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Sunday, April 16, 1989 Santa Cruz SentlneM-D7 SCREEN 1 At 8:15 ft 11:45 "BILL TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURED "COUSINS', A moment of silence, please! Charlie Chaplin was born 100 years ago England. While they were at sea, the attorney general revoked Chaplin's re-entry permit. Refusing to submit to a humiliating interrogation at the hands of a commie-crazed government, Chaplin settled in Switzerland. rw If SCREEN II FIRST HUM At 8:15 411:30 Lou Diamond Philips in "DISORGANIZED CRIME" At 10:00 Tom Cruise In FAMILY NIGHT THURSDAY ALL SEATS TROOP BEVERLY HILLS Fri. 4 Mon -Thur.

7:00 2:55. 7:00 Co-Feature DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS Fri. Mon -Thur 4:50.8 55 Sat -Sun. 12:50, 4:50, 8:55 NEW YORK STORIES po, Daily: 7:20 -Co-Feature- THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST Daily: 5:10, 9 40 From the Creator of "Stakeout" comes DISORGANIZED CRIME Fri Mon 5 30, 7:30, 9 30 Sal -Sun. 1:30, 3 30, 5:30.

7.30, 9.30 NO PASSES-NO BARGAIN MATINEES NO FAMILY NIGHT DISCOUNT8 Jody Foster In I TTC in) Fn. Mon. -Thur. 7:30 Sat -Sun. 3.15, 7:30 Midler Barbara Herahcy hi Fri.

4 Mon. -Thur. 5: 16, 9:30 12:55, 5:15.9 30 Walt Disney THE RESCUERS Sat 4 Sun ONLY 1:00, 2:45 (Leslie Townes, later known as Bob Hope, was a winner in Cleveland.) Meanwhile, the hits kept coming. The anarchic lunacy and often unabashed nastiness of the early one-and two-reelers Street," "The Rink." "A Dog's slowly gave way to a kinder, gentler Charlie. His pictures, as the opening title for "The Kid" made clear, were now intended to produce "a smile and, perhaps, a tear." There was "The Gold Rush" (1925), the film for which Chaplin said he wished to be remembered; "The Circus" (1928), with its classically poignant final shot of the Tramp on his own, on the road again; "City Lights" (1931), Chaplin's declaration of independence from sound, his public proclamation that the advent of the talkies meant about as much to him as it did to Rin Tin Tin; and "Modern Times" (1936), in which a still-silent Charlie (with the exception of a nonsense ditty he sings) threw a monkey wrench into the Machine Age.

Finally, in 1940. Chaplin let there be sound. "The Great Dictator," his first talkie, was his slapstick slap at Adolf Hitler for the dual audacity of wanting to conquer the world and appropriating the Tramp's mustache. Things got darker for Chaplin after "The Great Dictator." Both in his movies and in real life. On screen he played a wife murderer Verdoux," 1947); a washed-up, alcoholic music-hall clown 1952); and a deposed Ruritanian king at the mercy of American "hospitality" King in New York," 1957).

Offscreen, he played around with too many women (until his happily-ever-after marriage to Oona O'Neill in 1943) and played a dangerous game of tag with increasingly powerful right-wing extremists. His predilection for child brides had always caused something of a scandal, and a drawn-out paternity suit in the mid-'40s didn't help matters. But the American public didn't see red, you might say, until Joseph McCarthy and his cronies told them they should. Suddenly, Chaplin's longstanding and un-apologetic leftist politics made him a target of various witch-hunting groups. The FBI compiled a file on him that eventually weighed in at 1,900 pages.

In 1952, the Chaplins sailed for By ELEANOR RINGEL Cox News Service A moment of silence, please. Charlie Chaplin, who was born 100 years ago today (Sunday), would want it that way. You might say Charlie and the movies were made for each other. No wonder they were born the same year. In 1889, when Charlie was doing double-takes from his London pram, across the Atlantic In Menlo Park, N.J., Thomas Edison was putting the finishing touches on the first motion picture camera.

