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I'd ask him,"Mr. Chaplin, were you ever truly satisfied with your work?"


Deborah

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dzubeg DeleteThis @aol.com (Deborah) wrote in message news:<20030905142731.06073.00000439 DeleteThis @mb-m07.aol.com>...
> I'd ask him,"Mr. Chaplin, were you ever truly satisfied with your work?"
>
>

And when he'd answer "No." would you feel ripped off?
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David Totheroh (dtotheroh@aol.com) writes:
> Shushfilm DeleteThis @yahoo.com (Shush) wrote in message news:<7767154c.0309050645.402727f3 DeleteThis @posting.google.com>...
>> Let's say Chaplin's ghost was to appear before you, and he was willing
>> and able to talk to you. He'll be completely truthful and candid, but
>> you can ask him only *one* question about his life or work.
>>
>> You could ask him whether or not he and Paulette were ever really
>> married, or what his feelings about communism really were, why he
>> didn't mention Rollie in his autobiography, or any other question.
>>
>> What would you ask him?
>>
>>
>>
>> --Shush--
>
> Sorry if this is redundant (just got an "internal server error") but
> here goes:
>
> Please describe in detail the evolution of your creative process as it
> relates to each of your 87 films.


That solves the problem I was having, which was deciding which one of
several hundred questions I'd like to ask.

The only risk in asking this one is that the ghost might be unwilling to
answer a hundred questions in one, and go stalking off, like the ghost
of old Hamlet.

Connie K.
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in article bjcvao$7ng$1@freenet9.carleton.ca, Constance Kuriyama at
do481 RemoveThis @FreeNet.Carleton.CA wrote on 9/6/03 10:43 AM:

> David Totheroh (dtotheroh@aol.com) writes:
>> Shushfilm RemoveThis @yahoo.com (Shush) wrote in message
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>>> Let's say Chaplin's ghost was to appear before you, and he was willing
>>> and able to talk to you. He'll be completely truthful and candid, but
>>> you can ask him only *one* question about his life or work.

>> Please describe in detail the evolution of your creative process as it
>> relates to each of your 87 films.
>
>
> That solves the problem I was having, which was deciding which one of
> several hundred questions I'd like to ask.


Gee, I guess "how was Paulette in the sack?" would be a bad one then, huh?

JN
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David Totheroh (dtotheroh@aol.com) writes:
> dzubeg RemoveThis @aol.com (Deborah) wrote in message news:<20030905142731.06073.00000439 RemoveThis @mb-m07.aol.com>...
>> I'd ask him,"Mr. Chaplin, were you ever truly satisfied with your work?"
>>
>>
>
> And when he'd answer "No." would you feel ripped off?

She might feel vindicated. :-)

But I wonder if she'd get such a categorical answer--unless the
cock was about to crow. It seems to me that while Chaplin was
inclined to tinker with details, there were parts of his films,
such as the ending of _City Lights_, or the dance of the
rolls, that he never touched. He seems to have been completely
satisfied with them. The boxing match in _City Lights_ was
also reputedly one of his favorite sequences, and there are a
number of others that he never meddled with.

Connie K.
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James Neibaur (jneibaur@wi.rr.com) writes:
> in article bjcvao$7ng$1@freenet9.carleton.ca, Constance Kuriyama at
> do481.RemoveThis@FreeNet.Carleton.CA wrote on 9/6/03 10:43 AM:
>
>> David Totheroh (dtotheroh@aol.com) writes:
>>> Shushfilm.RemoveThis@yahoo.com (Shush) wrote in message
>>> news:<7767154c.0309050645.402727f3.RemoveThis@posting.google.com>...
>>>> Let's say Chaplin's ghost was to appear before you, and he was willing
>>>> and able to talk to you. He'll be completely truthful and candid, but
>>>> you can ask him only *one* question about his life or work.
>
>>> Please describe in detail the evolution of your creative process as it
>>> relates to each of your 87 films.
>>
>>
>> That solves the problem I was having, which was deciding which one of
>> several hundred questions I'd like to ask.
>
>
> Gee, I guess "how was Paulette in the sack?" would be a bad one then, huh?
>
> JN

My guess on that one is that she was pretty damned good. Those bra-less
pictures of Paulette that show up on Ebay say a lot about her.

