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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former home by Lake Geneva to showcase life and work of legendary actor Charlie Chaplin's Swiss mansion is to become a museum, one of his sons said today. The Corsier-sur-Vevey property by Lake Geneva was chosen over sites in Los Angeles and London as the site of the first museum dedicated to the screen legend, said Michael Chaplin. The museum, which has been a decade in the planning and will be finished...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday
-- Financial trouble: LACMA loses 23% of its investments in the last fiscal year. One victim is Jeff Koons' dangling train project, which was scheduled to arrive at LACMA in 2011-12, and is now delayed for three more years. (Los...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
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rediff Movies (Free subscription) | yesterday
A look at the Malayalam remake of Charlie Chaplin and No Entry.
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MTV News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guest verses from Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Cam'ron boost incarcerated MC's latest, due December 8. By Shaheem Reid Gucci Mane Photo: Rick Diamond/ Getty Images The most important album of Gucci Mane 's career is scheduled to surface in stores December 8. For Gucci, the title The State vs. Radric Davis took on an all-too-real relevance a couple of weeks ago when the rapper was sent to jail for 12 months...
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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
November 21, 1924—Three Hawaiian guitarists played at the funeral of Hollywood player Thomas Ince , but that was only the latest of the bizarre, inexplicable events surrounding his hurried departure a few days before from the yacht of William Randolph Hearst . The incident sparked a three-quarters-of-a-century scandal and mystery involving the tabloid publisher; his mistress, silent-film comedienne...
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Matsie For the Win! (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
oldhollywood : Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules & Jim (1962, dir. Francois Truffaut) Although the film is named for the men, its animating force is Catherine, a creature both utterly timeless (Jules and Jim first see her visage in a photo of a Greek statue) and forever changing: at different points, she plays the roles of Charlie Chaplin and street tough, vamp, and doting mother. Passionate...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Madikeri: Students of the Opportunity Section of Kodagu Vidyalaya staged a brilliant play during their Annual Day celebrations here on Friday. The audience was “taken around” India along with the protagonist Charlie Chaplin. ...
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Inkydoodles (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Silent comedy when done well is brilliant. Just look at movies by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Silent comedy in cartoon form is a favourite of mine. There are a plenty of cartoonists who do wordless gags but one of my favourites is Sergio Aragones one of the long standing contributing artists to Mad Magazine. His cartoons are lively and carry his wonderful sense of humour effortlessly to the...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Also available: "A painting of Charlie Chaplin done in the hand of Michael Jackson at the age of 9 years old," the acoustic guitar he played on the set of the The Wiz, "chocolate from Jacks...
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Sometimes it's not pretty. (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-sho t . -- Charlie Chaplin
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
If you can believe it, the never before seen film was discovered in a nitrate film can bought for just $5. (Thanks to Jackson for the heads up.)
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Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Time was, if you had 40-50 LPs or so, at least three or four of them would be by artists who could only be classified under "Unclassifiable". You might have some Ivor Cutler (a weedy-voiced Weegie with a wheezing harmonium - er, you probably had to be there), or the recently Baker-endorsed Sir Henry at Rawlinson End , or Stanley Unwin increasingrave your word poweribold, or a rake-thin Manc...
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<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) : Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her paternal grandparents, originally named Blumenthal, as well as her maternal grandparents, originally named Griewski, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. ... She was chosen by Charlie Chaplin...
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