Friday 27 September 2013

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Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among most famous Pablo Picasso paintings are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. Picasso creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including oil paintings, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people - though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience - meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work, at least in reproduction - was in the tens, possibly hundreds, of millions. He and his work were the subjects of unending analysis, gossip, dislike, adoration and rumor.

He was a superstitious, sarcastic man, sometimes rotten to his children, often beastly to his women. He had contempt for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary. Whole cultural industries derived from his much mythologized virility. He was the Minotaur in a canvas-and-paper labyrinth of his own construction.

He was also politically lucky. Though to Nazis his work was the epitome of "degenerate art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it, even in cold war America.

No painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. And it is quite possible that none ever will be again, now that the mandate to set forth social meaning, to articulate myth and generate widely memorable images has been so largely transferred from Picasso paintings and sculpture to other media: photography, movies, television. Though Marcel Duchamp, that cunning old fox of conceptual irony, has certainly had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso, the Spaniard was the last great beneficiary of the belief that the language of paintings and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees. And he was the first artist to enjoy the obsessive attention of mass media. He stood at the intersection of these two worlds. If that had not been so, his restless changes of style, his constant pushing of the envelope, would not have created such controversy - and thus such celebrity.

In today's art world, a place without living culture heroes, you can't even imagine such a protean monster arising. His output was vast. This is not a virtue in itself - only a few paintings by Vermeer survive, and fewer still by the brothers Van Eyck, but they are as firmly lodged in history as Picasso ever was or will be. Still, Picasso paintings and sculptures filled the world, and he left permanent marks on every discipline he entered. His work expanded fractally, one image breeding new clusters of others, right up to his death.

Moreover, he was the artist with whom virtually every other artist had to reckon, and there was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn't inspire, contribute to or - in the case of Cubism, which, in one of art history's great collaborations, he co-invented with Georges Braque - beget. The exception, since Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life, was abstract art; but even there his handprints lay everywhere - one obvious example being his effect on the early work of American Abstract Expressionist painters, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, among others.

Much of the story of modern sculpture is bound up with welding and assembling images from sheet metal, rather than modeling in clay, casting in bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage - the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface - became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some of the Mexican work of Diego Rivera.

Picasso was regarded as a boy genius, but if he had died before 1906, his 25th year, his mark on 20th century art would have been slight. The so-called Blue and Rose periods, with their wistful etiolated figures of beggars and circus folk, are not, despite their great popularity, much more than pendants to late 19th century Symbolism. It was the experience of modernity that created his modernism, and that happened in Paris. There, mass production and reproduction had come to the forefront of ordinary life: newspapers, printed labels, the overlay of posters on walls - the dizzily intense public life of signs, simultaneous, high-speed and layered. This was the cityscape of Cubism.   Streisand starred in For Pete's Sake and Funny Lady before her 1976 movie A Star Is Born. The movie and her rendition of the theme song, "Evergreen," earned her a second Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. The film was one of the highest moneymakers that year. Some critics, however, believed Streisand was executing too much control, as she was listed in the credits as not only the star, executive producer, and cosongwriter, but also as the wardrobe consultant and the designer of "musical concepts."

Streisand would take yet another leap in her creative life when she decided to direct, produce, and star in Yentl in 1983. Filmed in Eastern Europe, Yentl was the story of a woman masquerading as a man to get orthodox Jewish religious education. The film earned more than $35 million, but it would be four years before she appeared in another film.

Streisand's role in Nuts (1987), opposite Richard Dreyfuss (1947–), is the story of a woman who must go through a competency (able to function mentally in a normal way) hearing to determine if she is sane enough to stand trial for manslaughter. Most critics disliked the film, which Streisand produced, but some called it her best work ever. The dramatic role prepared her for the tension and emotion that she displayed in her next movie.

In The Prince of Tides (1991) Streisand, opposite Nick Nolte (1940–), not only starred, but directed and coproduced the film. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including the award for best picture. Streisand won a Golden Globe Award for directing.
Top of the charts

In addition to performing in motion pictures and on television throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Streisand continued to release albums. After Funny Girl—Original Broadway Cast Recording there would be over fifty Streisand albums released. Over the years she has recorded duets with performers Barry Gibb (1946–), Bryan Adams, Don Johnson, Neil Diamond (1941–), Kim Carnes, Johnny Mathis, and Michael Crawford.

After receiving a death threat in 1967, Streisand developed stage fright and stopped performing in public concerts. She commented to Susan Price of Ladies Home Journal, "You don't get over stage fright—you just don't perform." However, new friendships seemed to have a positive impact. In the early 1990s she began to grow closer to her mother and became friends with then-President Bill Clinton (1946–) and his wife Hillary (1947–).

Streisand did a world tour in 1994, starting in London, England, and ending in New York City. Her shows were some of the biggest moneymaking concerts of the year.

Streisand released Higher Ground in November of 1997 and it immediately became number one on the Billboard chart. It set a record for the greatest span of time between a performer's first and most recent number one albums—thirty-three years. The first single released from the album, "Tell Him," a duet with Celine Dion (1968–), was immediately a Top 40 hit and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
A lifetime of achievement

Streisand has recorded fifty-four albums and has collected an overwhelming thirtynine gold albums, twenty-five platinum albums, and twelve multi-platinum albums. She was the first person to win an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award. She is also the only person to have won an Academy Award for both acting and songwriting.

Streisand married actor James Brolin in July 1998. The couple divides their time between homes in Malibu and Beverly Hills, California. She has given concerts to help benefit political candidates and charities that benefit social causes such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS; a disease that affects the body's immune system) research. The Streisand Foundation was established in 1992 to help advocate women's rights, civil liberties, and environmental protection.

