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...World War II, Joseph Stalin's personal movie library expanded. His army liberated Joseph Goebbels' film collection. On movie nights in the old winter garden of the Great Kremlin Palace, Stalin and his gang (a revolving cast of Bolshevik thugs and survivors) would watch Charlie Chaplin or Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable. Stalin particularly liked gangster and cowboy films; sexual content offended...
...whole demonstrated a great sense of comedy, saluting the blare of trumpets above whenever the word “duty” was mentioned, for instance. Bo Meng ’06, the overly weepy pirate Samuel, and T. Josiah M. Pertz ’05, the Charlie Chaplin waddling Sergeant of Police rounded out this wonderful cast, along with Allison Hymel and Emily Geller who boast perhaps the strongest voices as Mabel’s sisters Edith and Kate...
...fifth grade, I had to play a trumpet solo in front of the whole school, and completely choked. I quit band and renounced music. It’s funny—this solo that caused me to get so upset was a Charlie Chaplin piece called “Smile?...
Avedon was also a peerless celebrity photographer. He knew that every portrait was a performance but that the performance could be a passage to something true. His picture of an exhausted, tentative Marilyn Monroe is an essential window into the sum of her predicaments. His shot of Charlie Chaplin making devil's-horns at the camera is an object lesson in economical wit. Accusations of communist sympathies were pushing Chaplin away from America; Avedon gives us the funnyman trying on his new role, the bogeyman...
...comes after Chaplin?” says Massip. “Marceau. And who comes after Marceau? Nobody. We must look to the other arts for the future of mime and to students building on the past to create something...