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...From Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin to Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, the A-list has dined here....
...Hearst’s Hollywood coterie — the likes of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin — cavorted in its waters....
...They were keen patrons of the arts with the multilingual Sassoon inviting artists, writers and musicians into their circle including John Singer Sargent, Arturo Toscanini and Charlie Chaplin....
...Charlie Chaplin and Liz Taylor are reputed to be among those who have stayed here, but you’re unlikely to see another guest during your stay: privacy is everything....
...The Genesis in Whitechapel was once a music hall that played host to Charlie Chaplin; later came a long stretch as a much-loved East End picturehouse before a tumble into disuse....
...Pip Torrens is a snooty lord, Nick Frost is a criminal mastermind, Ben Chaplin a beetle-browed copper, and Amy Manson is way over the top as the crazed, smudged-make-up killer Maladie....
...Usually I avoid the living statues, the Yodas on sticks and gold-sprayed Chaplins, buskers and bin drummers who populate the plaza, but this time there was nothing to avoid. There were three people....
...He taught swimming to the children of David Niven, Charlie Chaplin and Jean-Paul Belmondo....
...If anyone is to be credited with introducing the little guy to financial equities, it is probably Treasury secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, who recruited entertainers such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford...
...City Lights, the country’s first paperback bookstore, named after the Chaplin film, remains a San Francisco institution, a magnet for the literary community and a place of pilgrimage for book lovers, cultural...
...They inspired the curving frontage of London’s Peter Jones (1936) designed by William Crabtree. The windows of the stores marked changing seasons and changing fashions....
...The Cockney pageboy in the production, the original “Baker Street Irregular”, was the 14-year-old Charlie Chaplin....
...Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge and George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are among the high-profile couples to have sought sanctuary on North Island....
...David Chaplin, director of communications for the Remain camp, is joining the Hill & Knowlton PR group....
...I like Sherlock Junior better than The General, so I’ll say Chaplin. Cardiff Garcia British directors, Carol Reed or David Lean?...
...Charlie Chaplin, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/ Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 In this fine short life, Ackroyd underlines the link between Chaplin’s boyhood sufferings and his success....
...The one who came closest — Brian Williams of NBC news — has been caught repeating a story about travelling in a helicopter struck by a rocket in Iraq 12 years ago. No such thing occurred....
...Shadowlands, starring Mr Hopkins, was a sensitive transposition of William Nicholson’s play about love and tragedy in the life of writer CS Lewis....
...Bookmaker William Hill put Swansea Bay at 2-1, Leicester at 9-4, Hull at 11-4 and Dundee at 7-2. I wish them all luck....
...… Film & Theatre by Rebecca Rose Charlie Chaplin, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/ Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 In this fine short life, Ackroyd underlines the link between Chaplin’s boyhood...
...His corporate paymasters include Rolf Saxon, and William Gaunt now possesses much of the preternatural dignity required for the Hindenburg figure....
...“William Klein + Daido Moriyama” runs at Tate Modern, London SE1, from October 10 to January 20 2013. “William Klein ABC” is published by Tate, £25...
...He tells us, for instance, that Charlie Chaplin was involved in starting American Artists (rather than United Artists), a howler by any standards....
...Pattinson’s increasingly lonely face (it’s as though he’s perpetually hearing the echo of the fatal shot of his too-fast success) reminds me of Chaplin saying he only realised what fame meant the moment...
...… London Boulevard, scripted and directed by ex-Scorsese scenarist William Monahan (The Departed), is better only by its cheeriness....
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