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...Tramp of silent films was buried in Switzerland last week, following his death on Christmas Day at the age of 88, the final scene was a family affair. Wife Oona, 52, a small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin was "a progenitor from whom everybody else descends," noted Italian Director Federico Fellini, adding his voice to a worldwide chorus of eulogies...
...reality, Sontag urges, is rendered surrealist by the camera. Surrealist not in the banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything...
...most mammoth blaze along the West Coast is in the Los Padres National Forest, just east of California's lovely Big Sur. Roaring on for two weeks, the inferno has consumed 92,200 acres, feeding on miles and miles of vegetation turned bone-dry by a two-year drought. A Forest Service official says the energy ignited in every 1,000 acres of the compacted underbrush is equivalent to that of the "bomb dropped on Hiroshima...
...described by Wells on the print ed page, these figures have a certain evocative power ("Imagine yourself sur rounded by all the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive . . ."). But when they lope right on screen, they are too literal. They cease to be creatures of the viewer's imagination and become exhibits of the make up man's craft. It is hard, in fact, to sup press a giggle as one spots a resemblance between the Lionman and Bert Lahr on the road to Oz, or begins comparing the nose job of Richard Basehart...
...made witness to the process of painting: how this too obtrusive yellow is cut back, leaving the ghost of itself along a charcoal line; how that 45° cut is sharpened, then blurred, then hidden by veils of overpainting. To scan the sur face of a big Ocean Park is to watch these inflections become a kind of transparency, bathing the text...