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Considering the relative smallness of his role, the Sergeant of Police (Philipp W. Grimm ’11) is the biggest surprise of the show. Grimm’s Chaplin-esque strut and alternatively glazed and manic eyes make his Sergeant absolutely aloof but somehow loveable. He heads up a police corps that proves just as memorable as the pirates themselves...
...match in the coolest possible way, how to impress a girl and, like Icarus, he discovers what happens when you get too close to a star. He rubs elbows with plenty of real people who were fast becoming Welles' loyalists, like Houseman, Joseph Cotton (James Tupper), George Coulouris (Ben Chaplin) and radio star Les Tremayne (Michael Brandon) as well as one fictional dream girl, Sonja (Claire Danes), a Vassar grad who functions as the production's girl Friday and occasionally, as Welles requires it, geisha to the resident genius. (Watch an interview with Zac Efron...
Prof. Joyce Chaplin, Wednesday, October 28, 12:00pm Leverett Private Dining Room
...quartet pretty quickly arrives in Los Angeles, where a zombie Charlie Chaplin can be seen outside Mann's Chinese Theater, and crashes the seemingly unoccupied mansion of Bill Murray. Catastrophe: no Twinkies. "See," Wichita tells Tallahassee, "I told you we should have gone to Russell Crowe's." Murray does materialize - playing a solitary star like Adam Sandler's Funny People character, but in a gentler reading - in a cameo that's wonderfully written and played and boasts one of the funniest exit lines in zombie-movie history. (See the top 25 horror movies of all time...
...call" and "Don't let me read about it." Archerd, who died Sept. 8 at 87, spent more than half a century chronicling the industry's élite for Daily Variety. He interviewed Humphrey Bogart on his deathbed, Marilyn Monroe (below, with Archerd) in her dressing room, Charlie Chaplin in the director's chair and nearly every other star in Tinseltown. For nearly 50 years, he also served as the official greeter at the Academy Awards--a role that helped earn him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...