This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I'm with Scott Eamman. The book is Charlie Chaplin versus America.

When art, sex, and politics collide. I recommend the book. I picked it up. I didn't know anything.

Now I don't know anything. Plus, I know what Scott has guided me to learn more about, which is early Hollywood.

When men and women invented an art form that

dominates the solar system and will forever, the idea of telling a magical story on a stage

that moves. We're going now to a success of limelight and Charlie Chaplin's decision with his

growing family and his devoted wife, Una,

they're going to travel to London and Europe in order to enjoy the opening of limelight in London

and then tour some with his young family, including Geraldine Chaplin,

who will become a movie star on her own once in the future.

We're looking at, though, days when you needed a visa to come back to the country after leaving it.

And in order to get that, you had to apply for the Immigration and Naturalization

Service, the INS. It's important now to establish that this wouldn't have been the first occasion

that Charlie rushed up against the INS. Remember, the FBI's been tracking him since 22 with nothing.

Hedahopper and Ed Sullivan, whom I will never celebrate again, have been hectoring him

for decades, for unknown reasons of their own, perhaps their own personalities, but for no

evidence whatsoever that Charlie Chaplin did anything wrong.

However, at one point, I believe it's April of 48.

A man named Boyd at the INS interviews Charlie Chaplin, and the INS is now part of the decision-making.

The idea is, if Charlie Chaplin leaves, we won't let him come back.

Whose idea was it, Scott? Who came up with this genius smear?

It appears to have been James McGrinerie.

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