Word: chaplinitis
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...build a theater with an atmosphere as close as possible to the customers' own living rooms. There are only 175 seats in their Village Cinema 'n' Drafthouse. Early arrivers get to see old movies and slides from the Duffy brothers' collection of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx brothers. Admission is only $1 a head. Food and drinks cost less than they do at competing entertainment spots: deli sandwiches average $2, a pitcher of beer or a carafe of wine, $4.50. "It's very difficult to get people to go out," says John Duffy...
...state of mind - a gorgeous hallucination dreamed by a few inventive writers, ambitious directors, daring producers and caring studio bosses. It is a dream that can still seize the world's imagination on a screen. And it is not a new dream. In 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn't - and isn't - a bad thing. To make films, it helps to be cost-conscious. But to make a difference...
...Witch (1942) and It Happened Tomorrow (1943), before returning to France to direct films, write novels and in 1973 produce Orphée et Eurydice at the Paris Opéra. Clair once said: "A girl and a gun always succeed. But the great masters D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin never needed that combination. I never did either...
Given the peculiarity of portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon...
Peter Sellers is dead [Aug. 4], but his unique creations-Dr. Strangelove, Inspector Clouseau, Chance the gardener -will live on. Generations not yet born will hail Sellers as a comic genius in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd. Sellers made us laugh. What better epitaph can a man have...