Word: chaplinitis
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...movies were ahead of the comics in developing the continuing adventure serial. Any influence that one form may have had on the other should not be exaggerated. Some directors insist, however, that there was a certain amount of give and take. "There was a connection between Happy Hooligan and Chaplin," says Italian
...Charlie Chaplin-82, and no longer as jumpy and little as he used to be-tried to look as if he were getting a real boot out of a publicity reprise of one of his more famous scenes...
...have even counted the number of images contained in Remembrance of Things Past -4,578. The Master himself has turned into a series of literary images, perhaps at the expense of his own work. There is le petit Marcel in his fur-lined greatcoat, posed like a sad Charlie Chaplin. Or running from salon to salon: the funniest and crudest young man in any room. Or crouched motionless before a rose, as if he could devour it and the whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn to those eyes: great smudged pools, staring like a lover at life...
...Hollywood. Though he claimed not to have had a cold since 1918 and said that sneezing was only a small part of his repertoire, Gilbert kerchooed his way to stage and screen success in the 1930s and '40s. His 300 films included The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Chaplin's classic Hitler spoof, The Great Dictator...
...Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, ego so often intrudes in The Name Above the Title that history is sometimes obliterated. Still, no other book has given quite so vivid a picture of the way Hollywood farms out its once infallible film makers. Capra, now 74, has not made a movie in over a decade. The kind of happy ending he perfected on screen, the whimsical triumph at the final fadeout, eludes him in life...