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...first came into his viewfinder during the filming of A Lovely Summer Morning two years ago, and since then Spanish Cameraman Manuel Velasco, 23, has absolutely refused to let Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, out of his sight. It got so that even though she was dating other fellows, the gossips were insisting that soon there would be a Velasco on either side of the camera. Not so, said Charlie's daughter. "I have no intention of marrying until I'm 30 at least." That does seem a bit of a wait, but Manuel looked reasonably patient when...
Alas, it seems that Charlie Chaplin, 77, has not kept up with modern times. After A Countess from Hong Kong, his first film since 1957's A King in New York, had its world premiere in London, the critics emerged in a rattle of pans. "The heart of the film lies pickled in the formaldehyde of the Thirties," wrote the Sun, and the Daily Sketch mourned: "It croaks and creaks like an aged mechanical toy." Director Chaplin, who played only a cameo role in Countess and left the acting to Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando, said that he couldn...
...Piano Concerto as a conflict between man and society: "The piano is born. Then the orchestra teaches it what to say. The piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous." In the first movement, the piano lightheartedly followed the lead of the orchestra, then gradually swerved off on its own tangent, while the orchestra shouted its disapproval with great thunderclaps of dense, dissonant chords...
...When it was done," moaned Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, "I felt weird. Naked. I felt I'd forgotten to put on my trousers or my sweater or something." It seems that for her part in a murder movie called Stranger in the House, Charlie's daughter had to have her 30-in. tresses snipped off, wound up looking more like her father than ever. "Well," she said on the set in London, "it was nice to be feminine once." She still looked distinctly like a girl, however, when she climbed a fence between scenes and displayed some...
Currently none of the college collections is large enough to permit an overall study of the history and criticism of the cinema from Charlie Chaplin to Andy Warhol, James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts said yesterday...