Word: chaplinitis
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...gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized...
...piano teacher in Shine, and he starred in a TV version of Beckett's Catastrophe the year he died. He knew so many historical figures - George Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler. The early part of the volume is dominated...
Alluding to his roles in Chaplin, Two Guys and a Girl and Wonderboys, the hosts had Downey reprise his role as Charlie Chaplin—one which earned him an Oscar nomination—and convinced two members dressed in drag that he was in love with them...
...critically acclaimed actor has become as well known for his talent as for his drug convictions. He netted a British Academy Award and an Academy Award nomination for his work in the 1992 film Chaplin...
...state-run Afghan Film Organization, fled Kabul and made documentaries for Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud (later assassinated by al-Qaeda). After the regime's overthrow, he returned to make educational films for the illiterate majority and toured the country with eight cinema caravans, which also screened old Chaplin and Keaton comedies. "Our technical guys cried," he says. "It was the first time they had seen people laugh in years...