The good news is that those are skills all of us can build. Because being there for someone sounds simple. Sometimes, we just ...

Have you ever noticed that the people who say “ignorance is bliss” tend to be the most ignorant? Convenient, right? This old expression is taken to the extreme by one Chauncey Gardiner in “Being There ...

“I like to watch.” In uttering that line in the 1979 movie Being There, Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellers) was confessing his addiction to television. Now we have Donald Trump, who also likes to watch, ...

Since its 2003 ECM debut Changing Places, pianist Tord Gustavsen's trio has gradually been working its way out of a core concept that initially mined a surprising and remarkable wealth of what, on ...

From director Hal Ashby, Being There is wildly intelligent movie about an incredibly unintelligent man. Peter Sellers stars with Shirley MacLaine in a story about a simple-minded gardener and the ...