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...instant, I felt like the Jewish barber played by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator when he was mistaken for Hitler. I thought the crowd was going to stomp on me the way I had seen another crowd stomp on Rockefeller the day before and the way I knew this one was itching to stomp on Reagan. And in a way, I wanted to get up there on somebody's shoulders and render a version of Charlie's corny speech in which I would tell all those Reagan supporters a thing or two about the problems of this nation...
...Minh has been playing a kind of political character part: power disguised as innocence. A harmless-looking old party with a ridiculous beard and a peasant's jacket, the leader of North Viet Nam conjures up for many people the image of "a Franciscan Gandhi" or "Chaplin at his most affecting." So says Le Monde Journalist Jean Lacouture, who adds: "This is a man so fragile that he seems to survive only by the sheer force of his imagination...
...perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges in a few boxing-ring victory gestures, and comically assumes a Charlie Chaplin cross-legged stance...
Fear of Censorship. Certain treatments of homosexuality, of course, are as old to movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made...
Died. Charles Chaplin Jr., 42, eldest son of the comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy...