# Question for Eve...re: Peter Sellers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 2, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371 "2005-08-02T22:49:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/61 "2005-08-04T08:16:30Z")
I don’t get it.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/62 "2005-08-04T12:00:30Z")
I am neither Adam nor Eve.
Just thought I should mention it.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/63 "2005-08-04T12:30:39Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> I am neither Adam nor Eve.
Are you at least on a raft?
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### Author:  [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/64 "2005-08-04T12:46:24Z")
I am not an **Eve**.
Nor an **Eve’s** son am I.
But I’ll pluck those figs until the day I die.
I am a Turtle!
Can I have my medication now?
-Tcat
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/65 "2005-08-04T15:00:16Z")
**Walloon** , my guess is that **Larry Mudd** misread the question, “Did any other actor ever work with Kubrick more than once?” as “Did any other actor ever work with _Sellers_ more than once?” And then he gave three films in which Sellers played multiple roles, IOW Sellers working with Sellers.
We seem to be well past Eve into Darkest Night.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/66 "2005-08-04T15:45:35Z")
I didn’t really mean the question to be taken quite so literally. I’ve just heard that Stanley Kubrick was difficult for actors to work for (not personally unpleasant, just very, very exacting in what he wanted, and would shoot a scene as many times as it took to get it right). When someone mentioned directors who worked with Sellers more than once, I thought it was odd that one of them was known to not do much repeat work with actors.
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### Author:  [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/67 "2005-08-04T15:45:57Z")
Am I the first one here to think that not only was Sellers rather unpleasant, but also his reported talent was greatly exaggerated?
Thought so.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/68 "2005-08-04T16:14:35Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#):
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> **Larry Mudd** misread the question…
Argh. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/69 "2005-08-05T17:13:36Z")
**Eve** n now there may be hope…
I heard Sellers was a Judo blackbelt, I wonder what he was like as a Judoka tot rain with?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/70 "2005-08-10T14:18:28Z")
> [@stringy](#):
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> One of the writers on the commentary kept wondering why Sellers didn’t get counselling for his bipolar condition (diagnosed by the writer? or is that a fact?), but would that have been an option for a guy in the UK during the 60s?
I apologize for hijacking this thread by actually addressing one of the issues – but the answer to this question is “no.” My mother was bipolar, and I assure you, none of the shrinks she saw during the '60s had a clue what the problem was. She was finally diagnosed in the mid '70s, IIRC.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/71 "2005-08-10T16:38:48Z")
Spike Milligan (another Goon) was also bipolar, in fact only Harry Secombe of the Goons seems to have been sane in his real life.
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/72 "2005-08-10T18:17:35Z")
Just think how anticlimactic it will be when **Eve** really shows up….
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/73 "2005-08-10T18:27:28Z")
Personally, I’m hoping for a surprisel guest appearance by **Eve 6** , stunning the world with their unannounced comeback right here on the Straight Dope! 🆒
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### Author:  [@Pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pez)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/74 "2005-08-10T20:04:11Z")
I was Eve for 20 minutes in the 60’s
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### Author:  [@stnic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stnic)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/75 "2005-08-10T23:46:43Z")
> [@Pez](#):
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> I was Eve for 20 minutes in the 60’s
I have just stumbled upon this message board. I find all of this extremely funny and want to let everyone here know you have brightened my day immeasurably. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/76 "2005-08-11T06:51:45Z")
> [@stnic](#):
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> I have just stumbled upon this message board.
I hope for the sake of your toes you hit the soft and mushy MPSIMS or CS and not the hard and sharp Pit or GQ.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/77 "2005-08-11T12:10:05Z")
> [@stnic](#):
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> I have just stumbled upon this message board. I find all of this extremely funny and want to let everyone here know you have brightened my day immeasurably. Thanks!
Just stumbled upon us? Come back when you are slobbering drunk…then post about how pathetic your life is in great detail.
It’s kinda an unwritten rule. Or not. Dopers who do this gain a special part in our cold, cold hearts and sometimes even become immortalized or, better, cliched.
Oh, and I am still not Eve and I don’t have a raft.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/78 "2005-08-11T13:55:34Z")
> [@Pez](#):
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> I was Eve for 20 minutes in the 60’s
Ah, you’re a 1960s-style “death **Eve**.”
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### Author:  [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/79 "2005-08-11T14:21:38Z")
It’s always an\*\* Eve\*\* **Eve** nt… or maybe not. 😕
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### Author:  [@stringy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stringy)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/80 "2005-08-11T14:25:46Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> I apologize for hijacking this thread by actually addressing one of the issues – but the answer to this question is “no.” My mother was bipolar, and I assure you, none of the shrinks she saw during the '60s had a clue what the problem was. She was finally diagnosed in the mid '70s, IIRC.
Thanks, **twickster** , that’s what I suspected would be the case. I thought the writer was being a bit dense about what would have been possible/likely then compared to now.
We now return you to your search for Eve.
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