Peter Sellers
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Long ago, we lived in the oral culture. Orators would speak for hours on end. Now we communicate in short bursts and sound bites (injected with acronyms, see OPP blog). In between, we had enjoyed the print culture, the Morse code, radio, film and TV , before we got to the Internet with SMS, touch-screen and voice-activation. I was…
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“Being There” was first released years ago. Peter Sellers portrayed an illiterate gardener who had been walled in all his adult life. His only window to the world was through the TV screen. Hence his speech and demeanor replicated sound bites and screen gestures (awaiting for a “cut” to commercials). Shirley McClain played a society…
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