BEING THERE
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1979 Hal Ashby movie, adapted by Jerzy Kosinki from his own novel, pretty much is a perfect little jewel of a film. Peter Sellers gives a central performance that is as brilliantly complicated as it is enigmatically simple. The music is absolutely vital, and wonderful, and weird (Deodato doing a jazz version of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra”). And the ending – wow. And seeing the movie again, uncut and interrupted on TCM? It’s one of the reasons why, like Sellers’ character of Chance the gardener, “I like to watch TV.”