President Clinton presented Streisand a National Medal of Arts in 2000. She gave what she said were her final live performances in Madison Square Garden in New York City that year.

Streisand won an Emmy in 2001 for her Fox TV special Barbra Streisand: Timeless. At the ceremony she sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" in tribute to the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.

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Wednesday 25 September 2013

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Funny Photos Of Cats Biography 

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A lolcat (pronounced /ˈlɒlkæt/ LOL-kat) is an image combining a photograph of a cat with text intended to contribute humour. The text is often idiosyncratic and grammatically incorrect, and its use in this way is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin".

"Lolcat" is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation for "laugh out loud" (LOL) and the word "cat".[1][2] A synonym for "lolcat" is cat macro, since the images are a type of image macro.[3] Lolcats are commonly designed for photo sharing imageboards and other Internet forums. Similar image macros that do not feature cats are often simply referred to as "lols".[4]
Contents

    1 History
    2 Format
    3 Offshoots and parodies
        3.1 Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat
    4 See also
    5 Notes
    6 References
    7 External links

History
1905 cat postcard by Harry Whittier Frees

As early as the 1870s, British portrait photographer Harry Pointer created a carte de visite series featuring cats posed in various situations. To these he usually added amusing text intended to further enhance their appeal.[5] Other notable early figures include Harry Whittier Frees and (using mounted animals) Walter Potter.[6]

The first recorded use of the term "lolcat" is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan.[7][8][9] The word "Lolcat" is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name "LOLcats.com" was registered on June 14, 2006.[10] Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful.[11] The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'." Ikenburg adds that the images have been "slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they did not become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?"[12] The first image on "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?" was posted on January 11, 2007, and was allegedly from the Something Awful website."[13][14] Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example "probably dates to 2006,"[15] but later corrected himself in a blog post[16] where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of "Caturday" and many of the images now known by a few as "lolcats" in early 2005. The domain name "caturday.com" was registered on April 30, 2005.[citation needed]

The term lolcat gained national media attention in the United States when it was covered by Time, which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]".[17] Entertainment Weekly put them on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Da cutest distractshun of da decaid? Y, lolcats of corse! We can neber haz enuf of deez capshioned pics of cuddlie kittehs."[18] "Lolcat" was also a runner-up under the "Most Creative" category under the American Dialect Society Word of the Year Awards, losing out to "Googlegänger".[19]
Format
A lolcat image using the "I'm in ur..." format

Lolcat is a composite of two words, "lol" and "cat". "Lol" stands for "Laugh out Loud" or "Laughing out Loud"; hence, lolcats are intended to be funny and to include jokes.[20] Lolcats images comprise a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically set in a sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black.[21] The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect. The caption generally acts as a speech balloon encompassing a comment from the cat, or as a description of the depicted scene. The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard English spelling and grammar,[21] featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs, but a tendency to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and grammar".[21][22][23][not in citation given] The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to Internet slang. Frequently, lolcat captions take the form of phrasal templates.[23] Some phrases have a known source, usually a well-known Internet meme, such as All your base are belong to us or Do not want,[24] while others don't. The language of lolcats has also been likened to baby talk.[25]

Common themes include jokes of the form "Im in ur [noun], [verb]-ing ur [related noun]."[26] Many lolcat images capture cats performing characteristically human actions or appearing to use modern technology, such as computers.[citation needed]

There are several well-known lolcat images and single-word captions that have spawned many variations and imitations, including "Ceiling Cat" (see below). Others include Fail (a cat with a slice of processed cheese on its face)[27] and "I Can Has Cheezburger" (a portrait of a blue British Shorthair).[28]
Offshoots and parodies

Variations on the lolcat concept include captioning photos of other animals in a similar style (e.g. loldogs for dogs, etc.).

The syntax of lolcat captions was used as the basis for LOLCODE, an esoteric programming language with interpreters and compilers available in .NET Framework, Perl, etc.[1]
Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat

"Ceiling Cat" is a character spawned by the meme. The original image was an image macro with a picture of a cat looking out of a hole in a ceiling, captioned "Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate." [29] There followed numerous image macros with the format "Ceiling Cat is watching you [verb ending in/rhyming with -ate]" with Ceiling Cat superimposed in the upper left hand corner of an image macro depicting the appropriate action. The underlying theme is that the cat is looking down on you, almost in a form of judgement. The character is also featured in a project to translate the Bible to lolspeak. "Ceiling Cat" and the corresponding "Basement Cat" (a black cat who lives in the basement) represent good and evil (sometimes God and Satan) in the lolcat universe.[30][31][32]
See also

    Cats That Look Like Hitler – a type of LOLcat specifically made to look like Hitler
    Cute cat theory of digital activism
    Laugh-Out-Loud Cats – a comic inspired by lolspeak and other Internet humor
    List of Internet phenomena
    O RLY? – a related meme featuring image macros
    Oolong (rabbit) – a bunny trained to balance objects on its head. Famous for balancing pancakes and waffles, it has become a meme similar to Lolcats.
    Padonki – a Russian Internet subculture with slang similar in format to lolspeak
    LOLCODE - an esoteric programming language

