Word: chaplinitis
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Once, when the Chaplins were indulging their habit of flickering a Chaplin film on the portable screen, ten-year-old Victoria asked: "Is that my grandfather?" Victoria herself never stops acting. If Charlie tells her to laugh, she can howl uproariously; when he tells her to cry, tears well and flow...
...Smoking. Chaplin has much more than his swarm of kids to keep him busy...
...star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy. His last film, 1957-3 A King in New York (made in London), was a total critical failure and almost certainly put to death any serious desires Chaplin might have had to do anything else in motion pictures...
...Chaplin collects abstract expressionist paintings, but spoofs himself to visitors by explaining: "That's the horrible taste of Charlie Chaplin." Unable to resist his old-master impulse, he mimics everyone who crosses his threshold. When the traveling circus makes its yearly visit to his village, Chaplin takes all the children and reverts to nostalgia: he prances about like his old rubbery-legged self, apes the clowns, and offers them professional advice as well. On these days, light-years shine out of his eyes. At home, like the average American husband, he loves to cook delicious steaks on an outdoor...
...Loaded." One of the first movie actors to make a million dollars, Chaplin is more than ever a rich man. "He's loaded," says his son Sydney appraisingly...