global human population is estimated by the United Nations to be near 7.5 billion. In common usage, the word generally refers to the only extant species of the genus Homo—anatomically and behaviorally modern Homo sapiens. In scientific terms, the meanings of hominid and hominin have changed during the recent decades with advances in the discovery, there is also a distinction between anatomically modern humans and Archaic Homo sapiens, the earliest fossil members of the species. The English adjective human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the words use as a noun dates to the 16th century. The native English term man can refer to the species generally, the species binomial Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th century derivation from Latin homō man, the species-name sapiens means wise or sapient. Note that the Latin word homo refers to humans of either gender, the genus Homo evolved and diverged from other hominins in Africa, after the human clade split from the chimpanzee lineage of the hominids branch of the primates. The closest living relatives of humans are chimpanzees and gorillas, with the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA sequences range between 95% and 99%. The gibbons and orangutans were the first groups to split from the leading to the humans. The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4–8 million years ago during the late Miocene epoch, during this split, chromosome 2 was formed from two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes. There is little evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee. Each of these species has been argued to be an ancestor of later hominins
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Male
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A male organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a female gamete, or ovum. A male cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system, in most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically, but in some species it can be determined due to social, environmental, or other factors. For example, Cymothoa exigua changes sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity, the existence of two sexes seems to have been selected independently across different evolutionary lineages. There is an argument that this pattern was driven by the physical constraints on the mechanisms by which two gametes get together as required for sexual reproduction. Accordingly, sex is defined operationally across species by the type of gametes produced, male/female dimorphism between organisms or reproductive organs of different sexes is not limited to animals, male gametes are produced by chytrids, diatoms and land plants, among others. In land plants, female and male designate not only the female and male gamete-producing organisms and structures, as of the year 2012, the United Arab Emirates has the highest ratio of human males in the world, followed by Qatar. A common symbol used to represent the male sex is the Mars symbol, the symbol is identical to the planetary symbol of Mars. It was first used to sex by Carl Linnaeus in 1751. The symbol is called a stylized representation of the Roman god Mars shield. According to Stearn, however, all the historical evidence favours that it is derived from θρ, the sex of a particular organism may be determined by a number of factors. These may be genetic or environmental, or may change during the course of an organisms life. Although most species with male and female sexes have individuals that are male or female, hermaphroditic animals. Most mammals, including humans, are determined as such by the XY sex-determination system where males have an XY sex chromosome. During reproduction, a male can give either an X sperm or a Y sperm, a Y sperm and an X egg produce a male, while an X sperm and an X egg produce a female. The part of the Y-chromosome which is responsible for maleness is the region of the Y-chromosome. The ZW sex-determination system, where males have a ZZ sex chromosome may be found in birds and some insects and other organisms
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Son of the Pink Panther
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Son of the Pink Panther is a continuation of the The Pink Panther film series. Directed by Blake Edwards, it stars Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseaus illegitimate son, also in this film are Panther regulars Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Graham Stark and a star of the original 1963 film, Claudia Cardinale. It was the film for both filmmaker Blake Edwards and composer Henry Mancini, Edwards retired from movie making, and Mancini died the following year. Police Commissioner Dreyfus is tasked with solving the case of the kidnapped princess, while investigating her disappearance in the South of France, he has a run-in with the kidnappers, and a local gendarme, named Jacques Gambrelli. Gambrelli opens the doors of the kidnappers van and unknowingly spies the Princess who he believes is the drivers sister en route to the hospital. Hans becomes aware that Gambrelli witnessed the Princess in the back of his van, Dreyfus follows Gambrelli to the hospital where he observes the bumbling Gambrellis antics with stumbling around as well as getting his bicycle stuck in a wet cement sidewalk outside the hospital. When Hans henchmen arrive and chase after Gambrelli on his bicycle and he then takes Gambrelli to his home where he lives with his mother Maria whom Dreyfus recognizes as a suspect in a murder case 30 years ago. During the casual encounter with Maria, Dreyfus learns from her Gambrelli is in fact the son of the late Inspector Jacques Clouseau. When Hans men attempt to plant a bomb under the Gambrelli house, it leads to Dreyfus becoming injured instead and sent to the hospital. While Maria decides to stay beside the injured Dreyfus at the hospital to see him recover, Gambrelli finally decides to set off to rescue Princess Yasmin and prove himself his fathers true heir and legacy. Gambrelli recognizes one of Hans henchmen at the hospital who is inquiring about a doctor for Hans who is injured after Yasmin had attempted to escape. Impersonating a doctor, Gambrelli gains access to Hans hideout and clumsy attempts to treat the injured Hans, Gambrelli and Cato fly to Lugash where they meet a government agent at a local restaurant to point them the location of Hans new hideout. After returning to France, Gambrelli is promoted to detective and transfers to Paris metro police force as a full Police Inspector and he attends the wedding of Maria and Dreyfus whom have gotten engaged during their time together while Dreyfus recuperated at the hospital. Balls and Jacqueline Gambrelli where his clumsy antics disrupt the proceedings just like his fathers Inspector Clouseaus antics used to do in previous Pink Panther films, Gambrelli closes the film with the line, That felt good. Jaffar Dermot Crowley as Sergeant Francios Duval Liz Smith as Marta Balls Note, here she returns as Maria Gambrelli, the part originally played by Elke Sommer in A Shot in the Dark. This was the first Pink Panther film in a decade, following two unsuccessful attempts to continue the following the death of Peter Sellers, who originated the character of Clouseau. Considered a relaunch of the series, the plan was for Roberto Benigni—a popular Italian comedian who had yet to be discovered in America—to continue on where Sellers had left off, however, Benigni was not Edwards first choice for the role. Kevin Kline was attached for a while and he is a fan of the series and loves Edwards work, but decided after reading the script that the project just wouldnt work
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Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television. His best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffanys, Days of Wine and Roses,10, Victor/Victoria, often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, in 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he was the son of Donald and his father reportedly left the family before he was born. His mother married again, to Jack McEdwards, who became his stepfather, McEdwards was the son of J. Gordon Edwards, a director of silent movies, and in 1925, he moved the family to Los Angeles and became a film production manager. In an interview with the Village Voice in 1971, Blake Edwards said that he had felt alienated, estranged from my own father. After attending grammar and high school in Los Angeles, Blake began taking jobs as an actor during World War II, Edwards describes this period, I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them. But I wasnt a very cooperative actor, I was a spunky, smart-assed kid. Maybe even then I was indicating that I wanted to give, not take, Edwards served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, where he suffered a severe back injury, which left him in pain for years afterwards. Edwards debut as a director came in 1952 on the television program Four Star Playhouse, Edwardss hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBCs answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, reflecting Edwardss unique humor. Edwards also created, wrote, and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, in the same year, Edwards produced, with Mancinis musical theme, Mr. Lucky, an adventure series on CBS starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin. Mancinis association with Edwards continued in his work, significantly contributing to their success. Operation Petticoat Operation Petticoat was Edwardss first big-budget movie as a director, the film, which starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, became the greatest box-office success of the decade for Universal, and made Edwards a recognized director. Breakfast at Tiffanys Breakfast at Tiffanys, based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a figure with many critics. Andrew Sarris called it the surprise of 1961, and it became a romantic touchstone for college students in the early 1960s. Days of Wine and Roses Days of Wine And Roses, a psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon. It has been described as perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, the film gave another major boost to Edwardss reputation as an important director
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Farce
