And here's the last bring-the-house-down moment, especially when it goes into the spin #BeingThere #TCMParty

"Being There" is my third-favorite satire of all time behind "Dr. Strangelove" at Number One and "Network" at Number Two.

Hal Ashby was always one of the most naturalistic directors of all time.

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There is a parallel narrative in the novel about the Russian quest to find out who Chance is but the film nicely dials it back to focus on the U.S. side. #BeingThere #TCMParty

Yeah, that scene where Chance gets propositioned goes way further in the book, and not to its benefit, the punchline here is perfect #BeingThere #TCMParty

Chance in the novel is described as looking like a cross between Cary Grant and Ted Kennedy (at the turn of the '70s at least). #TCMParty #BeingThere

Basehart dusted off his accent from The Brothers Karamazov. #TCMParty #BeingThere

How completely oblivious all of these people are around Gardner is always hilarious. 😂

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Fun thought experiment: How would #BeingThere play out in the age of the Internet and social media? No footprint at all! #TCMParty

MST3K fans know from Richard Baseheart as Gypsy's perpetual crush but in #BeingThere he's the Russian ambassador 😁 #TCMParty

Probably the most significant change to #BeingThere from page to screen (prior to how the denouement plays out) is the Dr. Allenby subplot. He's not in the novel. This will prove important later. #TCMParty

The throwaway line about Chance having no discernable regional accent was a real tricky thing for Peter Sellers to figure out. Ultimately he decided to take Stan Laurel's voice, drop the British accent, and then pattern his affect/pace on that of American newscasters. #TCMParty #BeingThere

#BeingThere as a film really embellishes some of the side characters, such as having the two lawyers clearly having an affair with each other. They only appear in the early going of the book. The researcher quitting is also unique to the film. #TCMParty

"It's for sure a white man's world in America" was another scene that brought the house down at my screening in '06 #BeingThere #TCMParty

I love watching Jack Warden and Shirley Maclaine (especially, but also the other actors) playing against Peter Sellers in this very restrained performance. I find it very funny, but everyone is sort of pausing all the time. It's very slow-paced!
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Nope. It depresses me intensely. I hate even seeing the poster. #BeingThere #TCMParty

That's not even in the book? They've diverted pretty significantly from the source material then, that's interesting. It might have been more successfully comedic that way, depending... #BeingThere #TCMParty.

Did you say you haven't seen it all the way through before? #BeingThere #TCMParty

"Why?" and "Hell, I don't know!" were ad-libbed in the moment. #TCMParty #BeingThere

#BeingThere plays a bit differently for me as an autistic. The telephone conversation isn't far removed from ones I've had to endure. #TCMParty

If I'm honest, the only way I can tell this is a comedy, is that people keep saying it is. Left with no influence I would think this was a drama. #BeingThere #TCMParty