I met him at a Hollywood Collecters show years ago. He was wearing Farmer John type overalls. When I walked up to him, he screamed "NO! I'm NOT him! " and ran in to the crowd!!!!! LOL
I love me some Evelyn Waugh but this is one of those rare and precious movies that is orders of magnitude better than its source material. Every time I need some perking up I imagine the Reverend hovering over the countryside in his helicopter with that gigantic pipe organ sting playing behind it.
I came up behind Johnathan Winters at an antique show at the Santa Monica Civic Center some years ago (he collects miniature figures) and put my arm around his shoulder (he is very tall and had on a maroon cardigan sweeter) and said, "Reverend Glenworthy!" He went right into his role from "The Loved One". Then told me a story about WWII. I was loving it
I looked up this video clip because the actress who played Miss Thanatogenous was Anjanette Comer, who as an 11-year-old girl attended my parent's wedding in Dawson, Texas where Anjanette grew up. I just ordered the movie on Amazon, as it seems like a terrific move from this clip. Also, Jonathan Winters , as Rev. Glenworthy, is a favorite comedian of mine.
Great Terry Southern, script , and directed by Tony Richardson: Southern is best remembered for Dr. Strangelove. Here he continues the realistic poker face satire British tradition of outrageous comedy contained within the prism of a false seriousness. This time based on Evelyn Waugh's satire on the super rich and their lavish plans for their pets in Los Angeles.. We need a rival of British satire given the continued absurdity of the Western civilization as best carried on by The United States at this time.
Always had and always will have a crush on Ms. Thanatogenous. A bizarre movie to be sure and that is why it is so watchable. When I "go" I wonder of I should have the eternal or perpetual flame at the grave site?
On February 16, 1929, four months after Ned Doheny, his wife Lucy and their five children moved into Greystone, Ned died in a guest bedroom in a murder-suicide with his secretary, Hugh Plunket.[2][4] The official story indicated Plunket murdered Ned either because of a "nervous disorder" or inflamed with anger over not receiving a raise. Others point out that Ned's gun was the murder weapon and that Ned was not buried in Los Angeles' Calvary Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery, with the rest of his family, indicating that he had committed suicide. Both men are buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, within a few hundred yards of each other. Both were involved in the trial of Ned's father in the Teapot Dome scandal.[5]
