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Blake Edwards 1922-2010

  • 16-12-2010 7:25pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭


    I just saw his obituary in the New York Times: Blake was the director and writer behind the Pink Panther films, "10", Days of Wine and Roses, Victor/Victoria, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the TV series Peter Gunn. I need to dig up some of those, as well as The Party with Peter Sellers:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    A bit of a jobbing hack but a certainly a talented one with an artists eye for design and colour. As is so often the case with directors esp ones that have a comedy-heavy CV his later work was pretty poor. Its hard to make a case for anything he made after Victor/Victoria (1982).

    The Great Race is possibly his 3 finest hours, its the perfect Christmas holiday in front of the fire movie. A total over the top big budget indulgence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭Phony Scott


    'A Shot in the Dark' is my second favourite comedy of all time (first being 'The Life of Brian' which shows you how high up it is). I'm not a fan of his other work. 'The Party' is very dated, unless you find Peter Sellers saying "Birdy num num" funny. RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,006 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP :(

    Wasnt he married to Julie Andrews?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Yep made several films with her.


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