Word: chaplinitis
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...sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...
...home country it has become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while...
...proclaimed that "enemy ships" standing a few hundred yards offshore had pumped 20-mm. cannon shells into a suburb of Havana. "We hold the U.S. Government responsible," he cried. Actually, the bombardment was an unopposed nighttime firing on a waterfront Havana hotel housing Iron Curtain technicians, and the nearby Chaplin Theater, from a surplus PT boat and a fast cruiser manned by 20 members of the under ground Revolutionary Student Directo rate. The raid seems to have come as a surprise to Washington...
...left their Connecticut home. Now the shy, long-seclusive Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh, 60, and his authoress wife Anne Morrow, 56, are building an aerie high on the vineyard-studded slopes of Corsier above Switzerland's Lake Geneva; just below is the villa of Charlie Chaplin, who also enjoys the secluded life. But it will be a year before the two are neighbors. All that is completed on the one-acre plot commanding a view that will please his aviator's eye is the wall that Lindy wants around his future home...
Director Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim), a prime mover of the New Wave, exploits his star's Chaplinesque lost-waif charm, but Aznavour lacks the clownish resilience that enabled Chaplin's eternal tramp to give as good as he took from life. A hero who falls to his defeat generates dramatic interest; but the piano player seems to wallow in the complacency of his own despair, as if he were past caring and past caring about. Truffaut's centrifugal direction sends pieces of crime thriller, love story, and psychological case study flying off at unrelated tangents. Moreover...