Word: chaplinitis
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...head grifter is Sydney Chaplin, who acts as if he were carved in lard. Love sets in when a raven-haired newsgal (Carol Lawrence) starts sharing Chaplin's bench in search of a story. They are a rueful twosome, about as happy as a pair of viruses. Actress Lawrence's musicomedy gifts are under smothering wraps, and the only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten...
...drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
...London's Royal Ballet School, pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, was Geraldine Chaplin, 17, eldest daughter of Comedian Charlie and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. A month and a half of the Royal Ballet's rigorous training had presumably not yet readied the Chaplin family's latest gift to the stage for Covent Garden. But with her combination of her father's elan and her mother's exotic beauty, Geraldine was decidedly ready for Degas...
...vaulting through space to pounce on someone's stiff neck with a chiropractical jerk, or cheerily offering to chase the bats out of the guest bedroom, Eileen Heckart is wildly and wistfully amusing. Garbed in the remnants of remnants, she is an endearing clown-waif in the classic Chaplin tradition...
...discovered that most European women had only two choices in buying jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...