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In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. Farce is also characterized by humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense. Farces have been written for the stage and film, furthermore, a farce is also often set in one particular location, where all events occur. M. C. P. C. David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd, Allo Allo, ken Friedman, Claptrap Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen, Chance in a Million Miles Tredinnick, Laugh. Alan Ayckbourn, A Small Family Business Miles Tredinnick, It’s Now Or Never, tom Kempinski, Sex Please, Were Italian. Ray Cooney, Funny Money Robin Hawdon, Perfect Wedding Steven Moffat, Coupling Miles Tredinnick, La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin The Liar Molière, Tartuffe Molière, The Miser Labiche, La Cagnotte and other plays. These plays are performed as comic relief during the long, serious Noh plays, following stage shows of Umer Shareef are extremely popular. Archer Chowder The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack Scooby-Doo, IMDB list of film and television farces Farce films at Allmovie
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Curse of the Pink Panther
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Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 British comedy film and a continuation of The Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series star Peter Sellers, the film features a cameo by Roger Moore—as Clouseau himself—at the end of the film, This was David Nivens final film appearance, and he died shortly before its release. This film marked Herbert Loms 6th outing as Chief Inspector Dreyfus and he would reprise the role one last time in Son of the Pink Panther. The prized Pink Panther jewel would not return until The Pink Panther reboot in 2006 and this film featured the sixth Panther appearance of Clouseaus trusty manservant Cato. Cato and Dreyfus debuted in A Shot in the Dark, the film was a box office bomb and got negative reviews. In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen, a mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tete-a-tete with a man regarding price. The woman shoots the man, then points the gun at Clouseau, anxious never to see or hear from his nemesis again, Dreyfus sabotages the computer to select the worlds worst detective. This turns out to be Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, an incompetent officer of the New York Police Department, Sleigh, who is descended from a long line of cops, sees the case as an opportunity to prove his worth. Sleigh visits Dreyfus in the hospital to apologize, but accidentally ends up hurting Dreyfus more by falling over the hospital equipment holding Dreyfuss leg, Langlois orders several assassination attempts on Sleigh, but the detectives bumbling nature allows him to survive. Ultimately, Langlois, along with his henchmen have a showdown with Sleigh in a dark alley in Valencia, Spain. Juleta Shayne, an employee of the enigmatic Countess Chandra, comes to Sleighs rescue, Sleigh also meets Sir Charles Lytton, who is now married to Clouseaus former wife Simone, and is accompanied by his nephew George. Sir Charles was the jewel thief known as the Phantom. The Phantom would steal items of jewelery and leave behind a white glove. Eventually, Sleighs trail leads to a health spa run by Countess Chandra, there he meets famous British film star Roger Moore, who speaks with a rather odd French accent and falls about all over the place. Seeing a photograph of the Inspector, Countess Chandra tells Sleigh that Clouseau visited her several months ago and she recalls he was looking for a good plastic surgeon and she recommended one. Sleigh concludes, erroneously, that Clouseau stole the Pink Panther diamond, underwent plastic surgery, the real jewel thiefs body was found washed up on shore after he was shot to death. It is believed that Clouseau was killed for the diamond, anxious to be rid of Sleigh, Dreyfus announces that Sleigh has solved the mystery and officially closes the case, though it is clear that Dreyfus does not believe that this is what happened. In a final irony, as Dreyfus sets fire to Gino Rossis photograph — happy to be rid of Clouseau once, film star Roger Moore was, in fact, Clouseau after very extensive plastic surgery
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The Pink Panther (2006 film)
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The Pink Panther is a 2006 American comedy film and a reboot of The Pink Panther franchise, marking the tenth installment in the series. In this film, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is assigned to solve the murder of a soccer coach. The film stars Steve Martin as Clouseau and also co-stars Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, the film grossed $158.9 million worldwide. The Pink Panther was theatrically released on February 10,2006, a sequel was released on February 6,2009. Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus narrates a flashback of a match between France and China. French coach Yves Gluant enters the stadium, wearing the Pink Panther diamond ring and he kisses his girlfriend, pop star Xania, and whispers something to her. After France wins the game in sudden death, Gluant is killed by a poison dart, eager to win the Medal of Honour, Dreyfus promotes a clumsy small-town policeman and village idiot, Jacques Clouseau, to the rank of Inspector and assigns him to the Pink Panther case. Dreyfus simultaneously assembles a team of top investigators to crack the case, allowing Clouseau to serve as the public face of the investigation. Dreyfus assigns Gilbert Ponton to be Clouseaus assistant, instructing him to keep him informed of Clouseaus actions, despite his orders, Ponton quickly becomes friends with Clouseau. Bizu, a French soccer player who had an affair with Xania and therefore is the suspect in Gluants murder, is shot in the head. While at a casino to gain information, Clouseau encounters British Agent 006, Boswell foils a robbery at the casino by the Gas-Mask Bandits, using Clouseaus trench coat to hide his identity. Clouseau mistakenly receives credit for the deed and is nominated for the Medal of Honour. Clouseau follows Xania to New York City, suspecting that she more than she is telling. However, despite Pontons insistence that she is most likely a suspect because Gluant cheated on her, while in New York, Clouseau and Ponton eat hamburgers, and Clouseau discovers his love for the sandwich, which he had assumed to be nothing more than disgusting American food. Meanwhile, because the poison that killed Gluant was derived from Chinese herbs, ready to take charge of the case and win the Medal of Honour, Dreyfus has one of his officers switch Clouseaus bag with one full of weapons at the airport. Upon his return to France, the press vilifies him and Dreyfus strips him of his rank of Inspector, Dreyfus now plots to publicly arrest Dr. Pang at the Presidential Ball, where Xania will also be performing. Clouseau returns home and happens to see an article about his arrest online and he deduces from the photograph in it that the assassin will target Xania next, and he contacts Ponton. The two rush to the Élysée Palace and sneak into the Presidential Ball, while Dreyfus publicly arrests Dr. Pang for Gluants murder, Clouseau and Ponton save Xanias life by capturing her would-be assassin Yuri, the soccer teams trainer
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The Pink Panther 2
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The Pink Panther 2 is a 2009 American action comedy film directed by Harald Zwart. It is the installment in The Pink Panther film series and the sequel to the 2006 film The Pink Panther. The film was released on February 6,2009 in North America, in the film, Inspector Clouseau must team up with detectives from other countries to rout a daring burglar, The Tornado, who has returned after a decade of inactivity. Steve Martin, who reprised the role of Clouseau, originated by Peter Sellers, polished the script written by Scott Neustadter. MGM, partnering with Columbia Pictures on the sequel, hired the team of Lowell Ganz, principal photography began in Paris on August 20,2007, then moved to Boston several weeks later, where filming ended on November 2,2007. Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan appears as the criminology expert Sonia Solandres, john Cleese replaces Kevin Kline as Chief Inspector Dreyfus with Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer reprising their roles as Clouseaus partner Ponton and Clouseaus girlfriend Nicole. Beyoncé did not return for the sequel, andy García, Yuki Matsuzaki and Alfred Molina round out the cast as detectives, Italian Inspector Vicenzo Brancaleone, Japanese Inspector Kenji Mazuto and British Chief Inspector Randall Pepperidge. It was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on June 23,2009, when the master thief the Tornado steals expensive artifacts from around the world, France assembles a Dream Team of Amateur Detectives to solve the case. Inspector Clouseau is reassigned from his task as an officer by Chief Inspector Dreyfus to join the Dream Team in Japan. They go to Rome to investigate a black fence, Alonso Avellaneda. Assuming he is The Tornado, the Dream Team question him while Clouseau snoops around, Avellaneda vindicates himself by demonstrating that he lacks a bullet-wound to the right shoulder that the Tornado suffered over a decade ago. After they leave, he meets with the real Tornado and that night, Clouseau and his partner, Ponton, spy on Avellaneda, using a wire they planted on him, as he takes a date out for dinner. The mission is compromised when they find Vincenzo and Clouseaus girlfriend, Nicole, having been banned for burning down the restaurant three months earlier, Clouseau disguises himself as a dancer and switches the wire to Nicoles table. In the process, he ends up burning down the restaurant again, at the same time, The Tornado steals the Popes ring, an act which turns public opinion against the Dream Team. When Clouseaus acts of foolishness aggravate the situation, he is voted off the team, only Sonia sympathizes with him. Examining a key found in the Popes Chambers, they match the DNA of the victim with DNA of the Tornado acquired when he was shot. However, Clouseau is unconvinced and believes the Tornado was not the thief, for their victory, a celebration is thrown in the Dream Teams honor. Clouseau, who was not invited, tells Dreyfus the real thief is still at large, as Sonia leaves, Nicole asks her to take everything out of her purse
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Pink Panther (character)
