Word: chaplinitis
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...France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted...
...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...
Where it succeeds, the film relies on the audience's tendency to laugh when it feels superior. Like Charlie Chaplin, Mr. Potts is funny because he is pitiful. As a plumber over his head in power politics, he represents all of us who are entangled in a cold war too big for us to understand or control. We laugh because, for once, we see somebody more bewildered and hopeless than...
WILLIAM Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, the Manhattan real-estate company which bought Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood lot for $650,000, will lease the studio to television film producers, build a big new shopping center on the vacant part of the land...
Born. To Charles Chaplin, 64, cinema's incomparable funnyman, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 28, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their fifth child (his ninth), second son; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight...