Word: chaplinitis
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...decided that Will Rogers' statement "I never met a man I didn't like" was "pure flatulence, crowd-pleasing and fake humility," and acted accordingly. Prudence Crowther, Perelman's friend during his last year, provides a wide-eyed introduction to these selected letters: "I talked about the Chaplin I'd just been watching; he knew Chaplin." But her accompanying notes illuminate a long and entertaining list of the writer's enmities...
...could say she mothers the past, not yours alone, but a whole world gone. She superintends Coolidge, Chaplin, the Charleston. (She danced the Charleston.) Or that she mothers the future, herself the future to which you begin to resign yourself as your own eyes blear a bit and breaks in the bones take eternity to heal. There she sits in old age ahead of you, still mothering experience, if only by example...
...very improbable, stupid stuff, but it is also what physical farce is made of. The Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin used to play these sorts of raucous gags, and these days people like the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) are among its most skillful practitioners. Blake Edwards may have lost his touch recently, but this is the man who exposed Mary Poppins' (wife Julie Andrews') breasts in the clever Hollywood expose S.O.B., and it is also the man who exposed everything you ever wanted to know about Bo Derek in 10. In addition, he is the genius behind the Pink Panther...
...letters to, among others, Ernest Hemingway and Judge Learned Hand. The correspondence, gathered primarily from university libraries, sometimes shows him at his most scabrous. In one passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings," he wrote. "Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead...
...UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (PBS). Hitherto unseen footage of the great filmmaker at work. Assembled with uncommon care and intelligence, this entry in the American Masters series illuminated a genius...