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Pink Panther is a fictional animated character who appeared in the opening and closing credit sequences of every film in the Pink Panther series except for A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. In the storyline of the film, the Pink Panther was the name of a valuable pink diamond. The characters popularity spawned a franchise of theatrical shorts, merchandise, a comic book. He starred in 124 short films,10 television shows and three prime time specials, the character is closely associated with the evocative Pink Panther Theme. The Pink Phink won the 1964 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, in an early series of Pink Panther animated cartoons, Pink generally remained silent, speaking only in two theatrical shorts, Sink Pink and Pink Ice. Rich Little provided Pinks voice in the shorts, modelling it on that of David Niven. Years later, Little would overdub Nivens voice for Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther, in the fall of 1969, the Pink Panther cartoons made their way to NBC television shown Saturday mornings via The Pink Panther Show. The series featured an introduction, over the theme song. Pink Panther shorts made after 1969 were produced for both broadcast and film release, typically appearing on television first, and released to theaters by United Artists, one version of the show was called The Think Pink Panther Show. A number of sister series joined The Pink Panther on movie screens and on the airwaves, among them The Ant and the Aardvark, The Tijuana Toads, Hoot Kloot, and Misterjaw. There were also a series of animated shorts called The Inspector, with the Clouseau-inspired Inspector, deux-Deux, whom the Inspector is forever correcting. Other DePatie-Freleng series included Roland and Rattfink, The Dogfather, with a canine Corleone family, most notably, the difference between the German and the English version of the Pink Panther is a rhymed narration in the German version, commenting and describing the plot. For this show, custom intro and end sequences were cut together from existing pieces of animation and this version flopped, and would change back to the original half-hour version in 1977. In 1978, The Pink Panther moved to ABC and was rebranded The All New Pink Panther Show, the ABC version of the series featured sixteen episodes with 32 new Pink Panther cartoons, and 16 of Crazylegs Crane. The 32 entries were released theatrically by United Artists. In 1971, Gold Key Comics began publishing a Pink Panther comic book, the Pink Panther and the Inspector lasted 87 issues, ending only when Gold Key ceased operations in 1984. The spinoff series The Inspector lasted 19 issues, from 1974 to 1978, during the final years of the Panthers theatrical run, DePatie-Freleng produced a series of three primetime Pink Panther television specials for ABC. The first was 1978s A Pink Christmas and it featured Pink in New York being cold and hungry looking for a holiday dinner
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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in The Pink Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1976, Strikes Again is the entry to include the words Pink Panther in its title. Unused footage from the film was included in Trail of the Pink Panther. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector duels with his manservant Cato, the bomb destroys Clouseaus apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbenders disappearance, where he wrecks their home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis. Although Jarvis is killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had become a witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill the assassins to gain Dreyfuss favor. As a result of their orders and Clouseaus habitual clumsiness, the assassins all end up killing each other only the agents of Egypt. The Egyptian assassin shoots one of Dreyfus henchmen, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova, when the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olgas affections but learns from her Dreyfuss location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at Clouseaus apparent demise, but suffers from a toothache, Clouseau, disguised as an old German dentist, not recognized by Dreyfus, Clouseau ends up intoxicating both of them with nitrous oxide. Realising the deception when Clouseau mistakenly pulls the tooth, Dreyfus prepares to use the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfuss henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfuss plans when a medieval catapult outside the castle launches Clouseau on top of the Doomsday machine, the machine begins to malfunction and begins firing on Dreyfus and the castle itself. Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga, immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him. Because of the physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently. Julie Andrews provided the voice for the female-impersonator Ainsley Jarvis. Graham Stark, longtime friend of Sellers, once again makes an appearance in the series, albeit in a small role as the desk clerk of a small German hotel. Since his role as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, he has appeared in small roles in every Pink Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau. Omar Sharif appears, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin, tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song Come To Me
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Knight
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A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors, during the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, often, a knight was a vassal who served as a fighter for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback, since the early modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country. The modern female equivalent in the United Kingdom is Dame, furthermore, Geoffroi de Charnys Book of Chivalry expounded upon the importance of Christian faith in every area of a knights life. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes world, in the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations. Some orders of knighthood, such as the Knights Templar, have become the subject of legend, each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state or monarch to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement. This linkage is reflected in the etymology of chivalry, cavalier, the special prestige accorded to mounted warriors finds a parallel in the furusiyya in the Muslim world, and the Greek hippeus and Roman eques of classical antiquity. The word knight, from Old English cniht, is a cognate of the German word Knecht and this meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages. Middle High German had the phrase guoter kneht, which also meant knight, the Anglo-Saxon cniht had no connection to horsemanship, the word referred to any servant. A rādcniht, riding-servant, was a servant delivering messages or patrolling coastlines on horseback, a narrowing of the generic meaning servant to military follower of a king or other superior is visible by 1100. The specific military sense of a knight as a warrior in the heavy cavalry emerges only in the Hundred Years War. The verb to knight appears around 1300, and, from the same time, an Equestrian was a member of the second highest social class in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. This class is often translated as knight, the medieval knight, both Greek ἳππος and Latin equus are derived from the Proto-Indo-European word root ekwo-, horse. In the later Roman Empire, the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by the vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos. From caballus arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate with the English cavalier, Italian cavaliere, Spanish caballero, French chevalier, Portuguese cavaleiro, the Germanic languages have terms cognate with the English rider, German Ritter, and Dutch and Scandinavian ridder. These words are derived from Germanic rīdan, to ride, in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European root reidh-, in ancient Rome there was a knightly class Ordo Equestris from which European knighthood may have been derived. Some portions of the armies of Germanic peoples who occupied Europe from the 3rd century AD onward had been mounted, in the Early Medieval period any well-equipped horseman could be described as a knight, or miles in Latin
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Piano
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The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a sound and smaller dynamic range. An acoustic piano usually has a wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings. Pressing one or more keys on the keyboard causes a padded hammer to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from the strings, and the continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air, when the key is released, a damper stops the strings vibration, ending the sound. Notes can be sustained, even when the keys are released by the fingers and thumbs and this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches, going from the deepest bass range to the highest treble. The black keys are for the accidentals, which are needed to play in all twelve keys, more rarely, some pianos have additional keys. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass that graduates from one to two, the strings are sounded when keys are pressed or struck, and silenced by dampers when the hands are lifted from the keyboard. There are two types of piano, the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical solos, chamber music and art song and it is used in jazz. The upright piano, which is compact, is the most popular type, as they are a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making. During the nineteenth century, music publishers produced many works in arrangements for piano, so that music lovers could play. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, with technological advances, amplified electric pianos, electronic pianos, and digital pianos have also been developed. The electric piano became an instrument in the 1960s and 1970s genres of jazz fusion, funk music. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments, pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches
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French Resistance