Notes

    ^ Jump up to: a b Dwight Silverman (2007-06-06). "Web photo phenomenon centers on felines, poor spelling". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
    Jump up ^ Rutkoff, Aaron (2007-08-25). "With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
    Jump up ^ Randy A. Salas (2007-06-09). "Laugh at cat humor". Akron Beacon Journal, Star Tribune. "At first, they were called cat macros, but now go mostly by the name lolcats." |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
    Jump up ^ "LOL builder: Make your own lols". Cheezburger.com. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ "Harry Pointer's Brighton Cats". Photohistory-sussex.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ Cyriaque Lamar (2012-04-09). "Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats". Retrieved 2012-07-07.
    Jump up ^ Langton, Jerry (2007-09-22). "Funny how `stupid' site is addictive". The Star. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
    Jump up ^ "Iz not cats everywhere? Online trend spreads across campus".[dead link]
    Jump up ^ smith, david. "the unseen face behind today’s counterculture". Retrieved 2008-08-25.
    Jump up ^ Contact Us. "WHOIS domain registration information results for lolcats.com from". Network Solutions. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ Tom Whitwell (May 12, 2007). "Microtrends: LOLcats". The Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
    Jump up ^ "Lolcats' demented captions create a new Web language," Tamara Ikenberg, The News Journal, July 9, 2007
    Jump up ^ "About « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can Has Cheezburger?". Icanhascheezburger.com. 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ "Original Picture, cheezburger, ICANHASCHEEZBURGER, September 26, 2007 icanhascheezburger.com
    Jump up ^ Lev Grossman (2007-07-12). "Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy". Time (magazine). Retrieved 2007-07-16. "this has also spawned the digg dog which is part of the popular site titled digg.com"
    Jump up ^ Lev Grossman (July 16, 2007). "Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong". TIME. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
    Jump up ^ Grossman, Lev (2007-07-12). "Cashing in on Cute Cats". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2007-07-12. Partial scan of the print edition: fcrunk.wellimean.com
    Jump up ^ Geier, Thom, et al. (December 11, 2009). "The 100 Greatest Movies, TV shows, Albums, Books, Characters, Scenes, Episodes, Songs, Dresses, Music Videos, and Trends that entertained us over the past 10 Years". Entertainment Weekly. (1079/1080):74-84
    Jump up ^ "Americandialect.org" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ retrothing.com. "1950's Proto-LOLcats".
    ^ Jump up to: a b c Anil Dash (2007-04-23). "Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar". Retrieved 2007-05-03.
    Jump up ^ Annalee Newitz (2007-04-27). "I'M IN YR X Y-ING YOUR Z – A Grammar of Lolcats". Table of Malcontents, a Wired blog. Retrieved 2007-04-29. "These images ... usually include a cute cat saying something related to buckets, cheeseburgers, or whatever else with strangely-conjugated verbs."
    ^ Jump up to: a b Mark Liberman (2007-04-25). "Language Log: Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
    Jump up ^ "Top ten Star Wars myths and legends: Do not want". VirginMedia.com. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
    Jump up ^ Svensson, Peter (2008-04-24). "Lolcat site needz ur skillz". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
    Jump up ^ Jay Cridlin (2007-06-01). "This be funny storyz". Tampa Bay Times.
    Jump up ^ Charles Bremner Toulouse Updated 6 minutes ago. "Microtrends: Failure – Times Online". Technology.timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
    Jump up ^ Tozzi, John (July 13, 2007). Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks. Business Week. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
    Jump up ^ "Ceiling cat is watching you...". icanhazcheezburger.com. 2007-01-24. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
    Jump up ^ Amter, Charlie (2007-12-16). "Lolcat Bible Translation Project presents the Gospel according to Fluffy". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
    Jump up ^ Horan, Brianna. "How one hungry 'kitteh' can has the Internet lol". Archived from the original on 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
    Jump up ^ Guzman, Monica. "Time killer: The "lolcat" Bible". Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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Ranging from trashy to tragic to triumphant, the biographies and memoirs in this compilation not only tell the stories of the women who've helped define "celebrity" in the past 100 years, but also provide some pretty entertaining bathroom reads

20 Celebrity Bios You Should Read

1.) No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, by Janice Dickinson
The best thing about Janice's memoir—an account of how she survived an abusive home, became a highly paid model, became a drug addict, and fucked lots of famous guys—is that she's really funny, irreverent, and (edited to be?) lucid. The second best thing about it is how deliciously TMI she is about everything: her binge-and-purge episodes before photo shoots; when she tried to trick Sylvester Stallone into thinking he was the father of her baby when he wasn't; fucking her best friend's (Jerry Hall) boyfriend (Mick Jagger); getting totally fucked up on coke and booze at Stephanie Seymour's bachelorette party until she puked; what a scumbag Bill Cosby is; and describing—in detail—Liam Neeson's penis size. The third best thing about her book is that it caught the attention of Tyra Banks, who then hired Janice as a judge on her new reality show America's Next Top Model, introducing her particular brand of inanity to a new generation, and helping create the second phase of Janice's career, as an arbitrary—yet weirdly reliable—source of inanity.


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2.) Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, by Gerald Clarke
Get Happy is the probably the most comprehensive biography of Judy Garland. It delves into the sad—which have since come to be cliched—consequences of child stardom spurred by stage parents and industry people who are more invested in nurturing a kid's talent than nurturing the kid. Instead of merely giving the salacious details of her life—of which there are plenty—Clarke also investigates the reasons behind the sadness that propelled Garland's addiction, which ultimately led to her death at 47. Also interesting is the investigation of Garland's popularity with gay men, which ties into the book's revelations that her father, Frank Gumm, was homosexual, as well as one of her husbands, Vincente Minnelli. (Additionally, the fact that Liza Minnelli's grandfather and father were gay shines a whole new light onto her marriages to Peter Allen and David Gest.)


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3.) Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor, by C. David Heymann
Like Judy Garland before, and Drew Barrymore since, Elizabeth Taylor grew up in the public eye, didn't have much of a typical childhood, and began self-medicating at a young age. This book focuses mostly on the trashier aspects of her life and career—like the pills, the booze, the marriages, and the fluctuating weight—but is mostly interesting for its account of all of her "firsts" as a celebrity woman: the first to be at once vilified and idolized in the tabloid media as a "husband stealer" (decades before Angelina Jolie); the first to break the glass ceiling on actresses' salaries; and the first to pave the way in celebrity fragrance lines.


