Word: chauncey
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever," Sellers once said. For a guy with no personality, he had a lot of chutzpah. Somewhere within himself, he found a way to play Dr. Strange love and Henry Orient and Inspector Clouseau. And finally, Chauncey Gardiner, the TV-weaned hero of Being There...
History will make a big fuss over Being There, because it was Sellers' last--and perhaps best--film. But for him, it was simply the closest he could come to perfection, to playing the self he didn't think existed. Chauncey Gardiner was just a man who loved a gadget...
...totally blank, isolated man, whose only knowledge of the world comes from television, emerges from the Edenic walled garden he has tended all his life to become a presidential adviser, media pundit and, finally, presidential timber himself. Sellers has indicated that in this character of Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner, as his fancy new friends later take to calling him), he has metaphorically projected more of himself than he ever did in any of his previous 50-odd screen appearances. It was, for him, a painful process?"the part that required the most care of any I ever played...
University Secretary Henry Chauncey, who oversees the police department, fired Natalie Podryhula in November after studying the accusations against her. Podryhula denied the charges and two weeks ago a grievance panel decided firing was too severe a penalty and instead imposed a six-month probation and one-month's loss of salary...
...years ago, Jerzy Kosinski wrote a short novel about an idiot gardener who does nothing but watch TV, tend to his plants, eat and sleep. His screenplay for Being There could hardly be more faithful to the novel. According to Kosinski's metaphorical fable, the TV-idiot, Chauncey Gardiner (Sellers), bumps his way to the mansion of influential, dying financier, Melvyn Douglas and his younger, sex-starved wife Shirley MacLaine. So limited is Gardiner's intelligence that his communication consists only of child-like imitations of people he has seen on TV or references to his beloved garden. The hilarity...