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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
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334.0. "Chaplin" by 12368::michaud (Jeff Michaud, Pathworks for NT) Mon Sep 20 1993 03:36

	Robert Downey Jr. stars as Chaplin.  Tons of cameos playing
	his everything from his wives, directors, J. Egar Hoover, etc.

	This film is based on Chaplin's own autobiography.  It covers
	all the way to when he was a child in England, to his writing
	of the bio in the 60's from his home in Vevey, Switzerland.

	A very good flicker, very good indeed.  My only complaint is
	in the very end when the give an epilog of all the characters.
	In transfering to video the text for the epilogs is too small
	to read for the most part.  If anyone has a transcript of that
	part I'd be interested in it.
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334.1Good rental19280::JACOBSONWed Nov 03 1993 12:115
    We rented this movie last night. It was excellent. Robert Downey
    JR was great as Chaplin. I also thought Kevin Kline was very good as
    Douglas Fairbanks. I agree it is very difficult to read the ending 
    credits. I would give the movie a 4 out of 5.
334.25235::J_TOMAOWith every beat of my heart... Wed Nov 03 1993 12:5223
    Since I read mostly autobios and bios I was looking forward to seeing
    this....I rented it last week sometime and I too enjoyed it very much.
    
    I have a copy of the book it was based on but haven;t gotton around to
    reading it.  I remember most of the complaints the critics have but
    like most movies and just about all non-fiction the critics claimed the
    movie didn;t do him justice and even glossed over some of the more
    tawdry things in his life....Frankly I expected that - I mean it was
    based on CC's autobiography - so puhleaze....
    
    Anyway - yes I loved the cameos and bit parts and I enjoyed trying to
    spot them - Dan Akroyd did play Mack Sennet as a screaming, flaming
    buthole - but hey - how do we know he wasn't really that way.....Kevin
    Kline was *excellent* playing Doug Fairbanks and I'm glad they added
    the part of the book publisher played by .......(drawing a blank here)
    to help ease us through the very short story that covered over 80
    years.
    
    Definitly worth the rental fee  **** out of ***** (I would have liked
    more on his film making and how he created his movies etc but hey, we
    can't have everything) 
    
    Jt
334.3Tony12368::michaudI've having a friend for dinnerWed Nov 03 1993 13:113
>     the part of the book publisher played by .......(drawing a blank here)

	Anthony Hopkins
334.45235::J_TOMAOWith every beat of my heart... Wed Nov 03 1993 13:415
    Of course - Anthony Hopkins - I could picture him and him in his many
    roles including Howards End and Silence of the lambs etc....
    
    Thanks 
    Joyce