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Peter Sellers as Chauncey "Chance" Gardiner in Hal Ashby's film version of Jerzy Kosiński’s Being There
We Like to WatchThe Box Office Belletrist[16 April 2007] by Jennifer MakowskyFar more prescient today than it was 36 years ago, Jerzy Kosiński’s darkly comic novel of media and politics, Being There, lives on, thanks in part to Hal Ashby's marvelous 1979 motion picture adaptation.
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Kosinski’s script was completely thrown out and a new one was used written by Ashby and several collaborators who were pissed that Kosinski got all the credit for something he didn’t write.
Comment by Michael Dare — April 18, 2007 @ 4:19 pm