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Off the Record
The comic genius was a serious, brooding man
NEW YOWL Chart* Chaplin wm the mote grtewful Mg poignant of screen comedians but watching Mm these days to hard work, reports AP
The world has become so much more cynical. and Mm-making so much more sophlstlcaird since Chaplin * prime Comedians can't get away with the rm emotion of The KM.' when Chaplin tearfully embraces young Jackie Cne^n. or the aimless storylines of his early short films
The great funnymen of the poslsHent era. from Groucho Marx to Woody Allen to Robin Wllhams have thrived on sheer verbal energy information overload They draw on references to race, religion and pop cahure They re tougher, htpper. sharing the anger and confusion of their. Ians
Chaplin* comedy came from something more baste His best work didn't depend on knowledge of yesterday s headlines or of the latest hit record He made jokes out of (hrtlng with women being yelled al by hi* boss or being trapped In a laundry bln with a pleec of rancid cheese The laughs were at th< expense of himself. and by extension, his audience
A* shown In "Chaplin, the latest film biography from Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborou^i ("Gandhi"), the comic genius was a serious often brooding man in hi* private Me and an obsessive worker on the set If his spirit and Imagination enabled him to find laughter in the most dire of situations, the poverty and loneliness of his childhood made him approach the simplest two-reelers with a near religious sense of purpose
With Robert Downey Jr. In the starring role, the film tracks Chaplin s life from his Dickensian youth fn London Io his emotional appearance at the 1972 Academy Award* ceremony. when he returned to the country that had banished him 20 years earlier for hts left-wing views (Chaplin died tn 1977 at age 88)
The Muppet Movie
NEW YORK. Dec 20 It s 6:15 pm. Lots of kids They wan dcr and whine, squirm and giggle all winter coats and popcorn, report* Al’.
Tell me exactly how much longer.' a blond-haired cutie demands of her father. 1 want you to tell me exactly.'
6:35. The Muppet movie Is five minutes laic. Great. Chairs rock.
Well It s about timet But hold up. Kermit * not really a frog. Michael Caine, jowly and grimacing, to a scary Scrooge. Where's Miss Piggy?
With the dim of the lights and a whoop from the young audience comes the march of the Christmas movie season and the Muppets first feature-length outing since the death of their creator. Jim Henson.
The Muppets doing "A Christmas Carol?" A musical, no less. I mean, they're acting.
Curl-beaked Gonzo narrates as a sincere Charles Dickens, with ever-hungry Rizzo the rat as sidekick and comic relief. The frog is Bob Cratchit. Later. Miss Piggy pop* up as Bob's loving, though short-tempered wife and mom to two froggy sons. Including Tiny Tim. and twin piggy daughters.
C'mon. Why not just make another zany Muppet adventure like the first one. The Muppet Movie" In 1978, or The Great Muppet Caper" in 1981. or The Muppets Take Manhattan* from 1985? They were good.
We wanted to take the Muppets in a new direction, which Is the way my father would have felt." said Brian Henson, who directed The Muppet Christmas Carol" and Is the eldest son in Jim's brood of ftve.
Queen and Princess together in public
LONDON : Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her daughter-in-law Princess Diana appeared in public together on Saturday just over a week after the announcement that IMan* wm separating from the Queen s eldest son Prince Charles, reports Reuter.
The two arrived together at a tiny village church in southern. England to attend the wedding of the son of the Queen's racing manager. Both looked relaxed and they chatted happily with wedding guests “in the rain-soaked churchyard.
But they left tn separate car.
The announcement that Charles and Diana were to separate was made to parliament by Prime Minister John Major earlier this month, ending months of newspapers speculation thal the royal marriage had collapsed
Diana, who plans to continue the life of a royal, attending public functions and supporting charities, has been careful to stress her warm relations with the Queen and Prlnde Philip.
In November, she Issued an unprecedented statement to the press denying reports that she had had bitter disagree-
L ments with her parents-in -law.