feuillade.DeleteThis@aol.com (Feuillade) wrote in message news:<20041115234132.21640.00000673.DeleteThis@mb-m12.aol.com>...
> I briefly checked out the new book "Hollywood Picks the Classics" to see which
> current Hollywood celebrities chose Chaplin films for their top-ten.
>
> Not many, I'm afraid.
Directors polled in the _Sight and Sound_ survey have tended to do
well by
Chaplin--better than critics. I doubt that they would show such
interest in
an inept director who didn't understand his medium.
As for celebrity opinions, I'm not sure what they mean. Three of the
five
liked _Dictator_, a film most of us consider uneven. And two very good
actors liked it, yet some of us think that Chaplin was never as
outstanding in
speaking roles as in pantomime.
Connie K.
> But these are the ones who did:
>
> Elizabeth Banks (anyone know who she is?) chose "The Gold Rush."
>
> Michael Caine, John Cleese and Fayard Nicholas all chose "The Great Dictator."
>
> And Christa Miller (from "The Drew Carey Show") chose "Modern Times."
>
> No one chose "City Lights." That's really unbelievable.
>
>
> Tom Moran
>
> "If exchange of ideas and contact with intelligent
> minds is what one wants, one had better stay in
> New York."
> -- W.H. Auden >> Stay informed about: Hollywood Picks the Classics: Who Picked Chaplin? 
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