# 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
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### Author:  [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/81 "2005-08-11T15:58:29Z")
I am not now, nor have I ever been **Eve**.
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Wellll … just that wee bit over there … want some?
As to the OP, Sellers made me laugh. Have no real info to add about his assholiness, just wanted to make my position clear regarding the emerging **Eve** business before HUAC is reconvened.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/82 "2005-08-11T16:14:35Z")
> [@Balle\_M](#):
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> I am **Eve**.
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> Well, it’s\* spelled \* “Eve” but it’s pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”
That’s funny, you don’t _look_ Jewish.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/83 "2005-08-11T16:20:40Z")
I’m not **Eve**. I may or may not, however, be the walrus.
Coo-coo-kachoo,
**Kyth**
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/84 "2005-08-11T16:39:35Z")
And… now… presenting …
Eve!
[Sub]Umm…you’re not ? Well what’s wrong with her?.. [/sub]
Catalepsy?
Well… never mind.
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/85 "2005-08-11T16:43:23Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#):
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> Did any other actor ever work with Kubrick more than once?
Maybe his and Sellers’ assholery cancelled each other out.
> [@Futile Gesture](#):
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> Am I the first one here to think that not only was Sellers rather unpleasant, but also his reported talent was greatly exaggerated?
I don’t think Sellers’ talent was itself exaggerated; however, it’s quite possible that much or even most of his work doesn’t put his talent to very good use.
Let me also add at this juncture that I am not Eve, but that I thoroughly agree that she was framed.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/86 "2005-08-11T17:37:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#):
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> That’s funny, you don’t _look_ Jewish.
I am not **Eve** , but I _do_ look shrewish.
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/87 "2005-08-11T18:09:42Z")
While we’re throwing out catch phrases,
**I burning your Eve!**
And somebody please put out a Yellow Alert in NYC to find her.
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### Author:  [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/88 "2005-08-11T18:24:08Z")
My middle name is **Eden** , is that close enough?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/89 "2005-08-11T18:33:08Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> I am not **Eve** , but I _do_ look shrewish.
Oh no, not another Shrewish American Princess. 😉
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### Author:  [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/90 "2005-08-11T18:40:43Z")
In the DVD intro to the Muppets show on which Sellers appeared, Brian Henson says that his dad talked to Sellers about how he (Henson) wanted him (Sellers) to relax and be himself. Henson claims that Sellers was apparently both horrified and terror-stricken; he claimed to be of no interest whatsoever and had no desire to be himself on screen.
This thread is the first exposure I’ve had to the idea that Sellers was actually a schmuck in real life. I had assumed from the above story that he was painfully shy. Which, of course, may also be true, and explain some of the schmuck-ness.
As for his brilliance, just watch \*Being There \* if you have any doubts whatsoever. I marvel at how incredibly difficult that role must have been to play, and how well Sellers played it. IMHO, he deserved the Oscar that year, rather than Hoffman for _Kramer vs. Kramer_.
Oh, and in case you were in any doubt, I’m unfortunately not \*\*Eve \*\* either, although I \*am \* a New Jersey woman of an (ahem) certain age.
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/91 "2005-08-11T23:15:31Z")
While I am not **Eve** , I do wonder what I’d do at this point in this thread if I were. Let’s face it, once she does turn up, the joke’s over. Would you post, or would you just let it run on?
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/92 "2005-08-11T23:38:26Z")
I wonder if a similar thread is how Beckett got the idea for Godot.
This Summer, see Meredith Baxter, Rue McLanahan, Melissa Gilbert, Patty Duke, Genevieve Bujold, Lee Meriwether, the girl who was on \*Facts of Life \* but wasn’t Blair or Jo or Tootie, Joanna Kerns, Marla Gibbs, Barbara Eden, Phylicia Rashad, Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills in the _Lifetime for Women_ world premier movie, **Waiting for Eve**.
Vladima (Rashad): Well, shall we go?
Estrogen (Gilbert): Yes, let’s go.
_They do not move._
Meredith Baxter: My character has lupus this week!
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/93 "2005-08-12T00:07:58Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> Ah, you’re a 1960s-style “death **Eve**.”
There is a movie called [Eve of Destruction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101831/)
IANESMPG\*
\*I am not **Eve** , Spartacus, or a member of any public groups
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/94 "2005-08-12T00:43:19Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> Ah, you’re a 1960s-style “death **Eve**.”
You know, **Eve** knows a lot about the 1920’s, and she has a lot of style…
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/95 "2005-08-12T00:49:22Z")
I wonder… After every SDMB member who is not **Eve** has posted here, will the Mods close the thread?
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### Author:  [@coop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coop)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/96 "2005-08-12T02:51:32Z")
Yeah, I’ll have to join in too… 🆒
I am not **Eve** either.
Unless she’s moved to Australia in the short term 😃
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/97 "2005-08-12T05:28:03Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Meredith Baxter: My character has lupus this week!
This is even funnier if you read it in Ralph Wiggum’s voice.
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/98 "2005-08-12T05:43:29Z")
I am not **Eve.**
But I want to be.
Unless it means giving up flannel shirts and demolition derbies and cheese dip made with Velveeta and Budweiser.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/99 "2005-08-12T07:22:02Z")
I have breathed the same air as **Eve**. …But that’s as close as I can come.
HOWEVER! There are only so many magical words in the word and certainly one of them will make her appear.
Abracadabra!
Walla Walla Washington!
Open Sesame!
Appear **EVE**!
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### Author:  [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-eve-re-peter-sellers/315371/100 "2005-08-12T13:00:25Z")
Anybody else suspect that she’s leaning back in her desk chair, reading this thread and laughing at all of us?
_shakes fist at sky_
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