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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: John and Peter Sellers Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:38:08 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <52472d88378d1f6eda5ee05af4fd4950@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1389323"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="jHSG7cE2S9tCiwNMo3DGhaiamUtTAcQZosSD3d15Pig"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$BHIX9GKyESqOthkPj/9kKuqoTLAMHNggDlIiKJJmyrCWwpTPcTg42 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 6048208f8e4825d9cf9eefdf20568224fc305389 Bytes: 2336 Lines: 27 According to Fred Seaman, as his and John's visit to Bermuda was nearing its end, the news of Peter Sellers' death sent John into a funk. Lennon had idolized Sellers since his teens. Seaman says that Lennon mused that, if Sellers had not made it in show business, he'd have died "in the nutty bin." "if you're nobody and you're crazy as he is," Lennon said, "they lock you up. But if you're famous, you're considered merely eccentric." "At least," Lennon continued, "he went out with a hit," in reference to Sellers' leading role in the film Being There, which was based on Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novel. Was Sellers crazy? In the footage I've seen in which Sellers is not playing a role, he seems merely shy. In the 1960s, Roman Polanski had interacted with Sellers and found him lonely. Polanski and Sharon Tate had embraced Sellers as a friend, and introduced him to Mia Farrow. Sellers and Farrow became close in a platonic way, bonding over their mutual love of late 1960s culture, including mysticism and astrology. Farrow was also lonely at the time, having lost her marriage to Frank Sinatra, who had been outraged by her nudity in the Polanski-directed Rosemary's Baby. Sellers seems to have been one of the few men in Farrow's life who was content to be her friend -- i.e., he didn't put the moves on her. Anyway, I sense that, in deeming Sellers crazy, Lennon was confusing the roles Sellers played with the actual person.