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posted 09/30/09 01:38 PM | updated 09/30/09 01:39 PM
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A Beer, a Pizza, a Pink Panther, and You

By Michael van Baker
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Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau

Tonight begins Central Cinema's week-long run of 1964's The Pink Panther, the film in which Peter Sellers' immortal Inspector Clouseau made his debut. The 6:45 p.m. showing is all ages, 9:30 is 21 and over. Admission is $6.

I can't imagine a better way to decompress after a full day of recession than with The Pink Panther. Besides idiot-sans-savant Peter Sellers doing battle with a vengeful globe, you have the ultra-suave David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton, prime suspect in the theft of the legendary Pink Panther diamond; a boyish Robert Wagner as Lytton's nephew George; and fashion model/actress Capucine as Clouseau's wife, who's cheating on him with Lytton. She'll be the one, along with Italian bombshell Claudia Cardinale, who appears to have YSL stashed away somewhere in her closet, throwing out new finery for her to wear.

Much of the "action" takes place at Cortina D'Ampezzo in the Italian Alps, which provides a shred of an excuse for the showcasing of "It Had Better Be Tonight" ("Meglio Stasera"), with music by Henry Mancini (English lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Italian lyrics: Franco Migliacci).

There's little point in trying to solve this mystery--it's more of an exercise for Blake Edwards in updating the screwball comedy. Add in the pizza and beer at Central Cinema, and it should result in wiping your mind completely of worry. As the natives say, Va subito!

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