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...first of the novel's three parts is full of joy intensified by the painful difficulty of breaking out of loneliness and communicating this joy to loved ones: Rufus sees a Charlie Chaplin movie with his father and they walk quietly home looking "across the darkness at the lights of North Knoxville"; Jay, roused late at night to come to his sick father's bedside, makes his wife's breakfast in the 3:00 a.m. quiet of the kitchen to thank her because she had troubled to rise and make him something warm for the long night journey...
Certain scenes-the Follets watching a Charlie Chaplin movie, young Rufus visiting his great-great grandmother, a colloquy between the child and darkness-are a near-marriage of prose and poetry...
...profits. For seven years in the late '30s and early '40s he was the highest-paid executive in the nation, in 1937 made $1,296,503. Success never softened his muscle. Hollywood had it that at one time or another he used his fists tellingly on Charlie Chaplin, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn...
Intended as satire, King's few funny spots are outweighed by shrill invective and heavy-footed propaganda. King Shahdov of Estrovia (Chaplin) arrives in New York seeking refuge from a revolutionary mob. As he chants the praises of American freedom, immigration authorities take his fingerprints. Though the little mustache, baggy pants and cane are gone, flashes of the old Chaplin illuminate the screen as he pokes fun at rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long...
...King in New York impressed most critics as being less a labor of love than one of hate. To counteract this general impression, Chaplin told a Foreign Press Association luncheon in London: "I love America even now . . . I made the film for laughter." Unfortunately, Chaplin seems to have forgotten that the most unhumorous thing a humorist can do is to lose his sense of humor...