Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newley has obviously modeled himself on Charlie Chaplin, but he loves the master less than the master's cloak, and he wears it with a rueful difference. Where Chaplin was earthy, Newley is smirkingly vulgar. Chaplin was a prisoner of life who sang in his chains; Newley is a resentful slave of the class system who cries in his pint of bitters. Chaplin's Little Tramp was a tattered knight of the open road, dueling his foes with his wits and a twirling cane. Newley's Oh-So-Little Man, windily inflated with his rights...
...first skit, "Hungry in the Park," begins in the Chaplin vein, a hungry loafer trying to con a meal off passersby. When his begging proves unsuccessful, the tramp discovers how surprisingly delicious his fingernail tastes, and then eagerly dines on the fingers of his left hand. But before desert, the men in the white coats drag the tramp away, which is not funny...
Died. Sydney Chaplin, 80, Charlie's half-brother (his elder by four years) and former business manager, an actor in his own right, who appeared with Charlie in Mack Sennett's early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt in 1925, ended his movie career in 1939 after assisting his brother in The Great Dictator, spending his remaining years in Switzerland and France; of heart and other ailments; in Nice...
...name was no handicap. Nor was all the free publicity showered on him when a couple of Tory M.P.s protested that the bloomin' British taxpayer was forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie...
...there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow, 1,500 Red revolutionaries have just taken over a ten-acre mock-up of Moscow. The film is Doctor Zhivago, starring Egypt's Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson and, as Zhivago's young wife, Charlie Chaplin's 20-year-old daughter Geraldine. At $10 million, it is MGM's most free-spending spectacular since...