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4.) The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown
What's interesting about Tina Brown's account of Princess Diana's life is that she managed to write a compelling book using all of the anecdotes and history that pretty much everyone already knew about our "Queen of Hearts," by approaching the subject matter from a different angle, illuminating how feminism (or a lack thereof) played a role in antiquating the kind of woman Diana Spencer was raised to be (with an emphasis on finishing school, rather than college), and how it contributed to the gilded cage in which she eventually found herself.


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5.) Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, by Stacy A. Cordery
Before Paris Hilton there was Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. A teenager when her father became president, Alice captivated the attention of the media, and was perhaps the first "It Girl" to ever become famous for simply being the daughter of someone famous. She was photographed all the time, trading cards were made with her face on them, and everything she did made headlines, which was a huge taboo, as women of her ilk were to abide by the "three times rule" (in which they were supposed to only appear in newspapers when they were born, married, and dead). What makes Alice's story interesting is that at a time when women were plagued with a bunch of social restrictions, she did whatever the fuck she wanted, without particularly offending anybody in the long run, proving how needless those restrictions were. Instead of a porno, Alice's scandals involved having a pet snake, drinking, smoking in public, partying, riding in cars with men, and gambling at racetracks.


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6.) Mommie Dearest, by Christina Crawford
I highly recommend that anybody who even remotely enjoyed the movie—or has horror stories about their own mothers—read this book. Joan Crawford comes off way worse, breaking down into psychotic episodes about things like Christmas card lists, thank you notes, and, duh, wire hangers, enforcing the rules about these manners with severe beatings.


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7.) I, Tina, by Tina Turner with Kurt Loder
I read this book cover-to-cover in the eight hours that I was sitting in the waiting room of Planned Parenthood before my first abortion. I remember not being able to put it down and sort of forgot my impending surgery as I flipped the pages. Suffice it to say, Ike is a dick.


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8.) Call Me Crazy, by Anne Heche
Anne Heche's acting career was overshadowed by being Ellen DeGeneres' first public girlfriend, a role which was then overshadowed by her seemingly compulsive need to confess that she believed that she was from a fourth dimension, where her name was Celestia. Aside from being bisexual, she said she was also bilingual/fluent in an alien language. Call Me Crazy is a quick, somewhat unbelievable, and often uncomfortable read—not because Heche describes her childhood in a sort of religious cult or the sexual abuse at the hands of her father (who turned out to be gay and died of AIDS, but not before partying regularly at Studio 54 with a teenage Brooke Shields). No, what makes the book uncomfortable is Heche's wording of some of these events, like when she confronted her mother about how she got oral and genital herpes as a child.

    Your baby has welts on her baby-size pussy and you can't put a diaper on her and you don't give a shit enough to trash your fucking beliefs for one goddamn second and taker her to the doctor? Any-fucking-body who might tell you what was wrong with your baby girl's pussy?



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9.) Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion, by Izabella St. James
If you want some trash, this is some trash. Izabella St. James was one of the original "Seven Blondes" in that harem that Hugh Hefner put together in the 1990s, until Holly Madison came in and streamlined the operation prior to Girls Next Door. I'm pretty sure that St. James wrote this all by herself with no ghostwriter because the typos are so egregious that sometimes there are semicolons in the middle of words. Anyway, she's obviously biased about her experience living at the Playboy Mansion—Madison had her ousted after it was discovered that St. James was merely using Hef—and complained about a lot of things, even though she was paid an awful lot of money (an "allowance" which she never invested) per week, on top of extra money for outfits and beauty regimens for special events and unlimited funds for plastic surgery. St. James went to law school, and instead of taking the bar exam, she moved into Hef's place and became one of his paid girlfriends, an experience that left a bad taste in her mouth (but that might have been caused by the baby oil... apparently that's what Hef uses for lube). Also, he would have group sex with the harem one night a week, during which he never wore condoms, and instead used a rag to wipe off his dick between women, always finishing the evening by cumming in Holly Madison's ass. See? Trash. Also, Hef loves Ludacris' "What's Your Fantasy." I read this book over a course of four bowel movements.


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10.) Confessions of a Video Vixen, by Karrine Steffans
While we're on the subject of trash, here's an account of the employment of a video star, which actually was more like hustling blow jobs and ecstasy from famous people. She goes into a lot of detail about rappers and athletes, like who likes to cuddle (Ice-T), who likes drugs (Ja Rule), who wears condoms while getting head (Jay-Z) and who gave her the most cash (Shaq). Frankly, Steffans would've been more likable if she'd been unapologetic about her kissing and telling, but she couched her tale in feigned remorse and redemption that only made her look like an asshole when she continued to be so one-note in her career (more kissing and telling and blow jobs and hustling) after the fanfare of her first book died down. Still, it's a nice little behind-the-scenes snapshot of hip-hop life in the late '90s.


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11.) What Falls Away, by Mia Farrow
This book could also have been titled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen But Were Afraid to Ask Because You Might Not Like His Movies Anymore. Mia Farrow's life pre-Woody is actually incredibly fascinating. She was raised by famous parents as part of Hollywood royalty, became a child actor, hung out with the Maharishi and the Beatles, married Frank Sinatra, married Andre Previn, gave birth to and adopted a bunch of kids, and then started a life with Woody Allen, who eventually betrayed her. While we all know the shit about Woody and Soon-Yi, Mia also goes into detail about how he possibly molested the daughter that the couple adopted together. When her pediatrician learned about it, he was obligated to report the incident to the authorities, which sparked the whole custody battle between Woody and Mia. When Woody lost the legal fight, he actually didn't have anything to do with Mia or her children again, including the kid who is Woody's biological son.