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The Résistance also planned, coordinated, and executed acts of sabotage on the electrical power grid, transport facilities, and telecommunications networks. Estimated to have a strength of 100,000 in June 1944 and this burden amounted to approximately 20 million German reichsmarks per day, a sum that, in May 1940, was approximately equivalent to four hundred million French francs. Because of this overvaluation of German currency, the occupiers were able to make fair and honest requisitions and purchases while, in effect. Prices soared, leading to food shortages and malnutrition, particularly among children, the elderly. The labour shortage was worsened by the fact that a number of the French were also held as prisoners of war in Germany. Beyond these hardships and dislocations, the occupation became increasingly unbearable, onerous regulations, strict censorship, incessant propaganda and nightly curfews all played a role in establishing an atmosphere of fear and repression. The sight of French women consorting with German soldiers infuriated many French men, as reprisals for Résistance activities, the authorities established harsh forms of collective punishment. For example, the militancy of communist resistance in August 1941 led to the taking of thousands of hostages from the general population. A typical policy statement read, After each further incident, a number, reflecting the seriousness of the crime, during the occupation, an estimated 30,000 French civilian hostages were shot to intimidate others who were involved in acts of resistance. In early 1943, the Vichy authorities established a paramilitary group and they worked alongside German forces that, by the end of 1942, were stationed throughout France. The group collaborated closely with the Nazis, and was the Vichy equivalent of the Gestapo security forces in Germany and their actions were often brutal and included torture and execution of Résistance suspects. After the liberation of France in the summer of 1944, the French executed many of the estimated 25,000 to 35,000 miliciens for their collaboration. Many of those who escaped arrest fled to Germany, where they were incorporated into the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, the experience of the Occupation was a deeply psychologically disorienting one for the French as what was once familiar and safe become strange and threatening. Many Parisians could not get over the shock experienced when they first saw the huge swastika flags hanging over the Hôtel de Ville, Many résistants often spoke of some climax when they saw some intolerable act of injustice, after which they could not longer remain passive. Barthelt recalled, I recognized him only by his hat, only by his hat, I tell you and because I was waiting on the roadside to see him pass. I saw his face all right, but there was no skin on it, both his poor eyes had been closed into two purple and yellow bruises. In the beginning, resistance was limited to such as severing phone lines, vandalizing posters. Another form of resistance was underground newspapers like Musée de lHomme which circulated clandestinely, the Musée de lHomme was founded by two professors, Paul Rivet and the Russian émigré Boris Vildé in July 1940
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Room
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A room is any distinguishable space within a structure. Usually, a room is separated from other spaces or passageways by interior walls, moreover, it is separated from outdoor areas by an exterior wall, sometimes with a door. Historically the use of rooms dates at least to early Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, in early structures, the different room types could be identified to include bedrooms, kitchens, bathing rooms, reception rooms, and other specialized uses. Ancient Rome manifested very complex building forms with a variety of room types, in the United Kingdom, many houses are built to contain a box-room that is easily identifiable, being smaller than the others. The small size of these rooms limits their use, and they tend to be used as a single bedroom, small childs bedroom. Other box rooms may house a live-in domestic worker, entryway Great hall Room number The Room class room Media related to Rooms at Wikimedia Commons
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Pope
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The pope is the Bishop of Rome and, therefore, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. The current pope is Francis, who was elected on 13 March 2013, the office of the pope is the papacy. The pope is considered one of the worlds most powerful people because of his diplomatic and he is also head of state of Vatican City, a sovereign city-state entirely enclaved within the Italian capital city of Rome. The papacy is one of the most enduring institutions in the world and has had a prominent part in world history, the popes in ancient times helped in the spread of Christianity and the resolution of various doctrinal disputes. In the Middle Ages, they played a role of importance in Western Europe. Currently, in addition to the expansion of the Christian faith and doctrine, the popes are involved in ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, charitable work, Popes, who originally had no temporal powers, in some periods of history accrued wide powers similar to those of temporal rulers. In recent centuries, popes were gradually forced to give up temporal power, the word pope derives from Greek πάππας meaning father. The earliest record of the use of title was in regard to the by then deceased Patriarch of Alexandria. Some historians have argued that the notion that Peter was the first bishop of Rome, the writings of the Church Father Irenaeus who wrote around AD180 reflect a belief that Peter founded and organised the Church at Rome. Moreover, Irenaeus was not the first to write of Peters presence in the early Roman Church, Clement of Rome wrote in a letter to the Corinthians, c. 96, about the persecution of Christians in Rome as the struggles in our time and presented to the Corinthians its heroes, first, the greatest and most just columns, the good apostles Peter and Paul. St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote shortly after Clement and in his letter from the city of Smyrna to the Romans he said he would not command them as Peter and Paul did. Given this and other evidence, many agree that Peter was martyred in Rome under Nero. Protestants contend that the New Testament offers no proof that Jesus established the papacy nor even that he established Peter as the first bishop of Rome, others, using Peters own words, argue that Christ intended himself as the foundation of the church and not Peter. First-century Christian communities would have had a group of presbyter-bishops functioning as leaders of their local churches, gradually, episcopacies were established in metropolitan areas. Antioch may have developed such a structure before Rome, some writers claim that the emergence of a single bishop in Rome probably did not occur until the middle of the 2nd century. In their view, Linus, Cletus and Clement were possibly prominent presbyter-bishops, documents of the 1st century and early 2nd century indicate that the Holy See had some kind of pre-eminence and prominence in the Church as a whole, though the detail of what this meant is unclear. It seems that at first the terms episcopos and presbyter were used interchangeably, the consensus among scholars has been that, at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries, local congregations were led by bishops and presbyters whose offices were overlapping or indistinguishable
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Bomb
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A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Bombs have been in use since the 11th century in Song Dynasty China, the term bomb is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as a bomb. The military use of the bomb, or more specifically aerial bomb action, typically refers to airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons most commonly used by air forces. Other military explosive weapons not classified as bombs include grenades, shells, depth charges, warheads when in missiles, in unconventional warfare, other names can refer to a range of offensive weaponry. For instance, in recent Middle Eastern conflicts, bombs called improvised explosive devices have been employed by insurgent fighters to great effectiveness, the word comes from the Latin bombus, which in turn comes from the Greek βόμβος, an onomatopoetic term meaning booming, buzzing. Explosive bombs were used in China in 1221, by a Jin dynasty army against a Song Dynasty city, Bombs built using bamboo tubes appear in the 11th century. Bombs made of cast iron shells packed with explosive gunpowder date to 13th century China, the term was coined for this bomb during a Jin dynasty naval battle of 1231 against the Mongols. When hit, even iron armour was pierced through. The Ming Dynasty text Huolongjing describes the use of gunpowder bombs. During the Mongol invasions of Japan, the Mongols used the explosive thunder-crash bombs against the Japanese, archaeological evidence of the thunder-crash bombs has been discovered in an underwater shipwreck off the shore of Japan by the Kyushu Okinawa Society for Underwater Archaeology. X-rays by Japanese scientists of the excavated shells confirmed that they contained gunpowder, explosive shock waves can cause situations such as body displacement, dismemberment, internal bleeding and ruptured eardrums. Shock waves produced by explosive events have two components, the positive and negative wave. The positive wave shoves outward from the point of detonation, followed by the vacuum space sucking back towards the point of origin as the shock bubble collapses. The greatest defense against shock injuries is distance from the source of shock, as a point of reference, the overpressure at the Oklahoma City bombing was estimated in the range of 28 MPa. A thermal wave is created by the release of heat caused by an explosion. Military bomb tests have documented temperatures of up to 2,480 °C, while capable of inflicting severe to catastrophic burns and causing secondary fires, thermal wave effects are considered very limited in range compared to shock and fragmentation. This would be fatal to humans, as tests have proven. Fragmentation is produced by the acceleration of shattered pieces of bomb casing, the use of fragmentation in bombs dates to the 14th century, and appears in the Ming Dynasty text Huolongjing
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Bumps race
