Once on a long drive someone came on the radio and I became entranced by the quality of his speech: intellectual, nuanced, profound and knowledgeable. I was astounded. I had always presumed Peter Ustinov to be nothing more than a comedic actor. That gift was not even the tip of the iceberg. No wonder he was befriended by influential people of East and West.
Amazing. When introducing Bach, he switches to a satirical but fitting East German accent and starts talking German. Shortly afterwards, he continues to talk English with the same dialect and then (when mentioning the city where the orchestra performing it comes from - which is in West Germany), he switches to High standard German. Pure genius.
Writer, raconteur, producer, director, filmmaker, winner of Oscar's, Emmy and Golden Globes. A multilinguist described as a Renaissance man. An absolute pleasure to listen to his stories. An entertainer's entertainer!
Don't you just LOVE auto-generated text. When Eddie said "You've been Knighted?" Captions said : "You've been IGNITED" !!! I'm sure Peter would have appreciated that.
He must have had an absolute memory and perfect pitch. His recollections of Swedish pronounciation is better than most englishmen who lived here for decades. Brilliant man.