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12.) Elvis & Me, by Priscilla Presley
With so many books published about The King, this one actually has some golden nuggets that aren't available in less biased accounts, like the time that Elvis and Priscilla did acid together. Also, she goes into detail about Scientology, and how the organization works.


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13.) Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, by Dolly Parton
I actually didn't read this book. Instead, I listened to the audio version of it, because Dolly narrates, and I think it only makes the experience more enjoyable, as she occasionally breaks out into song. It also ups the awkward factor of when she talks about her bath time adventures with her siblings and inspecting everyone's genitalia. Additionally, she gives hillbilly makeup tips (burnt matches make good eyeliner), her diet (chew food but don't swallow it), and explains her open marriage with her husband Carl Dean. It's a testament to how fucking likable she is, regardless of what she says.


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14.) Barbra: The Way She Is, by Christopher Andersen
This Barbra Streisand bio—which she hated when it came out—is a rags-to-riches story in which a girl hits the big time based solely on her exceptional talents and determination, rather than her outer beauty. While the book does focus on Babs' obsession with the way she looks and how she's shot and lit, it also details how she's embraced her own beauty, rather than change it with surgery. (And she's particularly fond of her naturally perfect fingernails and ass.) But beyond that, it goes into detail about her many lovers, and her crush on Bill Clinton.


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15.) Audition: A Memoir, by Barbara Walters
Walters opens the book with, "My sister was mentally retarded…" and the rest of the book is impossible to read without hearing her maybe-accent-maybe-speech-impediment voice narrating in your head. Babs has led a really interesting life, beginning with her father winning and losing the family's fortune over and over with his risky nightclubs. (When her family moved to Florida—Al Capone was a neighbor—they lived for a time with a homosexual mobster and his driver/boyfriend.) More interesting than the famous people she's interviewed, or the famous men she slept with, is Barbara's very candid account of her relationship with her sister Jackie, whom she resented for most of her life due to Jackie's disability, and the feelings of guilt she still carries about it to this day.


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16.) Learning to Fly, by Victoria Beckham
The fact that Posh Spice has managed to stay relevant long after the dissolution of the Spice Girls is sort of baffling, but it makes a lot of sense after reading her autobiography. She's super funny and honest and her appeal makes sense when you realize that she has no problem giving people what they want—the juice (her anecdote of the brief time that she dated Corey Haim is worth the read alone). Also included are tons of pictures, the best of which is a cake her mother ordered for her 22nd birthday, which was in the shape of low-fat yogurt and fruit, which she says was "a reference to my eating habits, I think."


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17.) My Face for the World to See, by Liz Renay
Liz Renay was a B-movie actress who sometimes stripped as a way to make ends meet, but eventually discovered that being a girlfriend to rich guys (Joe DiMaggio, Regis Philbin, Cary Grant) was the way to go, at least, for a little while. Her memoir tells the salty story of her life, which involved dating mobster Mickey Cohen, whose trial she testified at, and for which she was subsequently convicted of perjury and served over two years in prison, turning her journey for fame into a destination of infamy. Like other campy icons, John Waters took a shine to her and put her in his film Desperate Living.


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18.) My First Five Husband…And the Ones Who Got Away, By Rue McClanahan
OK, if you love the Golden Girls (and who doesn't?) then this is all you need to know about this book in order to convince you to read it:

    People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern belle from Atlanta—and I'm not from Atlanta!



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19.) Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield, By Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham
Written by two women from her inner-circle, the book chronicles the highs of Dusty's career and the lows of her personal life without getting too icky or intrusive (covering her lesbianism, plastic surgery, mental illness, and addiction). Perhaps because the authors really liked Dusty, and understood her as much as they could, anecdotes that would typically seem sad come off as funny memories of crazy times—literally. (Dusty would frequently check herself into Bellevue Hospital because she viewed it as a free hotel, where people cleaned up after you and made your bed.)

