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    Dec 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. American Cinematheque gets into the holiday spirit

    The American Cinematheque's Egyptian and Aero theaters are getting into the holiday spirit with two festive programs: "Christmas With Charlie Chaplin" and "Holiday Spirit on the Big Screen."
    The American Cinematheque's Egyptian and Aero theaters are getting into the holiday spirit with two festive programs: "Christmas With Charlie Chaplin" and "Holiday Spirit on the Big Screen." Chaplin and Paulette Goddard star in his last silent film, the...

    Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Bing Crosby, Sylvester Stallone, Holidays, Brian Dennehy

    2. Sep 2, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

    As far back as Louis Lumière's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.¶There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires (Charlie Chaplin's 1936 "Modern Times"), angry explorations of the hardships of unemployment (John Ford's 1940 "The Grapes of Wrath") and the dangers of certain occupations (Ford's 1941 "How Green Was My Valley" about miners) or political statements such as 1979's "Norma Rae," which examined the struggle to unionize a factory. More recent films such as 1999's "Office Space" have skewered the world of bored computer drones. ¶ So in honor of Labor Day, here are some of the best Hollywood films about the workplace, whether it's an office, a farm — or even the circus.
    As far back as Louis Lumière's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.¶There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

    Tags: John Ford, John Raitt, King Vidor, The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Companies and Corporations

    3. Sep 29, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Mo Rothman dies at 92; found new audience for Chaplin

    Mo Rothman, a veteran studio executive who helped pave the way for Charlie Chaplin to end an acrimonious, two-decade exile from the United States and returned some of the filmmaker's classic movies to American screens, died Sept. 15 in Los Angeles. He was 92. Rothman had Parkinson's disease, his family said.
    Mo Rothman, a veteran studio executive who helped pave the way for Charlie Chaplin to end an acrimonious, two-decade exile from the United States and returned some of the filmmaker's classic movies to American screens, died Sept. 15 in Los Angeles. He was...

    Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Artists, Lincoln Center, England, Politics

    4. Nov 27, 2012 |Story| HB Independent

  4. City Lights: Turning on new 'Lights'

    This column has moved but will not require a new name. "City Lights" — I originally thought of that title as a play on the city editor position. Now, as I move into the features editor spot, I'm reminded of from where else the inspiration came....

    Tags: Politics, Gene Siskel, Entertainment, Movies, Carnegie Hall

    5. Sep 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Simplistic 'Chaplin' silences the magic of the Little Tramp

    BROADWAY REVIEW: "Chaplin" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre ... You might think that the trickiest and most daunting thing about a stage musical about Chaplin would be trying to replicate the actual, famous comedy sequences.
    At the crucial emotional juncture of "Chaplin," the new musical about the Englishman who became, for a good while, the most famous movie star in the world, the character Charlie Chaplin sings of the pain that flows from declining interest in his work....

    Tags: Music Theater, Hedda Hopper, Theater, Entertainment, Broadway Theater

    6. Feb 9, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Chaplin films coming to the Charles Theatre

    The most towering figure in Hollywood history wore ill-fitting clothes, including shoes several sizes too big, and never said a word. Beginning Saturday, he'll be spending a year at Baltimore's <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/station-north/home/art-house/the-charles-theatre-baltimore-movie-theater">Charles Theatre</a>.
    The most towering figure in Hollywood history wore ill-fitting clothes, including shoes several sizes too big, and never said a word. Beginning Saturday, he'll be spending a year at Baltimore's Charles Theatre. Charlie Chaplin, a British expatriate who...

    Tags: Sunnyside (Staten Island, New York), The Great Dictator (movie), Sunnyside (Queens, New York), Charles Street, Entertainment

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