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A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file, each crew attempting to catch and bump the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind. The form is used in intercollegiate competitions at the University of Cambridge, since 1827. Bumps racing in fours is also the format of inter-house rowing at Eton College and it is particularly suitable where the stretch of water available is long but narrow, precluding side-by-side racing. Bumps racing gives a feel of immediate competition than a head race. Few rowers worldwide use rivers as narrow as the Cam or the Isis, Bumps races are typically raced in a series over several days. The starting order of each race is based on the previous days results. Each day the line up bow-to-stern, usually along the bank of the river. The starting positions are marked by a rope or chain attached to the bank. Boats wait along the bank, and may be poled out just in time for the start, to avoid drifting. At the start signal the cox lets go of the rope, a bump is made when any form of contact is made with the boat in front, however, outright collisions are neither necessary nor encouraged. Alternatively, if possible, an overtaking-bump occurs when the stern of the boat completely passes the bow of the boat in front. This is relatively rare simply because it is easier to contact with a rival boat than it is to overtake it. A bump of this kind usually only occurs when a boat crashes, generally, and at Oxford during Eights Week, once a bump has occurred both crews pull over to the river bank and take no further part in that race. At Oxford during Torpids a bumping crew pulls over but the crew must continue racing over the entire course. This can be dangerous and the chance of boats getting damaged is high. To avoid this, the cox of the boat being bumped can concede as soon as slight physical contact occurs or even once it is inevitable, nonetheless, collisions involving several boats are common. Any crew that has been bumped starts the race behind the boat or boats that caught it. A boat which reaches the line without either bumping or being bumped is said to have rowed over
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Dubbing (filmmaking)
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The process usually takes place on a dub stage. After sound editors edit and prepare all necessary tracks, the mixer or mixers proceed to balance all of the elements. In the past, dubbing was practiced primarily in musicals when the actor had a singing voice. Today, dubbing enables the screening of material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the performers in the original production. Films, videos, and sometimes video games are dubbed into the local language of a foreign market. In foreign distribution, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television films, television series, cartoons, the insertion of voice actor performances for animation, such as computer-generated imagery or animated cartoons, is often referred to as ADR although it generally does not replace existing dialogue. In conventional film production, a sound mixer records dialogue during filming. During post-production, a sound editor, or ADR supervisor, reviews all of the dialogue in the film. ADR is recorded during an ADR session, which place in a specialized sound studio. The actor, usually the original actor from the set, views the scene with the original sound, over the course of multiple takes, the actor performs the lines while watching the scene, the most suitable take becomes the final version. The ADR process does not always take place in a post-production studio, the process may be recorded on location, with mobile equipment. Sometimes, a different actor than the actor on set is used during ADR. One famous example is the Star Wars character Darth Vader portrayed by David Prowse, in post-production and it provides a more precise guide for the actors, directors, and technicians, and can be used to complement the traditional ADR method. The rythmo band is projected in the studio and scrolls in perfect synchronization with the picture, Studio time is used more efficiently, since with the aid of scrolling text, picture, and audio cues, actors can read more lines per hour than with ADR alone. With ADR, actors can average 10–12 lines per hour, while rythmo band can facilitate the reading of 35-50 lines per hour, However, the preparation of a rythmo band is a time-consuming process involving a series of specialists organized in a production line. VideoDubber, a startup company from Israel, developed an automated dubbing SaaS platform that enables automated dubbing of video content to over 40 languages using digitized voices. It was the first to dub a full TV channel using this technology for a Spanish cable provider in July 2015, Media Movers, Inc. a dubbing company, has developed a piece of proprietary software that can automatically sync ADR/dubbed tracks with pre-defined algorithms. TM Systems received Emmy awards in 2002 and 2007 for their dubbing and subtitling software, Dubbing is often used to localize a foreign movie
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Hercule Poirot
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Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time, Marie Belloc Lowndes Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans Monsieur Poiret, a more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle. In An Autobiography, Christie states, I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, for his part, Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poes C. Auguste Dupin and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, unlike the models mentioned above, Christies Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920. Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles and exited in Curtain, following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of The New York Times. By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot insufferable, and by 1960 she felt that he was a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, yet the public loved him and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked. Captain Arthur Hastingss first description of Poirot, He was hardly more than five feet four inches and his head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military, even if everything on his face was covered, the tips of moustache and the pink-tipped nose would be visible. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible, I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, in the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. Poirot has green eyes that are described as shining like a cats when he is struck by a clever idea, and dark hair. In Curtain, he admits to Hastings that he wears a wig, however, in many of his screen incarnations, he is bald or balding. Frequent mention is made of his patent leather shoes, damage to which is frequently a source of misery for him, Poirots appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, later falls hopelessly out of fashion. Among Poirots most significant personal attributes is the sensitivity of his stomach, mon estomac, thought Hercule Poirot, and closed his eyes determinedly. He suffers from sea sickness, and in Death in the Clouds he states that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder. Later in his life, we are told, Always a man who had taken his stomach seriously, eating was not only a physical pleasure, it was also an intellectual research. Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a pocket watch almost to the end of his career
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Agatha Christie
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot. She also wrote the worlds longest-running play, a mystery, The Mousetrap. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature, Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. She served in a hospital during the First World War before marrying and starting a family in London and she was initially an unsuccessful writer, but The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 featuring Hercule Poirot. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time and her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the worlds most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeares works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author – having been translated into at least 103 languages. And Then There Were None is Christies best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the worlds best-selling mystery ever, in 1955 Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of Americas highest honour, the Grand Master Award. Later the same year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play, in 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers Association. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890, into a wealthy upper middle-class family in Ashfield, Torquay, Devon. Her mother, Clara Boehmer, was an Englishwoman who was born in Belfast in 1854 to Captain Frederick Boehmer and Mary Ann West, Clara Boehmer had four brothers, one of whom died young. Captain Boehmer was killed in an accident while stationed on Jersey in April 1863. Under financial strain, she sent Clara to live with her aunt Margaret Miller, the couple lived in Prinsted, West Sussex. Clara stayed with Margaret, and there she met her husband, an American stockbroker named Frederick Alvah Miller. Christies father Frederick was a member of the American upper class and he was considered personable and friendly by those who knew him. He soon developed a relationship with Clara, and they were married in April 1878. Clara soon purchased a villa in Torquay named Ashfield in which to raise her family, Christie described her childhood as very happy. She was surrounded by a series of strong and independent women from an early age
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David Niven
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James David Graham Niven was an English actor and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables. Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown Preparatory School and Stowe before gaining a place at the Royal Military College, after Sandhurst, he joined the British Army and was gazetted a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry. Having developed an interest in acting, he left the Highland Light Infantry, travelled to Hollywood and he first appeared as an extra in the British film There Goes the Bride. From there, he hired an agent and had small parts in films from 1933 to 1935. This brought him to attention within the film industry and he was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Niven returned to Britain and rejoined the army, Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation, and was voted the second-most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars. He appeared in A Matter of Life and Death, The Bishops Wife, Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for television. He also began writing books, with commercial success. In 1982 he appeared in Blake Edwards final Pink Panther films Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther, James David Graham Niven was born in Belgrave Mansions, London, to William Edward Graham Niven and his wife, Henrietta Julia Niven. He was named David for his birth on St. Davids Day, Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, in the Scottish county of Angus in 1909, but his birth certificate shows this was not the case. Henrietta was of French and British ancestry and she was born in Wales, the daughter of army officer William Degacher by his marriage to Julia Caroline Smith, the daughter of Lieutenant General James Webber Smith. Nivens grandfather William Degacher was killed in the Battle of Isandlwana, born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mothers maiden name of Degacher in 1874. William Niven, Davids father, was of Scottish descent, his grandfather, David Graham Niven, was from St. Martins. William served in the Berkshire Yeomanry in the First World War and was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign on 21 August 1915 and he was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey, in the Special Memorial Section in Plot F.10. Nivens mother remarried, to Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, in London in 1917, David Niven had three older siblings, Margaret Joyce Henry Degacher Grizel Rosemary Graham. English private schools at the time of Nivens boyhood were noted for their strict, Niven suffered many instances of corporal punishment owing to his inclination for pranks, which finally led to his expulsion from Heatherdown Preparatory School at the age of 10½. This ended his chances for Eton College, a significant blow to his family, thoughtful and kind, he addressed the boys by their first names, allowed them bicycles, and encouraged and nurtured their personal interests
