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A small town in the western Indian state of Gujarat is an unlikely haven for Charlie Chaplin impersonators. The BBC's Soutik Biswas travelled to the town of Adipur to find out why.
In the rising heat of a flaming Indian summer, more than 100 people have gathered in a small town in Gujarat to celebrate Charlie Chaplin's birthday.
There are girls and boys, men and women. They are young and old, fit and feeble. They have all trooped out into the streets of Adipur dressed up like the legendary actor's tramp - toothbrush moustache, bowler hat, scruffy black suit, cane.
What binds them is a love of Chaplin's cinema - most are members of the Charlie Circle, a local fan club which has been celebrating the actor's birthday every April since 1973.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8631348.stmA small town in the western Indian state of Gujarat is an unlikely haven for Charlie... more
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Two silent film actors enjoy Sun Chips in it's new compostable bag!
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Before tonight's new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, in which our hordes of webcammers take on Daybreakers, Youth in Revolt and Leap Year like 3D Na'vi, we've got a sneak peek with Matthew Broderick!
The actor sits down and reveals his Five Favorite Films--of the moment--as his film, Wonderful World is making the theatrical (and VOD) rounds:
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Matthew Broderick, star of Wonderful World, shares his Five Favorite Films, love of Charlie Chaplin and two Walter Huston roles that range from "the most adult" to the happiest jig you've ever seen.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesMatthew Broderick, star of Wonderful World, shares his Five Favorite Films, love of... more
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this evil socialist who worked with eugene debs and max eastman kicks us down some knowledgethis evil socialist who worked with eugene debs and max eastman kicks us down some... more
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“The Birth of Cinema” is a wonderful short film that shows us some of the earliest pioneers and films in the history of motion pictures. Like fun house mirrors, motion pictures over the past hundred years have reflected, challenged, influenced and altered our visions of ourselves and the world. Today, moving pictures are so much a part of modern life that it's hard to imagine a time before their invention. “The Birth of Cinema” takes us back to see some of the pioneering moving picture inventors; it gives us a look at some of the important first films and at many of the popular actors in the early days of film, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
This detailed article includes a number of great vintage photographs, as well as the delightful short film, “The Birth of Cinema.”“The Birth of Cinema” is a wonderful short film that shows us some of the... more
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"“My clowning, as the world calls it - and I dislike the word clown, for I am not a clown - may have esoteric meanings. I prefer to think of myself as a mimetic satirist.”
Thus proclaims the great comedian as he backs off in distaste from his own talent. The year is 1920 and the speaker is Charlie Chaplin, at that moment the most famous, even beloved living human being on Planet Earth. He can do no wrong. It is not enough. Charlie will not rest until the world accepts him as a serious artist.
Here is where it begins: The figure of the funnyman for whom “funny” curdles in the harsh light of success. Within Chaplin’s high-flown locutions is the DNA of every subsequent comic genius who has insisted he’s more than that, from Jerry Lewis to Woody Allen to Robin Williams to Jim Carrey.
The current specimen is Judd Apatow, the writer-director of “Funny People.” Apatow’s 2004 breakthrough, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” was about a 40-year-old virgin (Steve Carell). “Funny People” is about a comedian with cancer. This is what the culture calls artistic progress.
Perhaps the culture is mistaken, though. Or is it the comedian who errs? Who decides that laughter is a lesser response than the sigh or the sob? Why isn’t the gift of transfixing audiences with delighted surprise, with forging new connections from the absurdities of life, with undercutting pretentiousness and reminding us of the shock of the real, not considered a profound thing?
Perhaps the answer lies in a comedian’s psychological profile. The stereotype, of course, is of the class clown who will do anything for a laugh, with laughter standing in for attention and attention standing in for love. The competitive drive that fuels a racing mind can mask deep insecurity, always feeding, always hungry.
That drive can create great comic art out of isolation, resentment, and self-pity: Think of all the “little men,” before and after Chaplin, who have gotten laughs from exacting revenge on the pompous and complacent. The jesters of popular culture, comedians speak truth to power, but they can still hate themselves for not fitting in. That self-loathing can be expressed thusly: If I’m good at this, it must not be worth doing. Thus the bid for respect; thus Richard Pryor making “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling.”
