Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoot & Holler. "Laurel and Hardy did more funny stuff than Chaplin ever dreamed of," says Comic Orson Bean, vice sheik of the Manhattan tent. He finds that studying his collection of Laurel and Hardy two-reelers helps his own performances in the Broadway musical Illy a Darling. In Detroit, the 75 tent members draw on a collection of 35 Laurel and Hardy films owned by Eric Stroh, of the Stroh beer dynasty; annually, the Detroit tent awards a "Fine Mess" trophy (a phrase from a famous Hardy line)-a $15 black derby-to the man or men who have "contributed...
What repression could not fully accomplish, inner dissension did. Some Wobblies-including Helen Gurley Flynn and John Reed-drifted toward Communism. Others slowly eased their way back into society. Ralph Chaplin, as great a labor poet as Joe Hill, turned both conservative and Catholic. English-born Charles Ashleigh became a gold prospector in Mexico...
Biggest crowd catcher, next to the space capsules, is Hollywood, where maxi-size billboards show such favorites as Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe alongside such old studio props as the actual chariot used in the 1927 version of Ben Hur. The real hit is the show of short film clips from dozens of past alltime favorite movies. "We can't get the people watching the films off the platform," complained the Seven's Ivan Chermayeff. "They get tears in their eyes, who knows why? Maybe they remember when they first took their girl to the flicks...
...film; but a flashback reveals the tragic truth of Cordelier's folly; when he first became M. Opale, he felt liberated, physically light as air, uninhibited for the first time. Barrault, a brilliant mimist (Les Enfants du Paradis) plays Opale-Hyde as if he were doing a Chaplin imitation. Only in successive transformations does Opale become dangerously depraved, murderous, and maniacal...
...Chaplin adhered to the philosophy of film-making he created, long after it had been abandoned by the mainstream. But this doesn't make his art old fashioned. A Countess From Hong Kong is modern cinema, though not, perhaps, what we have come to expect from modern cinema. Take the new Chaplin film on its own terms; contrary to all those patronizing critics, the old man hasn't really lost his touch, and Countess is a glorious romance...