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Being There: Music, Literary Connections & Art

Being There is a 1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel Being There by Jerzy Kosiński, and adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones. Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, and Richard Basehart are featured in support.…

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Being There topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Literary Connections and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Being There.

Related topics
65
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
75
Extracted relationships
64
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
75

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 18 topics
Cast · 13 topics
Reception · 11 topics
Music · 7 topics
Plot · 6 topics
Production · 5 topics
Home media · 3 topics
Awards and nominations · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
Being There 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosiński
Box office
$30.2 million (US)
Budget
$7 million
Cinematography
Caleb Deschanel
Country
United States
Directed by
Hal Ashby

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Music

Reception

Awards and nominations

Home media

Bibliography

  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Being There connects Entity context

The extracted context around Being There shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Being There → AFI Catalog, American Cipher, Ann Hornaday, Box Office MojoBeing There, Criterion Collection, Feature FilmsBeing There, IMDbBeing There, Jan, Jerry Dean Roberts, Mark Harris, National Film RegistryBeing There, No, Rotten TomatoesBeing There, TCM Movie Database, The, The Washington Post Another extracted example is Being There → Ares Magazine, Film, Gene Siskel, It, Janet Maslin, Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Peter Sellers's, Pink Panther, Roger Ebert, Sellers, The, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, Variety, Vincent Misiano. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Being There

Top relations

related to External links · 16
Being There → AFI Catalog, American Cipher, Ann Hornaday, Box Office MojoBeing There, Criterion Collection, Feature FilmsBeing There, IMDbBeing There, Jan, Jerry Dean Roberts, Mark Harris, National Film RegistryBeing There, No, Rotten TomatoesBeing There, TCM Movie Database, The, The Washington Post
related to Reception · 16
Being There → Ares Magazine, Film, Gene Siskel, It, Janet Maslin, Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Peter Sellers's, Pink Panther, Roger Ebert, Sellers, The, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, Variety, Vincent Misiano
see also · 10
Being There → Dasein, Film, Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy, Martin Heidegger's, Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Nicodemus Dyzma, Polish, Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz, Term, The Career
Starring · 6
Being There → Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Peter Sellers, Richard Basehart, Richard Dysart, Shirley MacLaine
Based on · 1
Being There → Being There 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosiński
Box office · 1
Being There → $30.2 million (US)
Budget · 1
Being There → $7 million
Cinematography · 1
Being There → Caleb Deschanel
Country · 1
Being There → United States
Directed by · 1
Being There → Hal Ashby

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

film chance sellers peter chauncey also ben best eve ashby isbn douglas screenplay music new york gardener award maclaine hal

Being There relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 64 structured relationships around Being There. Examples in this analysis include Being There → Based on → Being There 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosiński and Being There → Box office → $30.2 million (US). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Being ThereBased onBeing There 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosiński1.00infobox
Being ThereBox office$30.2 million (US)1.00infobox
Being ThereBudget$7 million1.00infobox
Being ThereCinematographyCaleb Deschanel1.00infobox
Being ThereCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Being ThereDirected byHal Ashby1.00infobox
Being ThereDistributed byUnited Artists1.00infobox
Being ThereEdited byDon Zimmerman1.00infobox
Being ThereLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Being ThereMusic byJohnny Mandel1.00infobox
Being ThereProduced byAndrew Braunsberg1.00infobox
Being ThereProduction companyLorimar Productions1.00infobox
Being ThereRelease dateDecember 19, 1979 (1979-12-19)1.00infobox
Being ThereRunning time130 minutes1.00infobox
Being ThereScreenplay byJerzy Kosiński[a]1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringPeter Sellers1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringShirley MacLaine1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringMelvyn Douglas1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringJack Warden1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringRichard Dysart1.00infobox
Being ThereStarringRichard Basehart1.00infobox
Being Thereis a1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Being There bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Maclaine, Sellers and Melvyn. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • peter sellers
    • Maclaine
    • Sellers
    • Melvyn
    • Shirley
    • Ashby
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Warden
    • Hal
    • Life
    • Richard
    • Us
  • shirley maclaine
    • Melvyn
    • Shirley
    • Warden
    • Peter
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Richard
    • Sellers
    • Basehart
    • Chauncey
    • Life
    • Novel
  • melvyn douglas
    • Shirley
    • Melvyn
    • Maclaine
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Warden
    • Richard
    • Peter
    • Sellers
    • Basehart
    • Novel
    • Award
  • hal ashby
    • Hal
    • Novel
    • Sellers
    • Based
    • Us
    • Peter
    • Basehart
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Melvyn
    • Shirley
    • Warden
  • jack warden
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Warden
    • Richard
    • Basehart
    • Melvyn
    • Shirley
    • Douglas
    • Maclaine
    • Novel
    • Peter
    • Based
  • richard basehart
    • Richard
    • Warden
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Shirley
    • Melvyn
    • Novel
    • Ben
    • Douglas
    • Hal
    • Maclaine
    • Music
  • national film registry
    • Sellers
    • Peter
    • Death
    • Political
    • Scene
    • Times
    • Best
    • Also
    • Chance
    • Melvyn
    • Novel
    • Shirley
  • the life and death of peter sellers
    • Maclaine
    • Sellers
    • Melvyn
    • Shirley
    • Ashby
    • Dysart
    • Jack
    • Warden
    • Hal
    • Life
    • Peter
    • Richard

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Being There, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Being There with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Being ThereOverview · splits 57 ⟂ 19
Being ThereCast · splits 62 ⟂ 14
Being ThereReception · splits 64 ⟂ 12
Being ThereMusic · splits 68 ⟂ 8
Being TherePlot · splits 69 ⟂ 7
Being ThereProduction · splits 70 ⟂ 6
Being ThereHome media · splits 72 ⟂ 4
Being ThereAwards and nominations · splits 73 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Being There

Nodes76
Edges75
Triples64
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Being There to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Literary Connections & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Being There · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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