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...Abstract-Expressionist hierarchy, so that to this day one rarely finds more than a few sentences about him in the official histories. Ten years ago he returned to the California coast where he was born, buying a house in Santa Monica that once belonged to Charlie Chaplin. He still keeps studios in Europe, and, at 49, remains the compleat internationalist...
ORSON WELLES I: Keston in The General, Langdon in Saturday Afternoon, and Chaplin in The Rink...
...photo that particularly intrigued Mills. Peering out from under fierce Irish eyebrows and a flat cap was a thin-faced youth garbed in short trousers, waistcoat, athletic socks and huge clunky boots. "I couldn't believe it," recalls Mills. "He looked like a young Charlie Chaplin." As it turned out, it was a getup that O'Sullivan had cannily contrived to draw attention to himself...
...Silent Years: Chaplin's The Gold Rush. See it again. Orson Welles hosts. Friday, 9:30 p.m., CHANNEL...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin made this satire on Fascism in 1939, and the politics are painful in their relative gentleness. But forget the occasional awkwardness; the man's heart was in the right place, and so were his incredible talents--particularly in a ballet of world conquest that the Fooey dances with a bouncing globe. With Jack Oakie. THE PLAZA...