Word: chaplinitis
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...Schickel brings his experience not only as critic, but also as film maker himself, having produced, directed or written 14 TV shows about film history, including last year's comedy compilation Funny Business. Declares Schickel: "My list of truly great film comedians is very short. It consists of Chaplin, Keaton, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers-and Woody Allen...
Shakespeare would have laughed. Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops would have appreciated it. The Three Stooges probably would have put it in a movie if they had seen...
...1930s, Dupee in 1937 helped recast as anti-Stalinist the Partisan Review, a radical literary magazine founded three years earlier. Eschewing his political extremism, he eventually achieved prominence as a Henry James scholar, popular poetry teacher and elegant writer on figures ranging from Sir Richard Burton to Charlie Chaplin...
...leaders are discussing plans with U.S. Steel and a Japanese firm to build a $1 billion iron ore processing complex in the north. Still, the Chinese were taking another step that seemed to weigh against modernization, the showing in several Peking movie houses of Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's 1936 mournful satire on the brutalizing aspects of overmechanization. The sight of Chaplin trapped on the assembly line could set Chinese citizens pondering the evils, as well as the blessings, of modernization...
...casting is both daring and first-rate. Altman has somehow made an ensemble out of a group that includes (in no particular order of significance) Lillian Gish, Pat McCormick, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Dina Merrill, Nina van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts...