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...Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
Although The Crimson of 1942 had editoriallyinveighed against the scandalous treatment ofJapanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, the ServiceNews had fewer scruples. "Japs Planned Death ofGrew, Charlie Chaplin," read the headline of astory on Ambassador's Grew's allegations. Atleast, Grew believed it, and the Service Newsbelieved Grew...
Jacqui L. Landry, chaplin for Harvard students at St. Paul's Church, said that the column, though striking, is not an unusual move...
There are dumb movies, and then there are dumb movies. Making slapstick, the lowest form of humor, successful requires enormous skill and talent. Rowan Atkinson's character, Mr. Bean, whose inspired idiocy traces a direct descent from Charlie Chaplin, infuses new intelligence into unintelligent comedy. It's really too bad that such a well-wrought dumb character finds himself in such a stock dumb movie...
...movie is an offshoot of the most popular British TV comedy series of the 90s, "Mr. Bean." That show displayed the misadventures of a character who can be described as a combination of Charlie Chaplin and Woody Woodpecker. Indeed, there is a definite cartoonish quality to the silly, frivolous and mischievous schtick Atkinson perpetrates. Also cartoon-like is the inconsequential, episodic action; the audience can sit back and enjoy the mashugina machinations without bothering to worry about property damage or hurt feelings. There is a universally appealing joy in watching Atkinson interact, child-like, with the world around...