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...Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula...
After a succession of religious endorsements, King and Washington entered the chapel to the strains of "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and took their campaign to the clergy...
Founded in 1874, the paper dates its rise from 1924, when it was bought by a former police official, Matsutaro Shoriki. A business associate of the American press lord William Randolph Hearst, Shoriki echoed Hearst's populist impulses in his own dictum, "Do not trust experts because they know nothing of the masses...
Chaplin once explained that he created the character in 1915, after an accidental meeting with a hobo in San Francisco. The Tramp's resurrection was only slightly less serendipitous. IBM's advertising agency, the Madison Avenue firm Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein, was looking for someone, or something, that would attack the problem of computer fright head on. The agency was talking about using the Muppets or Marcel Marceau, the mime, when, according to Creative Director Thomas Mabley, the idea for the Tramp "sort of walked in and sat down...
...favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible cohost, he appeals to the Lord-man to man, of course: "I don't know if the concept 'You owe me one' means anything to you up there...