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Thanks for the laughs, mate! Arthur will always be one of my all-time favorite movies.
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I was just astonished to learn that Dudley Moore made his home in the town where I grew up...Plainfield, New Jersey. A pretty modest suburb as a whole. There was one semi-exclusive area on the East Side, but it's not the type of town you'd expect a celebrity of his stature to buy a home. A friend suggested it might be because no one expected to see him there, so he wasn't noticed in public and had a freedom of movement he wouldn't have had in LA, NYC, or London. An it's convenient to NYC (just 30 miles away).
And you're so right, Max...to be falsely pummeled by the press for a horrible illness like that without apology is beyond reproach. What a revolting thing to do to a person. I was highly upset when I learned they did that to that poor man...he was suffering enough through the loss of his mobility and the loss of his talent. He will be missed.
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I saw him first in Beyond the Fringe with Jonathan Miller, Peter Cooke and Alan Bennet. I had never laughed so much in my whole life. They approached "taboo" topics with great verve and humour - comedy was never quite the same again. I think one could claim that they did for the comedy stage what the goons did to radio - and the two teams had a lot in common, of course.
Another one gone, and sadly missed.
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Whilst looking up Dudley Moore on http://www.imdb.com I came across this quote from Blackadder the third: Oh, I'm sorry sir. I'm inuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericumbobulations. Edmund Blackadder, EsqHas tsuwm met his match??!!
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I see that Milton Berle has shuffled off this mortal coil as well. That makes it the frood, the mad and the buggy in the past few weeks ... 2002, a year in which, if you are a comic, you should find a bomb shelter to live in!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Every one of the "Not Only but Also" shows that he did together with Peter Cook was hilarious and a joy to watch, the Pete and Dud conversations in particular. What will always stay in my memory, however, is the sketch where Dudley played the role of an out of work one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan. He and Peter Cook milked it dry in the way that John Cleese milked the dead parrot sketch. Two classics.
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Wow, I had not heard about Dudley Moore dying until I logged onto AWADtalk just now....What did he die of? people are referring to whatever-it-was so obliquely, I still don't know....
My fave Dud and Pete scene is the Frog and Peach Restaurant....! in which Dud played a reporter, interviewing an old colonel about his restaurant on the moors (parking wasn't a problem since so many cars were lost to quicksand/bogs/mires).
Dud: You opened up (just after? during? I forget which!) the war, didn't you?
Pete: Yes. Bad business, that war.
Dud: (supressing a smile) Yes, I think a lot of people thought so.
Pete: Yes, but I wrote a lettah.
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Those of USn's not fortunate enough to have been around in the UK at the time of 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'The Goon Show' are, however, latterly blessed by NPR's weekly offering "Weekend Radio" (produced in Cleveland, of all places) where skits from same are regularly run. That's where I first heard the Tarzan skit and was amazed (having known little of Dudley Moore prior to that) to learn he was the auditioner in question.
PS: Two weeks after Spike Milligan died earlier this year, "Weekend Radio" devoted half a program to him.
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