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Article: You must be joking!; How Ustinov so nearly got a licence to kill.(Life)
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2001
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Byline: FRED NORRIS
COULD you ever imagine Peter Ustinov as the original James Bond? Of course not. He made his name as Hercule Poirot, after all. Yet he was a first choice for 007.
Peter was also the first choice, and not Peter Sellers, in the Pink Panther series.
Original cast choices always come as a surprise and, in hindsight, look ridiculous.
Casting choices came up as a hot topic this week at the Alexandra Theatre where the Neil Simon comedy The Sunshine Boys is currently on stage.
This is Simon's great comedy about two ...