Word: chaplinitis
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...Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall in love with Charlie Chaplin. Judy Garland sings about a rainbow, and Europeans know it is only a dream away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most of this...
...mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby (1967). The past year alone has seen radical film versions by Peter Brook, Carlos Saura and Jean-Luc Godard...
...automobile won the public, though, its impact began to lose the artists. Diego Rivera, in his great murals Detroit Industry, showed the dehumanizing effects of assembly-line labor. So did Charlie Chaplin in his film Modern Times. Edward Hopper in Western Motel and similar paintings revealed the sterility of an emerging roadside culture. The architects, sympathetic to the potentials of technology, had a different view...
...periods of snobbery?" he asks his children and concludes that "I can frankly answer no." Yet he cannot forbear reminding them of all the impressive people and places they have experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent...
...what may be her greatest gift: "There are very few performers who can be convincingly happy onscreen, but Shirley radiates happiness. She is a clown, a genius of a clown. In every part in which she was fantastic, there was a combination of sentimentality and fun, a Charlie Chaplin cocktail. You can learn techniques, you can learn how to cry real tears. But you cannot learn how to radiate...