The Pink Panther by Max Allan Collins a look at The Return of The Pink Panther is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/03/return-of-pink-panther-written-by-frank.html where you find a few thousand other reviews - 9 out of 10

 

The Pink Panther by Max Allan Collins a look at The Return of The Pink Panther is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/03/return-of-pink-panther-written-by-frank.html where you find a few thousand other reviews

 

9 out of 10

 

The Pink Panther was on Cinemax last night and it made me think first of the glorious time we had when we saw it, not just once or twice, and the way comedy has taken the stage in America, through Orange Jesus and the cohorts of lunatics, weirdoes, felons that will rule there, and alas, we have had our own debacle here

 

When Inspector Jacques Clouseau aka phenomenal Peter Sellers https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/01/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html bungles, the audience is sometimes in disbelief, come on, how could he do that, it is not credible, does not happen in real life

Nevertheless, the absurdity of what happens around has surpassed Clouseau and some of his most outrageous acts – let me mention one that was used in our conversations, we used some of the Clouseau jokes between us – the one about the ‘munkey’, the way it was rendered was with a heavy French accent…

 

The Inspector is French after all, and he says munkey instead of monkey – so he had been demoted, he is no longer a detective at some stage, and he is sent to the lower echelons, to be a traffic cop, and while he is on the beat, he sees this beggar using a monkey to get money, he plays the accordion and pretends to be blind

So, Jacques Clouseau is asking:

 

-          Do you have a license?

 

That also with that unmistakable, hilarious accent and mispronouncing lesense or something, and the beggar is playing around, claiming he is not the one doing anything illegal, it is the monkey, and the moron inspector does not see that while he is arguing with the man with the animal, robbers are in action

While the thieves are leaving the bank, just in front of him, the fool is helping…them get away, stopping the traffic so that they escape, unaware of what they are doing, he is so silly he does not understand anything…

Furthermore, one bank official is out of the building, trying to prevent the robbers, and what the inspector does is kick this fellow, instead of being helpful, doing the right thing, he does the exact opposite

 

Now, you see that on the screen and laugh, only at the same time say this is incredible, it does not happen like that

Oh, yes, it does!

 

We have had the first round of presidential elections eight days ago and the lad who came in first is worse than Clouseau, so let me put this down, from the wisdom of the possible next leader of an EU country

Unfortunately, mine – coca cola has chips in it, there was no moon landing – now, this last one is one conspiracy theory that is favored by many idiots, around the world, including in the future US government…

 

It was rumored that Robert Kennedy junior will come here to campaign for the local fool, only they found he has had antisemitic rants, as well as many other stupid manifestations, or just disgusting, and so that was stopped

On the other hand, Kennedy is the one with the bear story and so much more – he drives on this road, finds a bear cub dead, and says I will take this road kill and eat it, puts it in the trunk of his car and continues

 

Nonetheless, he remembers that he is invited for dinner, so he could not eat the road kill, he decides to stop in Central Park, New York, and dump the carcass, arranging it so that it looks like a…Bicycle accident!

I mean, if you see this in a comedy or anything else, you feel this is impossible, who would do such a thing?

 

Well, the future Secretary of Health in the USA

 

What can we expect from our very own idiot, I think I have heard he did not graduate high school, or anyway, did not get the baccalaureate

This is dangerous, not just ludicrous, for he favors Putin, ‘who loves his country’ – yeah, right, but he also loves other people’s countries and does not feel any qualms about getting them, look at Ukraine, what is left of it

So, comedy is good in fiction, often it is nice to laugh at stupid things, but his is getting too much…I sometimes look at those videos with people falling on ice, dogs running into windows, even that is cruel sometimes…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

 

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”