The world acccording to (UNICEF) Ustinov (says Palestinian bombers are "courageous")

Arab News ^ | July 23, 2002 | Matthew Sweet

[zapiks44]

As if we needed more evidence that the UN is morally and intellectually bankrupt...

[Vidalia]

What is the brand of battery are they using to keep Peter Ustinov up and babbling?

The man did great work before his brains surely and slowly melted and ended up in his Depends.

A semi-comatose celebrity is now another "expert" on world events?

Is he even able to make it to the bathroom on his own?

This is not pathetic, this is sick.

[American in Israel]

“I am well prepared, and, I must say, rather unsurprised by old age. There are only one or two things that I didn’t anticipate. A sort of panic, occasionally...

That is the spirit responding to the call of hell. What you have sown, you reap and in his case, at 81 the reaper is knocking at the door. The spirit knows this, while the mind to the end denys...

[The Great Satan]

I always thought of peter ustinov as an embarassingly unfunny, hideously self-enamored bore. I also assumed he was dead already, but I see that I was, unfortunately, mistaken about that.

[sheik yerbouty]

A "Cry Hard".

[pariah]

And I’ve always regretted — especially in the light of what’s happened since — that I didn’t put my foot out, and send him and his breakfast cascading to the ground.”

And I guess he also regrets not having had the opportunity of a face-to-face encounter with one of those 'profiles in courage', so he could get a better, first-hand understanding he says we all need.

[catonsville]

Ustinov LOVES communism, Gulags and all. They drag out this wretched fool when they need old left pieties.

He hasn't learned a thing. Sad.

[texasbluebell]

Ustinov on US politics: “The American people seem quite comfortable with Bush. Which can only mean one thing. That Bill Clinton was a president of quite unnecessary brilliance.”

Says all you need to know about Ustinov.

[texasbluebell]

Ustinov LOVES communism, Gulags and all.

His parents escaped the Bolshevik Revolution, but they should have left little Peter behind.

[TxBec]

It’s a fierce, hazy day on the shore of Lake Geneva. From Ustinov’s garden, where we sit, at a table set up under a plane tree, the view usually stretches as far as Mont Blanc and Lausanne. Today, the air is so occluded with vapor that the world stops at a band of shimmering water beyond the slopes of Ustinov’s vineyards. A pair of Swiss wasps is buzzing around us, so he sends his housekeeper across the lawn for a can of insecticide.

Another Hollyweird type with too much time on his hands. Sounds like he is really roughing it in Lake Geneva, huh?

[knighthawk]

This man is the standard leftist loser. Only cowards dare only to shoot unarmed men, woman and children. Maybe a 'brave Palestinian' could come over and blow up with him, let's see if he changes his mind when his body lays full of shrapnel on the ground.

[knighthawk]

No more UN for US

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[goldstategop]

Oh I absolutely concur we should get out. I want no part of One World Government. And Peter Ustinov in his dotage and the rest of the liberal chattering class are simply fools.

[knighthawk]

Let them take off to Cuba, China or North Korea when they like commies so much. And let these states pay for their UN.

[goldstategop]

Amen. My thoughts exactly. We shouldn't have to subsidize their experiments in tyranny and deprivation of the genius that's made the greatest country in the history of the world the roaring success its come to be.

[monkey]

He says that he’d be quite happy if “Keep off the Grass” was all that was written on his tombstone.

That's pretty good.

[MinuteGal]

This tax-evader is one blubbery bloat of hypocracy. Why doesn't this crocodile-teared commie live in England where the socialist government can confiscate a big part of his earnings to support the unwashed masses he bleeds for but secretly disdains?

What a phony!

Leni

[facedown]

They require the kind of courage that none of us would have. It’s a kind of courage that’s very hard to understand. And it’s our duty to try to understand it because it is the courage of desperation.

Courage?

If you sincerely believe that you have nothing to lose in this life and everything to gain by moving on to the next life, it doesn't require courage to kill yourself and a bunch of the "enemy". Only hatred.

Courage would be required if you weren't so sure.

[ppaul]

[gaspar]

My first recollection of Ustinov was in Quo Vadis when playing Nero he uttered the memorable phrase, "Tigellinus, pass me my weeping vial." Ustinov is the sort of dilletante farceur who supports totalitarianism but is the sort of person the Stalinists took great pleasure in working to death in the Gulag.

Running out of friends in Britain who could no longer stomach his act, he moved to Switzerland where anyone with money can find a home.

This is an interesting article insofar as it reminds one of the John Wayne movie; he has cut down his nemesis and the bad man replies, "I thought you was dead."