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...illustrating one of the Commandments), is in an impish mood here. He finds hairpin turns and deadpan delight in the sexual and political intrigue devised by screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. And Zamachowski, who has some of Dustin Hoffman's molelike ingenuity, plays Karol Karol (Charlie Charlie in Polish) as a Chaplin figure hatching a Kafka plot...
Kelly, whose credits include "Billy Bathgate" and "Chaplin," chatted affably with eager fans. She said she had "a great time" filming the movie at Harvard last year, and was glad to be back in Boston...
...known to surprise his staff by sliding his 6-ft. 3-in. frame down the middle of a conference-room table to get a closer look at a layout. Consider Zhirinovsky Beat, a semiregular Chronicles department that follows the undignified doings of the Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty bite to it," says assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. "He lets...
...children have a right to a mother who won't be heading to a nursing home just as they are heading for high school. But what about men on Metamucil and pacemakers who become fathers? Senator Strom Thurmond, who had four children in his 60s and 70s, and Charlie Chaplin, who was 73 when he fathered his last child, did not have to seek approval when they sired their offspring. By the thousands, men over 45 exercise their perpetual rights to fatherhood, marrying and remarrying, having first and second families, without challenge to their right to do so. When...
...little, are tossed out indiscriminately ("best comedy of the year" in February). A reference to the new decade always sounds impressive ("the love story of the '90s"). Gary Franklin, of Los Angeles' KCOP-TV, grades films on a 1-to-10 scale that can no longer contain his ecstasy. Chaplin and Alive! recently got a 10+, and Beauty and the Beast even managed an 11. Pat Collins, who reviews for New Jersey's WWOR-TV, gushes that Falling Down is "the first real movie of the '90s," thus raising the question of what she considered A Few Good Men (other...