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Capucine
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Capucine was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther and Whats New Pussycat. She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990, the future Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre on 6 January 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. She often confused the issue of her birth by claiming that she was born in 1931 or 1933 and she attended school in Saumur, France, and received a B. A. in foreign languages. In 1945, at age 17, while riding in a carriage in Paris, adopting the name Capucine, she became a fashion model, working for fashion houses Givenchy and Christian Dior. Capucine met Audrey Hepburn while modeling for Givenchy in Paris, the two would remain close friends for the rest of Capucines life. In 1949, Capucine made her debut in the French film Rendez-vous de juillet. In 1957, film producer Charles K. Feldman spotted Capucine while she was modeling in New York City, Feldman brought her to Hollywood to learn English and study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1958, much of 1963s hit film The Pink Panther was shot in Europe. A crime comedy that led to a number of sequels, the film starred David Niven, the risqué comedy Whats New Pussycat. Which co-starred Sellers and Peter OToole, was filmed entirely in France and she continued making films in Europe until her death. She met Pierre Trabaud on the set of Rendez-vous and they married the next year, the marriage lasted only eight months and Capucine never married again. She had an affair with Charles K. Feldman, who produced her films Whats New Pussycat, the 7th Dawn and The Honey Pot. Capucine met actor William Holden in the early 1960s and they starred in the films The Lion and The 7th Dawn. Holden was married to Brenda Marshall, but the two began a two-year affair, after the affair ended, she and Holden remained friends until Holdens death in 1981. Mononymous persons Capucine at the Internet Movie Database Capucine at AllMovie Brief biography Capucine
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A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
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A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in The Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté, Gambrelli would return in Son of the Pink Panther, this time played by Claudia Cardinale, who played Princess Dala in The Pink Panther. Graham Stark reprised his Hercule Lajoy role in Trail of the Pink Panther, the film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz adapted from the French play LIdiote by Marcel Achard. The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon to investigate the murder of his chauffeur, Miguel Ostos. The chauffeur was having an affair with one of the maids, Maria Gambrelli, Miguel was shot and killed in her bedroom and Maria was found with the smoking gun in her hand, but claims no knowledge of how it got there as she maintains she was knocked unconscious. All evidence points to Maria as the killer, but Clouseau is convinced of her innocence because he has developed an attraction to her. Realizing Clouseau has been assigned to a high-profile case, Commissioner Dreyfus has him removed. He is awakened in the hours of the morning by an apparent attempt on his life by a Chinese assassin. A series of murders of the Ballon staff follows. Each time the points to Maria, who is continually arrested. As Clouseau continues to bungle the case, Commissioner Dreyfus becomes increasingly unhinged and he stalks Clouseau in order to assassinate him, but accidentally kills a series of innocent bystanders instead and adds further notoriety to the case. Only Maria is innocent of any crime, as a massive row breaks out between employers and staff, the lights are cut, and the guilty take the opportunity to pile into Clouseaus car and escape. They are all killed when the car is destroyed by a bomb that had been planted by Commissioner Dreyfus, having witnessed the explosion, and realizing that he has failed again to kill Clouseau, Dreyfus is reduced to an animalistic fury and is taken away. Clouseau and Maria celebrate the clearing of her name with a long, Sellers was attached to star in the adaptation of Harry Kurnitzs Broadway hit before the release and success of The Pink Panther, but was not pleased with the script by Alec Coppel and Norman Krasna. Walter Mirisch approached Blake Edwards and asked him to take over as director of A Shot in the Dark from Anatole Litvak, the relationship between Edwards and Sellers deteriorated to such a point that at the conclusion of the film they vowed never to work together again. They eventually reconciled to collaborate successfully four years later on The Party, as with most of the other Clouseau films, A Shot in the Dark featured an animated opening titles sequence produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises featuring an animated version of Inspector Clouseau. This film and Inspector Clouseau are the only Clouseau films not to feature the Pink Panther character in the opening titles, henry Mancinis theme for this film serves as opening theme and incidental music in The Inspector cartoon shorts made by DePatie-Freleng from 1965 to 1969. Fran Jeffries sang the song Shadows of Paris and she also sang the song called Meglio Stasera in the film The Pink Panther
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Herbert Lom
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Herbert Lom was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career. Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English and he is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers and The Pink Panther film series. Lom was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru in Prague to Karl Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, and his spouse, the former Olga Gottlieb, Lom himself claimed that his family had been ennobled and the family title dated from 1601. Loms film debut was in the Czech film Žena pod křížem followed by the Boží mlýny and his early film appearances were mainly supporting roles, with the occasional top billing. At this time he changed his impractically long surname - to Lom. Because of German hostilities and the possibility of an invasion of Czechoslovakia and he made numerous appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, usually in villainous roles, although he later appeared in comedies as well. He secured a seven-picture Hollywood contract after World War II but was unable to obtain an American visa for political reasons, in a rare starring role, Lom played twin trapeze artists in Dual Alibi. Lom starred as the King of Siam in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammersteins musical, The King, opening at the Drury Lane Theatre on 8 October 1953, it ran for 926 performances. Lom can be heard on the cast recording, a few years later he appeared opposite Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in The Ladykillers, and with Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below. He went on to more success during the 1960s with a wide range of parts. Subsequent films in this period included El Cid, Mysterious Island, playing Captain Nemo, again in the leading role, the phantoms mask in this version was full-face, which made casting an actor with a reputation for his vocal talents a sensible decision. It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture and this version of the famous Gaston Leroux story dragged. The Phantom wasnt given enough to do, but at least I wasnt the villain, during this period Lom starred in his only regular TV series, the British drama The Human Jungle as a Harley Street psychiatrist, over two seasons. Another low-budget horror film starring Lom was the witchhunting film Mark of the Devil, cinemas reportedly handed out sick bags to patrons at screenings of the film. He appeared in horror films made in both the US and UK, including Asylum, And Now the Screaming Starts. Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Dead Zone and he also appeared in two different screen versions of the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None. In the 1975 version he played Dr. Armstrong, and later appeared in the 1989 version as General Romensky, Lom wrote two historical novels, one on the playwright Christopher Marlowe and another on the French Revolution
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The Return of the Pink Panther
