Word: chaplin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King and William Sloan Coffin, Yale chaplin, were the main speakers at the Memorial Service at the Washington National Cathedral this evening...
BUTCH CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid is just barely a Western. It wavers between a New Yorker cartoon version of the Old West and an anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...
Although the works might appear to be flip, slick and sexy, they also brim with menace. When they are funny, which is often, it is with the precarious humor of Harold Lloyd teetering on the edge of a cliff, or Charlie Chaplin falling into a machine. The pictures visually crowd the spectator, jostle and shout at him. All the vernacular of commercialism-billboards, neon signs, girlie magazines, comic books-provides the imagery. By using such familiar props, the Pop artists are commenting on the new urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Sophia Loren is The Countess from Hong Kong (1967) who takes advantage of rich American Ambassador Marlon Brando by stowing away in his stateroom. Charles Chaplin wrote and directed the film...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). A tribute to "The Eternal Tramp"-Charlie Chaplin. Harry Hurwitz's documentary footage is narrated by Gloria Swanson...