Connie K.
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Shush (Shushfilm@yahoo.com) writes:
> Let's say Chaplin's ghost was to appear before you, and he was willing
> and able to talk to you. He'll be completely truthful and candid, but
> you can ask him only *one* question about his life or work.
>
> You could ask him whether or not he and Paulette were ever really
> married, or what his feelings about communism really were, why he
> didn't mention Rollie in his autobiography, or any other question.
>
> What would you ask him?
>
>
>
> --Shush--

Since this is just a game, I'd ask why he dropped the original
ending of _The Gold Rush_. Now that I know he trimmed the film
to fit into double feature programs, I can see why he chose to
eliminate some of the Georgia/Jack subplot, but I don't
understand why he dropped that brief and charming ending. The
fade out in'42 is more open-ended, but comparatively bland.

I don't accept Georgia Hale's explanation that he cut it because
he no longer loved her, because I dom't believe his feelings
for her, whatever thay were, caused it to be made in the first
place.

Connie K.
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>From: James Neibaur

>Gee, I guess "how was Paulette in the sack?" would be a bad one then, huh?

I've wondered that myself since I first saw THE GHOST BREAKERS at 14.

Richard Carnahan
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James Neibaur jneibaur.DeleteThis@wi.rr.com writes:

> Gee, I guess "how was Paulette in
> the sack?" would be a bad one
> then, huh?

Do you really need to ask?

Isn't that kinda like asking him, "Do you think you're a halfway decent mime?"


Tom Moran

"The people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders...All you have to do is to tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."

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do481.DeleteThis@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Constance Kuriyama) writes:

> James Neibaur (jneibaur@wi.rr.com) writes:

>> Gee, I guess "how was Paulette
>> in the sack?" would be a bad one
>> then, huh?

> My guess on that one is that she
> was pretty damned good. Those
> bra-less pictures of Paulette that
> show up on Ebay say a lot about her.

Arthur Marx in his book "Son of Groucho" writes that when Paulette played
tennis at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, she would do so braless, and the
teenage boys would line up by the dozens along the fence to watch her, um,
serve.


Tom Moran

"The people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders...All you have to do is to tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."

Hermann Goering
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feuillade.TakeThisOut@aol.com wrote on 9/6/03 1:36 PM:

> Do you really need to ask?
>
> Isn't that kinda like asking him, "Do you think you're a halfway decent mime?"

No, I guess I don't need to pretend to ask a guy who has been dead 26 years
anything. But if I am, I'm going to make a joke about it and not take it
seriously.

JN
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James Neibaur jneibaur DeleteThis @wi.rr.com writes:

> Feuillade at feuillade DeleteThis @aol.com wrote:

>> Do you really need to ask?

>> Isn't that kinda like asking him,
>> "Do you think you're a halfway
>> decent mime?"

> No, I guess I don't need to pretend
> to ask a guy who has been dead
> 26 years anything. But if I am, I'm
> going to make a joke about it and
> not take it seriously.

Oh, I don't know.

It's an interesting thought experiment.

I wouldn't mind asking the shade of Edward De Vere, for instance, "Did you
really write the plays that we attribute to William Shake-speare?"

Of course, I already know the answer... :)


Tom Moran

"The people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders...All you have to do is to tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."

Hermann Goering
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Feuillade (feuillade@aol.com) writes:
> do481.RemoveThis@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Constance Kuriyama) writes:
>
>> James Neibaur (jneibaur@wi.rr.com) writes:
>
>>> Gee, I guess "how was Paulette
>>> in the sack?" would be a bad one
>>> then, huh?
>
>> My guess on that one is that she
>> was pretty damned good. Those
>> bra-less pictures of Paulette that
>> show up on Ebay say a lot about her.
>
> Arthur Marx in his book "Son of Groucho" writes that when Paulette played
> tennis at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, she would do so braless, and the
> teenage boys would line up by the dozens along the fence to watch her, um,
> serve.
>
>
> Tom Moran

The pictures confirm Arthur's story. After all, she didn't need one.

Connie K.

> "The people can always be brought to the bidding
> of the leaders...All you have to do is to tell them
> they are being attacked, and denounce the
> pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
> country to danger."
>
> Hermann Goering
--
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