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...designer Peter Agoos and lighting crew David Chaplin and Marlene Nelson were vital collaborators in the general success. Agoos' three-tiered circular stage gave the performers both space and a versatile set for barrooms and statues. With a thrust stage and cabaret setting the lighting was crucial--and flawless...
Modern Times, with Chaplin. Harvard Square, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55. With Sundays and Cybele...
...year of the Tramp in the Academy Awards. With the little fellow's creator, Charlie Chaplin, on hand for his honorary Oscar, the rest of the usual inanity was almost bearable. In its professional judgments, the Academy showed an unforgivable lapse: neither John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday nor Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange collected a single Oscar. The acting awards, on the other hand, were highly plausible. Most striking was Jane Fonda's citation as Best Actress for her portrayal of a call girl in Klute, showing that Hollywood is no longer totally hysterical...
...Carter Burden, there was a burst of applause as he entered the dining room. He lingered at the table, telling stories well into the afternoon, then had Photographer Richard Avedon up to his Plaza Hotel suite for their second sitting (the first was 20 years ago, on the day Chaplin left America). Later he visited Gracie Mansion, where Mayor John V. Lindsay presented him with the city's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion. "Smile!" yelled the photographers. "I'm afraid my teeth would fall out," cracked Chaplin, cupping a hand beneath his chin...
...week's end the Charlie Chaplin who arrived in Hollywood to receive his second special Oscar-for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of this century"-was still an old man who did not walk very fast or see very well. But he was not the same old man who had arrived in the U.S. a few days earlier. He knew that he was home and-as he said-that he had been reborn...