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☆ ‘Charlie Chaplin vs. America’ Review: How the Tramp Was Trampled
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Jeremy Mccarter | Scott Eyman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Charlie Chaplin in a scene from the film ‘The Great Dictator’ (1940). A little tramp in a battered bowler hat picks it up and starts waving it, trying to catch the driver’s attention. Grab a Copy Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided By Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster 432 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopThis scene, from “Modern Times” (1936), turned out to have a grimly prophetic quality for Charlie Chaplin, the actor in the hat. After docking in Cherbourg, France, Chaplin declared that he had no political convictions beyond being an individualist who believed in liberty.
Persons: Charlie Chaplin, ’, Scott Eyman Simon, Schuster, Barnes, Chaplin’s, Chaplin, ”, “ Organizations: Politics, Noble, “ Locations: England, U.S, Cherbourg, France
☆ ‘Finale’ Review: Sondheim, Finishing the Hat
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Jeremy Mccarter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In the summer of 2021, I began to write an email to Stephen Sondheim. It was a neither-fish-nor-fowl sort of message: not exactly a question, more an observation, also a note of praise. In other words, precisely the kind of comment that makes the audience-participation portion of onstage conversations so dreadful. (I’d gotten to know Sondheim when he participated in a couple such conversations I’d programmed at the Public Theater. I wish I’d been less anxious about the prospect of wasting his time, of subjecting him to anything that felt like an imposition.
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