Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Wall-e Chaplin
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Very Chaplinesque. The robot actually had Chaplinesque body motions. For the record, Chaplin was banned from returning to the U.S. after the release of his obscure film "A King in New York", which dealt with a monarch from a made up Euro-duchy who had discovered an invention to replace fossil-fuels with clean, renewable energy. World economic forces (it is inferred) deposed him to the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan--where he stayed with no money. He was invited by an attractive women to a dinner party where the plan was to secretly video him endorsing American consumer products (for commercial TV use) when all he was really doing was being agreeable to this lady friend.
The irony was that when Chaplin was finally invited back into the U.S. to receive a "lifetime achievement" Oscar, the producers rolled the 'credits' right over his acceptance speech.
~ Colgate Palmolive
~ Esso Gasoline
~ Marlboro Cigarettes
etc..
Interesting stuff Troll. Sir Charles was banned at the premier of Limelight, 1953, the height of the Red Scare. He was hated for his politics as well as the many interesting things he did in the dark (and I don't mean in movie theaters). I'll have to see King in NY again to catch that energy reference. How funny is that! I do know that Chaplin confided in someone, maybe Alister Cook, that when he was blowing kisses to the fans in 1972 in LA he was whispering "f*ck you, f*ck you". The bitterness of the McCarthy Era followed almost all those people to their graves.
Steve:
You're right. His visa was revoked after "Limelight". I was confused because the movie "Chaplin" seemed to indicate that J Edgar Hoover became upset due to line--which was actually found in "A King in New York".