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The Return of the Pink Panther in DeLuxe Color and Panavision is the fourth film in The Pink Panther series, released in 1975. The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau, returning to the part for the first time since A Shot in the Dark, the film was a commercial hit and revived a previously dormant series. Herbert Lom reprises his role as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus from A Shot in the Dark, the character of Sir Charles Lytton, the notorious Phantom, is now played by Christopher Plummer rather than David Niven, who was unavailable. The Pink Panther diamond once again plays a role in the plot. In the fictional country of Lugash, a mysterious thief seizes the Pink Panther diamond, with its national treasure once again missing, the Shah of Lugash requests the assistance of Inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté, as Clouseau had recovered the diamond the last time it was stolen. Clouseau has been demoted to beat cop by his boss, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus, who despises him to the point of obsession. Clouseau joyously receives the news after fending off an attack from his servant Cato, who had been ordered to keep the Inspector on his toes. After several catastrophic failures to stake out Lytton Manor in Nice, meanwhile, Sir Charles, reading about the theft, realizes he has been framed. Escaping to his suite, Lytton finds secret police Colonel Sharki waiting for him, who implies the Fat Mans understanding is correct, pretending to cooperate, Sir Charles is unable to hide his reaction when he recognizes his own wife in disguise on the museums security footage. He avoids another plot by the Fat Man and his duplicitous underling Pepi and escapes from Lugash, secretly pursued by Sharki, who believes Sir Charles will lead him to the diamond. Still in Gstaad, Clouseau, who unwittingly has been on the trail of the real thief all along, is ordered by Dreyfus over the telephone to arrest Lady Lytton. When Clouseau calls back to clarify the order, however, he is told that Dreyfus has been on vacation, Sir Charles confronts Lady Claudine, who admits she did it to spark excitement in their sedate existences, but not before the Colonel gets there first. For once again recovering the Pink Panther, Clouseau is promoted to Chief Inspector, at a Japanese restaurant in the epilogue, Cato unexpectedly attacks Clouseau again and triggers a massive brawl, naturally destroying the premises. In a mid-credits scene, Dreyfus is committed to an asylum for his actions. The animated Pink Panther appears and films his antics, and concludes the credits with a smoke ring and you can rest assured that theres trouble, because Inspector Clouseau is on the case. Then British producer Lew Grade agreed to two films for Blake Edwards as part of a deal to get Edwards wife, Julie Andrews. Edwards wanted to make a movie, however, in order to help restore his tainted reputation in Hollywood. Grade said he suggested making a new Pink Panther film and Edwards agreed
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Richard Williams (animator)
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He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films. Williams was born in Toronto, the son of Kathleen and Kenneth D. C. Williams, Williams emigrated to Ibiza in 1953 and then to London in 1955. In 1958 he produced the work that boosted his career and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Animated Film and he was director of animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, winning two more Oscars for his work. He has written an acclaimed animation how-to book, The Animators Survival Kit, following this, he completed a 9-minute short film titled Circus Drawings. The silent film, with accompaniment, premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy in September 2010. As a largely non-verbal feature meant for an audience, The Thief was dismissed at first as unmarketable. in 1988. Completion Bond then had animator Fred Calvert supervise the process in Korea. New scenes were animated to include several musical interludes. Calverts version was released internationally in 1993 as The Princess and the Cobbler, miramax then acquired rights to the project and extensively rewrote and re-edited the film to include continuous dialogue, as well as many cuts to lengthy sequences. Miramaxs product was released in 1995 under the title Arabian Knight, for a long time, Williams preferred not to discuss the film in detail. On December 10,2013, the cut, a workprint of the film subtitled A Moment in Time, was screened in Los Angeles. He is one of a number of people in the entertainment industry to have come from Northern Secondary School in Toronto. Currently, Williams lives in Bristol with his wife, Imogen Sutton. Williams also has four children two of his three previous marriages, including animator Alexander Williams and painter Holly Williams-Brock
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Christopher Plummer
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his debut in Stage Struck, Plummer went on to a successful film career. Plummer has ventured into television projects, including the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Plummer has won awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award. With his win at age 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award and his fathers uncle was patent lawyer and agent F. B. Plummers parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec and he is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes. He had studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age and he began acting while he was living on Pine Avenue in Montreal and attending Montreal High. He attended McGill, at time he also took up acting. Whittaker, who was also stage director of the Montreal Repertory Theatre, cast Plummer, aged 18. Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story and his next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances from September to October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and film legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, the play toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Powers understudy. Later that same year, he appeared in his first Broadway hit, Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the character in Cyrano. For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simons adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor. In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones Moor, and the role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination and he appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinters No Mans Land and had great success in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award and he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind
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Catherine Schell
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Catherine Schell is a Hungarian-born actress best known for her work in British television, in particular her portrayal of Maya in the science-fiction series Space,1999. Schell came to prominence in various British film and television productions of the 1960s and 1970s, although she acted under the name Catherine von Schell and Katherina von Schell early in her career, she is better known by the name Catherine Schell. She is not related to the Austrian-Swiss actor siblings Maximilian and Maria Schell, Schells father, Baron Paul Schell von Bauschlott, was a Hungarian diplomat, her mother was Countess Katharina Maria Etelka Georgina Elisabeth Teleki de Szék. At the start of the Second World War, her parents estates were confiscated by the Nazis, fleeing Hungary in advance of the Russians and Communism, the family lived in poverty until 1948, finding asylum in Austria, first in Vienna, then in Salzburg. In 1950, the family emigrated to the United States, where Schells father acquired American citizenship, Schell entered a convent school in the New York City borough of Staten Island. In 1957, her father joined Radio Free Europe and the moved to Munich, Germany. Under the name Katherina von Schell, she made her debut in 1964 as the title character in the little-known German-language film Lana. In 1969, she appeared as Bond girl Nancy in the George Lazenby James Bond film On Her Majestys Secret Service, in 1972, she appeared for the first time under the name Catherine Schell in Madame Sin, an American television film starring Bette Davis. In 1975, she appeared opposite Peter Sellers in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther as Lady Claudine Lytton and it is frequently claimed that her tendency to break into uncontrollable laughter at Sellers antics as Inspector Clouseau spoiled many takes. The final print of the film repeatedly shows Schell attempting to stifle laughter at Sellers behaviour, Schells first TV credit was Till Eulenspiegel, a West German comedy in which she played Nele and was billed as Katherina von Schell. Schell spent much of her career in British television, appearing in more than 47 series spanning a period of nearly 30 years. She played regular roles in such as The Adventurer, Looking For Clancy, One by One, Mog and Wish Me Luck, in addition to many guest appearances. The Troubleshooters, Arthur of the Britons, Return of the Saint, The Sweeney, The Onedin Line, The Gentle Touch, Lovejoy, Bergerac, The Bill, Howards Way and The Search for the Nile. Schell appeared in another British science-fiction series, as Countess Scarlioni in the Doctor Who serial City of Death, Schells brother, Paul Rudolf, now known as Paul von Schell, has acted in a number of German-language productions. A younger brother, Peter, died young, through a German great-grandfather, Schell is related to Louis XIV of France, Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. While filming Amsterdam Affair in 1968, Schell met and married her first husband, British actor William Marlowe, the marriage ended in divorce in 1977. Schell married director Bill Hays in 1982, in 1984, they worked together for the first time as husband and wife on a TV production of Ivan Turgenevs play A Month in the Country. She reportedly sold the inn after the death of her husband in 2006
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Trail of the Pink Panther
