Word: chaplinitis
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That evening New York's welcome began to warm up. Gloria Vanderbiit Cooper, who has known Charlie's wife Oona since they were both 14 (and who also once married a famous oldster, Conductor Leopold Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting...
Next day, though, he was nervous again about the public reception that awaited him at Lincoln Center; he was too tense to attend a preliminary screening of two 1921 Chaplin films: The Idle Class and The Kid. At a cocktail party for about 50 notables at a suite in his hotel, Charlie and Oona came late, sat down, and limited their conversation pretty much...
President Nixon's representatives were Presidential Aide Leonard Garment, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Nancy Hanks and USIA Director Frank Shakespeare-like everyone else, they cheered and clapped. Charlie Chaplin stood at a microphone, waving and miming a little. Then he became very serious. "This is my renaissance," he said. "I'm being born again. It's easy for you, but it's very difficult for me to speak tonight, because I feel very emotional. However, I'm glad to be amongst so many friends. Thank...
...champagne reception was a champagne shambles. Chaplin had specifically requested that his table not be cordoned off from the crowd, but perhaps he had forgotten about New Yorkers. Flashing their tickets at the ushers, they made a surging subway jam of black ties and decolletage, pressing around the table where Charlie...
...wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with him for a couple of minutes. A nearby window was a refracted pattern of outsiders with faces and noses pressed against the glass, waving to attract his attention. But for all the loud confusion, when tired, old Charlie Chaplin made his way out at last, shielded by policemen and supported by his wife and son-in-law, his face was alight with pleasure...