Word: chaplinitis
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...DIED. KIHARU NAKAMURA, 90, English-speaking geisha from Tokyo's Shimbashi quarter, who entertained such visitors as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau; in New York City. Daughter of a doctor, Nakamura worked as a geisha for 27 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1956 and later wrote a memoir that was translated into eight languages. In a 1989 interview with the Los Angeles Times, she lamented the loss of the geisha's art in her country. "Japan has become rich," she said. "But the people's minds are getting poorer...
...about it. And the finer critical minds were always dubious about him. "Bob Hope is a good radio comedian, with a pleasing presence, but not much more," critic James Agee wrote in his lament for the passing of comedy's Golden Age. Hope lacked Groucho's surrealism, Fields' misanthropy, Chaplin's soul, not to mention that element of the grotesque they all shared. Dapper and a trifle distant in his suit and tie, he also lacked their patience in building and extending gag sequences. Typical American that he was, he always wanted the instant gratification of the big boff...
...took his movies on the road. He dispatched eight teams of projectionists around the country in what he calls cinema caravans-cars loaded with video projectors, amplifiers and screens-which stopped in every town to show not only the educational films but also old classics such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reels. The outdoor screenings were a hit, and the projectionists stayed up late into the nights, showing the movies over and over. "My people have been waiting such a long time to laugh after so much suffering and tragedy," says Barmak. "Our technical guys cried...
...deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw...
...WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE IN THE GROUP OF HITCHCOCK, CHAPLIN, HOWARD HAWKS, RENOIR, KING VIDOR, ANTONIONI AND ANDRZEJ WAJDA--GREAT DIRECTORS WHO NEVER WON A COMPETITIVE OSCAR BUT LATE IN LIFE GOT AN HONORARY AWARD? Oh, that'd be wonderful. Yeah, I'm fine with that...