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...film amply illustrates Chaplin's obsessive perfectionism. His 1931 classic City Lights took more than two years to complete, as the director shot endless retakes and stopped filming for weeks at a time while he sought inspiration. For one important scene, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp first meets the blind flower seller, he shoots for weeks, groping in vain for a way to convey a crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more...
...while filming it in a style as fancy and knowing as Simone's. No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp. Ever clever, though, Jordan massages the viewer's sentimentality like Simone servicing a dim, fond client...
...People like to see Yale prove its dominance over Harvard," says Yale freshman Jerry A. Miller. "I'm going to see the new way that Yale will tramp over Harvard...
...Aram Saroyan, son of the ill-fated Saroyan-Marcus marriage, takes them from their schoolgirl days in pre-World War II Manhattan to 1983. The best scenes are perverse and poignant, like the one between Jackie Coogan, who was a child star in a Chaplin film, and the Little Tramp, who seems befuddled by age. "Charlie," says Oona, "it's Jackie Coogan, 'the kid,' darling." Chaplin whispers back: "Stop poking me. He wants residuals...
...there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces and fantastic cities that were a cross between Babylon and Mars. It was especially wonderful to know there was a country where people were free, rich and dancing on the roofs of skyscrapers, and where even a tramp could become President...