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Charlie Chaplin, considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular "Little Tramp" character; the man with the toothbrush mustache, bowler hat, bamboo cane, and a funny walk. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Walworth, London, England on April 16th, 1889 to Charles and Hannah (Hill) Chaplin, both music hall performers, who were married on June 22nd, 1885. After Charles Sr. separated from Hannah to perform in New York City, Hannah then tried to resurrect her stage career. Unfortunately, her singing voice had a tendency to break at unexpected moments. When this happened, the stage manager spotted young Charlie standing in the wings and led him on stage, where five-year-old Charlie began to sing a popular tune. Charlie and his half-brother, Syd Chaplin (born Sydney Hawkes), spent their lives in and out of charity homes and workhouses between their mother's bouts of insanity. Hannah was committed to Cane Hill Asylum in May of 1903 and lived there until 1921, when Chaplin moved her to California. Chaplin began his official acting career at the age of eight, touring with The Eight Lancashire Lads. At 18 he began touring with Fred Karno's vaudeville troupe, joining them on the troupe's 1910 US tour. He traveled west to California in December 1913 and signed on with Keystone Studios' popular comedy director Mack Sennett, who had seen Chaplin perform on stage in New York. Charlie soon wrote his brother Syd, asking him to become his manager. While at Keystone, Chaplin appeared in and directed 35 films, starring as the Little Tramp in nearly all. In November 1914, he left Keystone and signed on at Essanay, where he made 15 films. In 1916, he signed on at Mutual and made 12 films. In June 1917, Chaplin signed up with First National Studios, after which he built Chaplin Studios. In 1919, he and Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists (UA). Chaplin's life and career was full of scandal and controversy. His first big scandal was during World War I, during which time his loyalty to England, his home country, was questioned. He had never applied for US citizenship, but claimed that he was a "paying visitor" to the United States. Many British citizens called Chaplin a coward and a slacker. This and his other career eccentricities sparked suspicion with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and the House Un-American Activities Council (HUAC), who believed that he was injecting Communist propaganda into his films. Chaplin's later film The Great Dictator (1940), which was his first "talkie", also created a stir. In the film, Chaplin plays a humorous caricature of Adolf Hitler. Some thought the film was poorly done and in bad taste. However, it grossed over $5 million and earned five Academy Award Nominations. Another scandal occurred when Chaplin briefly dated 22-year-old Joan Barry. However, Chaplin's relationship with Barry came to an end in 1942, after a series of harassing actions from her. In May of 1943 Barry returned to inform Chaplin that she was pregnant, and filed a paternity suit, claiming that the unborn child was his. During the 1944 trial, blood tests proved that Chaplin was not the father, but at the time blood tests were inadmissible evidence and he was ordered to pay $75 a week until the child turned 21. Chaplin was also scrutinized for his support in aiding the Russian struggle against the invading Nazis during World War II, and the U.S. government questioned his moral and political views, suspecting him of having Communist ties. For this reason HUAC subpoenaed him in 1947. However, HUAC finally decided that it was no longer necessary for him to appear for testimony. Conversely, when Chaplin and his family traveled to London for the premier of Limelight (1952), he was denied re-entry to the United States. In reality, the government had almost no evidence to prove that he was a threat to national security. He and his wife decided, instead, to settle in Switzerland. Chaplin was married four times and had a total of 11 children. In 1918, he wed Mildred Harris, they had a son together, Norman Spencer Chaplin, who only lived three days. Chaplin and Mildred were divorced in 1920. He married Lita Grey in 1924, who had two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. They were divorced in 1927. In 1936, Chaplin married Paulette Goddard and his final marriage was to Oona O'Neill (Oona Chaplin), daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1943. Oona gave birth to eight children: Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, Victoria Chaplin, Eugene, Jane, Annette-Emilie and Christopher Chaplin. In contrast to many of his boisterous characters, Chaplin was a quiet man who kept to himself a lot. He also had an "un-millionaire" way of living. Even after he had accumulated millions, he continued to live in shabby accommodations. In 1921, Chaplin was decorated by the French government for his outstanding work as a filmmaker, and was elevated to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1952. In 1972, he was honored with an Academy Award for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of the century." He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 Queen's Honours List for his services to entertainment. Chaplin's other works included musical scores he composed for many of his films. He also authored two autobiographical books, "My Autobiography" in 1964 and its companion volume, "My Life in Pictures" in 1974. Chaplin died of natural causes on December 25, 1977 at his home in Switzerland. In 1978, Chaplin's corpse was stolen from its grave and was not recovered for three months; he was re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement. Charlie Chaplin was considered one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of American cinema, whose movies were and still are popular throughout the world, and have even gained notoriety as time progresses. His films show, through the Little Tramp's positive outlook on life in a world full of chaos, that the human spirit has and always will remain the same.
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Spouse
Oona Chaplin     (16 June 1943 - 25 December 1977) (his death) 8 children
Paulette Goddard     (1 June 1936 - 4 June 1942) (divorced)
Lita Grey     (26 November 1924 - 25 August 1927) (divorced) 2 children
Mildred Harris     (23 October 1918 - 4 April 1921) (divorced) 1 child

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A tramp with toothbrush mustache, undersized bowler hat and bamboo cane who struggled to survive while keeping his dignity in a world with great social injustice.

Highly descriptive facial expressions

Stories often reflect his liberal political beliefs

Comedy with a deep undercurrent of pathos

On-screen and off-screen, favored the company of much younger women, who were often innocent if troubled

Trivia

Destroyed the original negative of The Sea Gull (1933) before a number of witnesses. The film never saw release, possibly because he was dismayed by the poor performance of his lead actress Edna Purviance.

Grandfather of Dolores Chaplin, Carmen Chaplin and Kiera Chaplin.

Long after becoming a millionaire, he continued to live in a shabby hotel room, and kept his studio checks in a trunk for months.

He thought his period with Mutual was the most consistently pleasant period in his career, although he felt that the plots of the films were too formualic for his taste.

Ranked #79 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

He was 29 years old when he wed Mildred Harris; she was 17.

He was 35 years old when he wed Lita Grey; Lita was 16.

He was 47 years old when he wed Paulette Goddard; Paulette was 26.

He was 54 years old when he wed Oona O'Neill (Oona Chaplin); Oona was 17.

On 3 March 1978, his dead body was stolen from the Corsier-Sur-Vevey cemetery. It took until 18 May when the police found it.

His Beverly Hills residence was known as "Breakaway House". Designed by Chaplin himself and built by studio carpenters, it began falling to bits over the years, much to the amusement of visitors. Built on Summit Drive in the Pickfair neighborhood, the house boasted a pipe organ Chaplin continually used to entertain his guests in the great hall; he also screened his films there. His tennis court was a hive of activity; even the elusive Greta Garbo was a frequent player. He seems to have been an inspiring host; many of his guests joined in with his antics, and reflected that they had never been so funny before or since -- it was the influence of Chaplin.

Half-brother of Syd Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden.

Father of Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin with Lita Grey.

First wife, Mildred Harris was the mother of his first child, a son named Norman Spencer (born July 7, 1919). The baby, who was nicknamed "The Little Mouse," was born with severe disabilities and lived only three days.

Father, with Oona Chaplin, of Geraldine Chaplin (born August 1, 1944), Michael Chaplin (born March 7, 1946) Josephine Chaplin (born March 28, 1949), Victoria Chaplin (born May 19, 1951), Eugene Chaplin (born August 23, 1953), Jane Chaplin (born May 23, 1957), Annette Emily Chaplin (born December 3 1959) and Christopher Chaplin (born July 8, 1962).

