Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclaimed that "enemy ships" standing a few hundred yards offshore had pumped 20-mm. cannon shells into a suburb of Havana. "We hold the U.S. Government responsible," he cried. Actually, the bombardment was an unopposed nighttime firing on a waterfront Havana hotel housing Iron Curtain technicians, and the nearby Chaplin Theater, from a surplus PT boat and a fast cruiser manned by 20 members of the under ground Revolutionary Student Directo rate. The raid seems to have come as a surprise to Washington...
...left their Connecticut home. Now the shy, long-seclusive Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh, 60, and his authoress wife Anne Morrow, 56, are building an aerie high on the vineyard-studded slopes of Corsier above Switzerland's Lake Geneva; just below is the villa of Charlie Chaplin, who also enjoys the secluded life. But it will be a year before the two are neighbors. All that is completed on the one-acre plot commanding a view that will please his aviator's eye is the wall that Lindy wants around his future home...
Director Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim), a prime mover of the New Wave, exploits his star's Chaplinesque lost-waif charm, but Aznavour lacks the clownish resilience that enabled Chaplin's eternal tramp to give as good as he took from life. A hero who falls to his defeat generates dramatic interest; but the piano player seems to wallow in the complacency of his own despair, as if he were past caring and past caring about. Truffaut's centrifugal direction sends pieces of crime thriller, love story, and psychological case study flying off at unrelated tangents. Moreover...
Unlocked Cages. Perhaps reacting to his dark-haired, dark-eyed mother, he has had three blonde, blue-eyed wives. The first was Virginia Cherrill, the flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights; the second was Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton, and Cary will go down in history as one Hutton husband who did not ask for alimony; the third is Actress Betsy Drake, whose grandfather built Chicago's Drake and Blackstone hotels...
Born. To Charlie Chaplin, 73, ageless genius, and Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 37: their eighth child, third son; in Lausanne, Switzerland...