Word: film
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However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Harkensson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
Sellers answers questions with physical enactments and stand-up impressions, Burton found. "He thinks with his body and voice as well as his mind." When asked to explain the process by which he created the anonymous voice of Chance the gardener for the film Being There, the actor "began to transform himself into a computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle...
...does the badinage with Kermit seem to be entirely fortuitous in its timing. Sellers taped his Muppet appearance not long before he went to work on Being There, the film version of Jerzy Kosinski's novel about how a 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...
...film shows girls at age five or six getting clitoridectomies from women of their community who use pieces of glass and other crude instruments to perform the surgery, Counter said...
George Wald, Higgins professor of Biology Emeritus and a person who invited Harkensson to show the film, said Monday he is "amazed at Allen Counter," adding he does not believe the film was racist...