He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Council (HUAC) in September of 1947, but his appearance was postponed three times, and he never appeared. He sent HUAC a telegram stating "I am not a Communist, neither have I ever joined any political party or organization in my life". HUAC determined that it was no longer needed for him to appear.

In her book, "Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin", Joyce Milton asserts that Vladimir Nabokov's controversial classic, "Lolita", was inspired by Chaplin's relationship with Lita Grey. On the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's birth, celebrations were held in Corsier and Vevey, Switzerland, where he last lived. For the occasion, 100 children from the region performed a choreography dressed up as little tramps.

Interred at Corsier-Sur-Vevey Cemetery, Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland.

A much-repeated story claims that he once entered a Charlie Chaplin-look-a-like-contest and finished third! In some versions of the story, he came in second.

Stan Laurel was his understudy on the English stage.

When both Stan Laurel and Chaplin moved to America they shared a room in a boarding house.

Cooking was not allowed in the boarding house where Stan Laurel and Chaplin stayed, so he would play the violin to cover up the sound of Laurel frying up food on a hot plate.

Invented his tramp costume with the help of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's pants. Arbuckle's father-in-law's derby, Chester Conklin's cutaway, Ford Sterling's size-14 shoes, and some crepe paper belonging to Mack Swain (which became the tramp's mustache). The only item that actually belonged to Chaplin was the whangee cane.

His bowler and cane was sold for $150,000 in 1987.

He was the first actor to appear on the cover of "Time" magazine, (July 6, 1925).

He was also the first actor to have a comic strip about him; Ed Carey's 1916 strip, "Pa's Imported Son-in-Law", detailed the adventures of Chaplin.

After his body was recovered from grave robbers, Chaplin was reburied in a vault surrounded by cement.

Pictured (as Charlie Chaplin) on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops.

Pictured on one of fifteen 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the "Celebrate the Century" series, issued 3 February 1998, celebrating the 1910s.

In Spain, he had a different dubbing actor in each of his sound films. They were: Ricardo Solans for The Great Dictator (1940), Félix Acaso for Limelight (1952) and Joaquín Díaz for A King in New York (1957). The dubbing actor of Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is, at this time, unknown.

Father-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée.

Son-in-law of Eugene O'Neill.

Grandfather of James Thiérrée.

Most people (now and during his lifetime) believe that Chaplin had brown eyes because they had only seen him in black and white with black eye makeup on. It fact they were very blue. Chaplin remarked in his autobiography that people meeting him for the first time were always struck by his blue eyes. And his future wife Oona Chaplin wrote "Just met Charlie Chaplin. What blue eyes he has!" to a girlhood friend in 1942.

Was an accomplished musician who, in his later years, often reissued his silent films with scores he had composed himself.

His handprints, footprints and signature were immortalized in cement at Grauman's (now Mann's) Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, but after his fall from grace with the Americans because of his political views, the section of cement was removed from public view. It cannot be located and is now feared lost.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 10, 1972 because of his political views.

His mother, Hannah Smith Chaplin, was Romanichal (English Gypsy).

Grandfather of Aurélia Thiérrée.

Although Adolf Hitler was not at all a fan - in fact he had been misinformed that Charlie was Jewish, and therefore despised him - he was also well aware of how beloved Charlie was throughout the world at that time, and that was the reason he grew the Chaplin moustache: he thought it would endear him to the people. (Source: The Tramp and the Dictator)

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 99-102. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

As a child, he was confined to a bed for weeks due to a serious illness. At night, his mother would sit at the window and act out what was going on outside. This was a major reason Chaplin became a comedian.

When Chaplin arrived in the United States with the Fred Karno troupe on October 2, 1912, in his second trip to America, according to Ellis Island immigration records he had $45 in his pocket. He listed his half brother Sydney Chaplin, as his next of kin, even though his mother was still alive. Sailing with him was fellow Karno troupe member Arthur Stanley Jefferson--later to be known as Stan Laurel.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 115-124. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Did not receive screen credit on the many comedies he made for Keystone in 1914-1915, as it was studio policy not to credit its actors (any Keystone film that credits Chaplin is a reissue print). His first screen credit appeared on His New Job (1915), his first film for Essanay.

Called Battleship Potemkin (1925) his favorite movie.

He was voted the 9th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Is mentioned in the song called "Facts of Life" from 2004.

Was 73 years old when his youngest son, Christopher, was born.

Received an Honorary Oscar the The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972) (TV). He appeared on stage blowing kisses to the Hollywood audience with tears running down his face while he received a long standing ovation. Ironically, he won another Oscar the following year.

He and Buster Keaton had an interesting relationship. Long considered rivals but always having avoided commenting about each other in the press, Chaplin hired Keaton for a part in Limelight (1952). Keaton, who was flat broke at the time, went into a career decline after having been signed by MGM in 1928, as the studio would not let him improvise in any of his films nor allow him any writing or directorial input, and he was eventually reduced to writing gags - often uncredited - for other comedians' films. Chaplin, at this point, felt sorry for Keaton due to his hard luck, but Keaton recognized that, despite Charlie's better fortune and far greater wealth, Chaplin was (strangely) the more depressed of the two. In one scene in Limelight, Chaplin's character was dying. While the camera was fading away, Keaton was muttering to Chaplin without moving his lips, "That's it, good, wait, don't move, wait, good, we're through." In his autobiography Keaton called Chaplin "the greatest silent comedian of all time."

At the Golden Camera Awards 2005 in Berlin, Geraldine Chaplin told in a moving speech honoring Jerry Lewis about the last time she saw her father alive. He watched a movie of Lewis on television screaming "He's funny, that bastard!".

