Word: chaplinitis
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DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles as Peck's Bad Boy (1921) and Tom Sawyer (1930), and in 1923 was voted America's most popular movie actor. "Other boys went to see Babe Ruth," he recalled a half-century later. "Babe Ruth came to see me." Though he had made more than $2 million...
...life, success confused him more than failure did. He could not decide where to live, or with whom. In 1938 he and his first wife, Carol, built a house in Los Gatos, eight miles from San Jose, complete with swimming pool, and hobnobbed with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Spencer Tracy...
...with economy of narrative. When the eye, mind and heart are engaged by artful storytellers, questions of duration become irrelevant. One enduring Hollywood epic, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, ran for more than 2½ hours in 1915, when the most popular movies were Charlie Chaplin's two-reel comedies. Another Civil War melodrama, the 1939 Gone With the Wind, clocked in at 222 minutes. Yet both films tell their tales faster than Star Wars and with twice the sweep...
...vision of the world." One result of that clarification was that he saw that he wanted to make films. He started as an extra and errand boy for Jean Epstein during the filming of "Mauprat," then spent six months in Hollywood hanging around the studios and dining with Charlie Chaplin. Back in France, he did "Les Caves du Vatican," which was spliced under a magnifying glass because they'd run out of money...
...liking the way they were joined to her head. There was something complete about them; you knew they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...