barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (12/29/89)
In article <25444@cup.portal.com> dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) writes:
]>> In article <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymo
]>> If you want it / here it is, come and get it
]>> But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast
]>> Was this not a theme song from a film at the time. Was it the Michael Caine
]>> one with the minis and the robbery in Italy (Venice??)? I forget the title.
]>The movie, as I recall was The Magic Christian, starring Ringo Starr and
]>(I think) Peter Sellers. I'm sure of the title, and that Starr was in it,
]>but I don't remember who starred with him. What's this got to do with
]>misc. computing?
]Thanks, Mark... I've been wracking my brain for several days trying to remember
]the title of the film; I even remembered it was the name of the ship. And
]it was David Niven, of course, not Peter Sellers.
No, Mark was right -- it was Peter Sellers. He was playing an eccentric
aristocrat, the type of role Nivens often played, but it was definitely
Sellers.
I've redirected followups to rec.arts.movies, as this has definitely
digressed from the topic of comp.misc.
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