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...most fun part of watching The Touch?and there is quite a bit of fun, some of it actually intentional?is figuring out the movie's most unrealistic element. Is it stars' Michelle Yeoh and Ben Chaplin's culture- and, uh, generation-crossing love affair? The film's Disneyfied version of Tibet, where all the monks are smiling and there's nary a P.R.C. soldier to be seen (except for the ones who were reportedly hired to play the monks)? Or is it the movie's revelation that in the new China, no one speaks Chinese...
Cameos are almost as old as movie stars. In the 1928 Show People, Marion Davies doesn't notice that the fellow asking for her autograph is Charlie Chaplin. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traded cameos in their '40s films. But this summer has a gleeful glut of celebs dropping in unannounced on other people's parties...
Professor of History Joyce E. Chaplin doesn’t quite agree that spectacle equals learning. “[Reenactments] are very good for giving people a sense of the texture of the past, but not so good about conveying the significance of specific events,” she says...
While history professors here at Harvard won’t be involved in colonial reenactments any time soon, Chaplin sees the University as a bit of a reenactment itself. “Lots of people at Harvard are self-consciously upholding traditions and enacting established rituals,” she says. “I think Harvard is rather like an open-air, living museum, though without the visual cues like wigs, farthingales and tricorns...
...causes, but rumor had Hearst murdering him. This film opts for the juicier tale. It has a lovely performance by Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Hearst's beloved mistress; she makes us see why someone might kill to keep her love. But the rest of the boaters (including Charlie Chaplin) are presented as idiot farceurs. The result is tiresome and tone-deaf and a disappointing comeback for Bogdanovich...