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Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers for the sixth and final time. It was the film in The Pink Panther series, the first film in the series following Sellers death. His performance consists only of deleted scenes from previous films, when the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia, Clouseau first goes to London to interrogate Sir Charles Lytton. He then is led to an introduction to the Scotland Yard detectives at Heathrow. Meanwhile, Dreyfus learns from Scotland Yard that Libyan terrorists have marked Clouseau for assassination, heretofore at the hotel, Clouseau has a miscommunication with the hotel clerk and even finds gets knocked out a window several times, trying to get his message from Dreyfus. Clouseaus plane disappears en route to Lugash, and Marie Jouvet, among the people she interviews are Dreyfus, Hercule Lajoy, Cato Fong, and former jewel thief Sir Charles Litton who is married to Clouseaus ex-wife Lady Simone. The film ends with Marie hoping that Clouseau might be alive somewhere as she states, Did Inspector Clouseau really perish in the sea, as reported. Or for reasons as yet unknown, is he out there somewhere, plotting his next move, I am reluctant to believe that misfortune has really struck down such a great man. Clouseau is seen glancing over a cliff, when a seagull flies over. The words Swine seagull. are heard in the distinctive over French accent of Clouseau, Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouveat David Niven as Sir Charles Litton Herbert Lom as Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong Capucine as Lady Simone Litton Robert Loggia as Bruno Langois André Maranne as Sgt, David Niven appears in the film, reprising a role he first played in the original The Pink Panther of 1963. Niven was in the stages of ALS, and his voice subsequently proved too weak to loop his own dialogue during post-production. He was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little during post-production, returning series regulars include Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Graham Stark as Hercule LaJoy, Burt Kwouk as Clouseaus faithful man servant Cato and André Maranne as Sgt. Also featured Joanna Lumley as a reporter on the trail of the missing Clouseau. Trail featured animated opening and closing credits, animated by Marvel Productions and written, director Blake Edwards dedicated the film to Sellers, the one and only Inspector Clouseau. Despite this, however, there was a reason behind Fredericks suing of Edwards. The reason the question of outtakes being used had come up in Sellers lifetime was that Edwards had shot a three-hour version of Strikes Again
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
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Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. Released in 1978, it is the last entry released during the lifetime of Peter Sellers and it is also the last entry to be distributed solely by United Artists, which was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981. The opening credits are animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and this is Graham Starks first stint as Professor Auguste Balls. He portrays him once more in Son of the Pink Panther, to demonstrate otherwise, Douviers aide Guy Algo suggests a show of force with the murder of the famous Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing Clouseau fails, in Russos clothes and insisting on his true identity, Clouseau is taken to the asylum himself but escapes into Dreyfus room, who faints from the shock of seeing Clouseau alive. Clouseau manages to disguise himself as Dreyfus and is home by François. Meanwhile, Dreyfus is assigned to read an elegy at Clouseaus funeral by the chiefs wife. During his recital, Dreyfus is barely able to control his incredulity and laughter at the praise of Clouseau, at the cemetery, Clouseau attends the burial disguised as a priest and then surreptitiously reveals himself to Dreyfus, who recognizes him, faints, and falls into the grave. Meanwhile, due to his unfaithfulness, Douviers wife threatens him with divorce, needing her respectability, Douvier tells his secretary and paramour Simone LeGree that their relationship is over, to which Simone reacts angrily. At Simones flat, Clouseau reveals his identity, prompting her to reveal that Douvier ordered Clouseaus assassination, attacked by more hit men, Clouseau and Simone escape into a nearby flat, which coincidentally happens to be Dreyfus. Dreyfus overhears Simone telling Clouseau of Douviers plan to meet the New York Mafia godfather Julio Scallini in Hong Kong, after evading their pursuers, Clouseau, Cato, and Simone follow Douvier to Hong Kong in disguise, unaware that the now suspicious Dreyfus has followed them. A car chase begins, ending in a crash at the Hong Kong docks, inside, Dreyfus mistakenly sets the fireworks off and the resulting explosions sow chaos among all the participants, which eventually leads to the arrests of Douvier and Scallini. Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of France and it was the first time since Inspector Clouseau in 1968 that DePatie-Freleng animated the opening titles of a Pink Panther film. They later went on to produce the television series The All-New Pink Panther Show. Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther would be animated by the retitled Marvel Productions, romance of the Pink Panther was a Pink Panther film that Sellers was working on—and willing to make without Edwards—before Sellers fatal heart attack. UA considered recasting the role before convincing Blake Edwards to return to the series, composed by Henry Mancini in his fifth Pink Panther, the theme music and much of the soundtrack draw heavily from the disco trends of the late 1970s. The theme itself being reworked to include a more dancy bassline, electric piano and guitar solo
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Joanna Lumley
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Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE FRGS is an English actress, voice-over artist, former model, author and activist. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards, Lumleys other television credits include The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, Sensitive Skin, and Jam & Jerusalem. Lumley is an advocate and human rights activist for Survival International and she supports charities and animal welfare groups such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians International Voice for Animals. She is also patron of the Farm Animal Sanctuary, since 2012, Lumley has been planning, in collaboration with the designer Thomas Heatherwick, a controversial pedestrian Garden Bridge across the Thames in London. Lumley was brought up in Kent, England, where she attended Mickledene School in Rolvenden as a boarder, the family spent time in Hong Kong and Malaya. Lumley spent three years as a model, notably for Brian Duffy, by whom she was photographed with her son. She also worked as a model for Jean Muir. Over forty years later, she participated in another photoshoot – again with her son – for Duffy as part of a retrospective of the photographers work, Lumley appeared in an early episode of the Bruce Forsyth Show in 1966. She appeared in a British television advertisement for Nimble bread first screened in 1969, Lumley did not receive any formal training at drama school. Lumley went on to have a brief but memorable role as Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street, in 1973, she made another big screen appearance as Jessica Van Helsing in The Satanic Rites of Dracula, the last Hammer Dracula film to star Christopher Lee. She has worked with Tim Burton on two projects, in James and the Giant Peach and Corpse Bride. She has also appeared alongside Hugh Laurie in the British romantic comedy Maybe Baby and she has appeared twice as Mrs. Dolly Bantry in Agatha Christies Marple, in the episodes, The Body in the Library & The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side. In 2010, she appeared in a 4-episode guest arc on the BBC drama, in 2013, she appeared in the Martin Scorsese crime drama, The Wolf of Wall Street. Throughout her career, she has specialised in playing upper class parts, Lumleys first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers, a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. Although critical reaction to the series was lukewarm, the casting of Lumley was seen as inspired and following the tradition of Avengers actresses Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, in 1979 she appeared in another series which acquired a cult following, Sapphire & Steel, with David McCallum. Conceived as ITVs answer to Doctor Who, Lumley played an elemental being who, with her collaborator, Steel. Absolutely Fabulous, The Movie was released in 2016, in 1994 and 1995 Lumley starred alongside Nadine Garner and John Bowe in the British television show Class Act, playing the part of Kate Swift an upper class lady who had fallen on hard times. In 1995, she provided the voice of Annie the rag doll in the animated series The Forgotten Toys, in 1999, she also provided the voice for Sims the chicken in the BAFTA award winning animated series The Foxbusters
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Richard Mulligan
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He was the younger brother of film director Robert Mulligan. Mulligan was born on November 13,1932, in New York City, after attending Columbia University, Mulligan began working in theater, making his debut as a stage manager and performer on Broadway in All the Way Home in 1960. Additional theatre credits included A Thousand Clowns, Never Too Late, Hogans Goat, Mulligan made a brief, uncredited appearance in the 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger, which was directed by his elder brother. He starred with Mariette Hartley in the 1966-67 season comedy series The Hero, in which he played TV star Sam Garret, the Hero lasted only 16 episodes. Another notable TV appearance was on the I Dream of Jeannie episode Around the World in 80 Blinks, mulligans most notable film role was as General Custer in Little Big Man, whom he portrayed as a borderline psychotic. He also appeared in the disaster spoof, The Big Bus. As for his work, he starred in the adaptation of Edgar Allan Poes The Oblong Box heard on The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Empty Nest ran for seven seasons, and Mulligan won a Best Actor Emmy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award for his performance and he also played Secretary of State William Seward in Lincoln, a TV movie based on Gore Vidals novel. Mulligan returned to perform on Broadway and in films, in which he played supporting roles. A notable exception was the black comedy S. O. B. in which he played lead character Felix Farmer, the film again featured Larry Hagman. Mulligan was cast as Reggie Potter in the television series Reggie, lasting for only six episodes, it is a loose adaptation of the BBC series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. In the 1984 film Teachers, he played a high school history teacher. The next year, he appeared in episode of the series. He appeared in Disneys 1988 film, Oliver & Company, as the voice of the oafish Great Dane named Einstein and his final performance was a voice over on Hey Arnold. In 2000 as the voice of Jimmy Kafka, the long mentioned and he was first married to Patricia Jones from 1955 to 1960, with whom he had a son, James. That was followed by marriages to Joan Hackett from January 3,1966 to June 1973 and his last marriage was to adult film actress Rachel Ryan on April 27,1992, which lasted two years. After making his last appearance in an episode of Hey Arnold, on September 26,2000, Mulligan died of colorectal cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California. At his own request, his remains were cremated and there was no funeral service, Mulligan was survived by his son James Mulligan from his first marriage, and two brothers, Robert and James
