BECAUSE EVERYONE NEEDS A LAUGH THANKS TO THE LITTLE TRAMP. 1/8: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman (Author)
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🗓️ 12 May 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Scott-Eyman/dp/1982176350
Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War II, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold.
Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the 1940s, he was the subject of a paternity suit, which he lost, despite blood tests that proved he was not the father. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the US after a trip abroad, he settled in Switzerland and made his last two films in London.
In Charlie Chaplin vs. America, Scott Eyman explores the life and times of the movie genius who brought us such masterpieces as City Lights and Modern Times. “One of the finest surveys of the man and the artist ever written” (Leonard Maltin) this book is “a sobering account of cancel culture in action.” (The Economist)
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| 0:42.0 | It is the late 19th century Christmas Day. |
| 0:46.0 | A young child proceeds to the dining hall to receive his Christmas gift at the Lambeth workhouse, |
| 0:55.0 | workshop, workhouse. These are mostly young men, young boys who have no parents |
| 1:01.0 | or the parents are not responsible for them at the moment and |
| 1:03.7 | their wards of the state momentarily. One of those small children is Charlie |
| 1:07.7 | Chaplin. This scene plays again and again throughout the book in my mind |
| 1:12.2 | Charlie Chaplin versus America when |
| 1:14.9 | art, sex and politics collided. Scott Eimen is the author I welcome Scott now. |
| 1:20.1 | This scene Scott I return again and again to it in your careful analysis of |
| 1:26.8 | Charlie Chaplin's spectacular career. He tells the story I imagine more than once. |
| 1:32.1 | He also uses the image of oranges on |
| 1:34.9 | Christmas to his own children when they are not appreciative of the wealth that they |
| 1:41.1 | grew up in. What happened to Charlie Chaplin I imagine of the Scott. Good day to you, John. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:53.9 | The story was told to me by Chaplin's son, Sydney. |
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