The more self-aware comic artists have made the desire to be unfunny their subject from time to time, with mixed results. Allen’s 1980 “Stardust Memories” remains one of his ugliest works, with the filmmaker painting as Diane Arbus-like freaks those fans who spurned his vapid Ingmar Bergman imitations (by which I mean “Interiors”) and clamored for the “old, funny Woody” to return.""“My clowning, as the world calls it - and I dislike the word clown, for I... more
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1. Helen Keller
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. Burl Ives
4. Pete Seeger
5. Artie Shaw
6. Zero Mostel
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. Langston Hughes
9. and 10. Orson Welles and Dolores del Rio.
Helen Keller! Seriously? What harm could she have done?1. Helen Keller
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. Burl Ives
4. Pete Seeger
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The Tramp - Charlie is a tramp on the road. A hobo manages to exchange Charlie's sandwich for a brick so Charlie must eat grass. The same hobo molests a farmer's daughter; Charlie comes to aid with the help of the brick. When two more hobos show up Charlie throws all three into a lake. The grateful girl takes Charlie home where he fails as a farmhand. He again helps drive off the hobos (who are now trying to break into the house). The girl's fiance arrives. Though a hero, Charlie, knowing he must go, writes a farewell note and leaves for the open road.The Tramp - Charlie is a tramp on the road. A hobo manages to exchange Charlie's... more
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Sydney Earle Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's son and himself a Tony-winning actor who starred on Broadway opposite Judy Holliday in "Bells Are Ringing" and Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl," has died at 82.
Chaplin died Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, longtime family friend Jerry Bodie told The Associated Press on Thursday. He said Chaplin had recently suffered a stroke.
"He was one of those guys who just sort of trooped through history," Bodie said of Chaplin, recalling his friend as a gregarious man who struck up friendships with everyone from Albert Einstein to Frank Sinatra.
Chaplin appeared in two of his father's later films, "Limelight" (1952) and "The Countess from Hong Kong" (1967). But he never achieved the success in Hollywood that he enjoyed in New York's musical theater.
He won his Tony for "Bells Are Ringing," the 1956 Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical about a telephone answering service operator (Holliday) who falls in love with a customer (Chaplin). New York Herald Tribune critic Walter Kerr wrote that the actor "doubles the evening's warmth by the simple expedient of believing in its love story."
His best-remembered show, though, was the 1964 smash "Funny Girl" as Nicky Arnstein, the gambler who woos Streisand in her star-making role as Fanny Brice. The New York Times called him "a tall, elegant figure as Nick, gallant in courting and doing his best when he must be noble."
Chaplin married Margaret Beebe in 1998 after a 14-year engagement. He was previously married to actress Noelle Adam and to Susan Magnes.
Chaplin's father died in 1977 at age 88; his mother died in 1995 at 87.
Several other of Charlie Chaplin's children also had acting careers, most prominently Geraldine Chaplin, one of his eight children with Oona. She has appeared in such films as "Nashville," "Doctor Zhivago" and the 1992 film biography "Chaplin," in which she played her paternal grandmother.
Sydney Chaplin's survivors include his wife, Margaret, and a son, Stephan Chaplin.Sydney Earle Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's son and himself a Tony-winning actor who... more
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Geraldine Chaplin has paid a visit to Lisbon to see the exhibition dedicated to her father, “Chaplin in Pictures”. The exhibition, which includes photos, posters, newspaper articles and excerpts from films from the Chaplin family archives, is part of the Lisbon Village Festival.Geraldine Chaplin has paid a visit to Lisbon to see the exhibition dedicated to her... more
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Miss Plucky is appetizingly luscious, and she's a hefty gal too!! In a funny way, she calls to mind the hilarious Big Bird scene from Charlie Chaplin's 1925 silent film, The Gold Rush.
This humorous piece includes great photographs, as well as a hilarious video of The Big Bird scene from The Gold Rush.
Chuckle and enjoy!!Miss Plucky is appetizingly luscious, and she's a hefty gal too!! In a funny... more
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The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin - missing since his grave was robbed 11 weeks ago - has been found.
It was dug up from a field about a mile away from the Chaplin home in Corsier near Lausanne, Switzerland.
The legendary comedian died on Christmas Day last year, aged 88. He was buried two days later in the village of Corsier in the hills above Lake Geneva.
Charlie would have thought it ridiculous
Lady Oona Chaplin
Swiss police have arrested two men - a Pole aged 24 and a Bulgarian aged 38 - and say they have confessed to stealing the coffin and reburying it.
Names of the accused have not been released, but police say they are both motor mechanics.
They were traced after police kept a watch on 200 phone kiosks and tapped the Chaplins' phone after the family received ransom demands of £400,000 for return of the body after it went missing in March.
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