Named the #10 Greatest Actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends list by the American Film Institute.

In all his years of living and working in the United States, he never became a United States citizen.

He was the uncle of Spencer Dryden, drummer for the 1960s rock band Jefferson Airplane.

Founder of United Artists along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.

Profiled in in J.A. Aberdeen's "Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers". Palos Verdes Estates, CA: Cobblestone Entertainment.

His performance as The Tramp in City Lights (1931) is ranked #44 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Is portrayed in "Sesame Street" (1969) skits by Linda Bove (Linda) and Sonia Manzano (Maria).

His performance as The Little Tramp in City Lights (1931) and a slew of other pictures is ranked #24 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Composed about 500 melodies, including "Smile" and "This Is My Song".

Up until his last few movies, he never shot with a working script. He would start with a story in his mind and constantly retool it, often shooting hours of scenes that wouldn't make the final cut until he was satisfied. He spent his nights during filming, critiquing the rushes with his assistant directors. Consequently compared to the major studio's films, he spent months/years and excessive amounts of money on his productions. He often said though he would not release any of his films until he was 100% satisfied with the result.

After finishing his last film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) in 1966, he composed the music to many of his silent movies, among them The Circus (1928) in 1968, The Kid (1921) in 1971 and A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) in 1976.

His trademark character The Tramp appeared in about 70 movies, shorts and features, during a period of 26 years, from the one-reeler Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) to his triumphant feature The Great Dictator (1940).

Charlie loved to play tennis, but described golf as "a game I can't stand".

Marlon Brando played the starring role in Chaplin's last movie A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) in 1966. While Brando had always greatly admired Chaplin's work and looked upon him as "probably the most talented man the [movie] medium has ever produced", the two superstars did not get along during the shooting. In his autobiography, Brando described Chaplin as "probably the most sadistic man I'd ever met." Chaplin, on his side, said that working with Brando simply was "impossible".

His film The Great Dictator (1940) was banned in Germany.

Was once working as a butler in England, a job he enjoyed. He was fired after he was caught playing a trumpet he had found in his employer's attic.

His mother was so poor, she was once forced to pawn her son's spare clothes. She was also in and out of mental hospitals throughout her life.

When Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was unable to find work after his infamous trial, Chaplin supported him out of his own pocket.

First actor to be nominated for a single Academy Award (Best Actor) for a film in which he was credited as portraying two different characters. In The Great Dictator (1940), he played a Jewish barber--a variation of his Little Tramp character--and Adenoid Hynkel, his version of Adolf Hitler.

Was an agnostic who believed in some sort of "Supreme Force", according to his son Charles Chaplin Jr.'s autobiography, "My Father, Charlie Chaplin".

His father, with whom he lived for only a brief period of time in his childhood while his mother was committed to a mental asylum, died as the result of alcohol abuse at 37, when Charlie was 12.

The fact that neither City Lights (1931) nor Modern Times (1936), two of Chaplin's most beloved and acclaimed movies, were nominated for a single Academy Award has puzzled many. One explanation could be that Chaplin expressed disdain for the Academy Awards early on; according to his son Charles Chaplin Jr., for a time Chaplin even used the Honorary Award he won in 1929 as a doorstop. Apparently his view on the Awards changed with time, however, as he accepted and seemed touched by his second Honorary Award in 1972.

According to his daughter Geraldine Chaplin, in the last years of his life Chaplin began to worry that he might not be remembered after his death. This was a major reason why he allowed his trademark character The Little Tramp to appear on several commercial products in the 1970s.

In 1934, Chaplin was scheduled to serve as best man at broadcaster Alistair Cooke's marriage to Ruth Emerson (Ruth Emerson Cooke), but Charlie never showed. Reputedly, he and wife-to-be Paulette Goddard were having such a good time at Southern California's Lake Arrowhead, they decided to stay.

He was born four days before Adolf Hitler.

The last movie he saw (and very much enjoyed) was Rocky (1976).

Chaplin remained in remarkably good physical and mental shape for most of his life, still playing tennis regularly well into his seventies and working constantly. However, after the competition of what turned out to be his last film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), his health began to visibly deteriorate.

Cinematic genius that he was, Chaplin never won an Academy Award in an acting category, his only Oscar victory being in the capacity of composer.

He directed and starred in four of the American Film Institute's 100 Funniest Movies: The Gold Rush (1925) at #25, Modern Times (1936) at #33, The Great Dictator (1940) at #37 and City Lights (1931) at #38.

Once played Sherlock Holmes in a one-act play.

While visiting Winston Spencer Churchill in England in 1937, Chaplin found Churchill studying newspapers and looking worried. When Chaplin asked what was disturbing him, Churchill replied, "Germany." Chaplin made some airy remark to try to dismiss the subject, but Churchill replied, "No, no, it's quite serious.".

Was a good friend of Winston Spencer Churchill.

He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 Queen's Honours List for his services to entertainment.

Chaplin's salary quickly rose during the Teens from $150 per week in 1913 for Keystone, $1250 per week at Essanay, and $10,000 per week with plus a $150,000 bonus at Mutual to $150,000 per film in 1918 at First National.

Spent some of his spare time in the tiny village of Waterville on the southern tip of Ireland. There is a life sized statue of Chaplin on the edge of a waterfront park in the village.

As of 2011, he is the only person to receive a twelve minute standing ovation at the Academy Awards when he appeared to accept an honorary award "for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." It is the longest in the history of the Academy Awards.

Great-Uncle of Drunkfux.

Was aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht when Thomas Ince got killed, the subject of "The Cat's Meow".

Although they both came to the United States with Fred Karno's troupe and shared a room together while with the show, Chaplin does not mention Stan Laurel even once in his autobiography
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