Can anyone recreate the inspired absurdity of Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau?
Up on his cloud or (more likely) down in the First Circle of his personal Hell, Peter Sellers will be spitting pins. There was always rivalry between himself and the director Blake Edwards over who was most responsible for inventing Clouseau, yet the poster for the latest remake of The Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin, brooks no contradiction. ‘Based on the characters created by Blake Edwards,’ we read. Sellers has been airbrushed out of the credits – indeed, out of movie history.