The Little Tramp wasn't born, so to speak, until several decades later. It was sometime in early February 1914 that a young English actor was told by director Mack Sennett to put together a comic costume. In "My Autobiography," Chaplin later recalled, "I had no idea what makeup to put on. However, on my way to wardrobe, I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I had no idea of the character, but the moment I was dressed, the clothes and makeup made me feel the person he was." Who was that person? The Little Fellow.

Or Chariot (in France). Or simply Charlie, just about everywhere else. An impudent little man with a twitchy mustache and a hyperactive cane who met corners at right angles and romped through a world paved with banana peels and custard pies. He was kind to kids and blind flower girls but merciless with cops, waiters and overweight society matrons. A man of the world (in that his comic universe seemingly knew no limits) and a man of the streets.

The Tramp was, after all, one of the homeless. His admirers included Gandhi, G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, Churchill, Nijlnsky, Jean Renoir, Einstein, Laurence Olivier and even that supposedly humorless revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, who once admitted, "Charlie Chaplin Is the one man in the world 1 want to meet." His detractors Included Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Hedda Hopper and the entire Third Reich, which dismissed him in a circular as "a little Jewish acrobat, as disgusting as he is tedious." Whether or not Chaplin was part Jewish is one of those hard-to-pin rumors that haunt celebrities.

(The same revelation Is being made about Cary Grant in a current sen- 114 arw WL 4M-MM AflOAM MA Mil TODAV 1ST tHOW OTH SCAIEM nn rXToviEJ SCREEN. TODAVI Girl 425-4VM Skin John Rltlcr Ui lit I DEEPLY rem UN II ToBaVI LMn Chances ftttttimWtmmtttf FINAL NIGHT A FILM BY I CLINT EASTWOOD 3 (5 8MWAJE 700 FELLINI'S AMARCORD 9 00. ONCE AT 7.30 mm. CINEMA 427-1711 "DEI'ICIS ONE OK 11 It JIUm.SI KhLAllON.SIIU'b SINCE 'LAST TANGO IN PARIS' -SJ Mervurv Nrws HEAT AND SUNLIGHT NIGHTLY 6 30, 8 20 (4 4 10 SUN I "TWO THUMHS UP" Stskel Ebtrt CHARLES DICKENS' GREATEST NOVEL LITTLE DORRIT JVEE PART I NOBODY'S FAULT SUN THE THUft 7 1 00 SUN PART II LITTLE DORRIT'S STORY MON WED 7 30 .4 4 IS SUN SEPARATE ADMISSION FOR EACH 3 HR. FILM HIIAKIOUS.

WICKKD COMU)Y. "-boston Glut A BITING ENGLISH COMEDY OF MANNERS WE THINK THE WORLD Of YOU NIGHTLY 6 50. fl 35 IS. 3 10 5 00 SUN ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEST FOREIGN FILM PELLE THE CONQUERED NIGHTLY 7.00. 9.30 IS 2 00.

4.30 SUN TORCH SONG TRILOGY NIGHTLY 6 50, 9 00 14 2: 10. 4 20 SUN) Vfcunrtnc WOMEN ON THB VIROB OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ONCE NIGHTLY 10.15I& 1.1SSUN.) NICKELODEON' Lincoln ft CaOo. The Associated Press The Gold future." That future was nearer than the boy actor or his admirer might've imagined. Barely 10 years later, Chaplin had signed with the foremost comic movie-maker of the day, Mack Sennett of Keystone Kops fame. His first film for Sennett was released that fateful February in 1914.

By January 1915, he'd become an international star, having signed a contract at a second studio (Essanay) for 10 times his previous salary. By 1917, he'd signed his first million-dollar contract and was, without question, the best-known and best-loved figure in the entire world. There were Charlie Chaplin dolls, Charlie Chaplin wind up toys, Charlie Chaplin watches, Charlie Chaplin Squirt Rings. You could even send away for a Charlie Chaplin Outfit (a mustache, an imitation gold tooth and a wad of fake money), which must've been handy for the thousands of Charlie Chaplin imitators who entered the hundreds of Charlie Chaplin look-alike contests across the country. Five(TOobrVithoutaplan are out to rob one bank with lots of cash.

Sorviiafsthehokl-Dp? Disorganized Crime From the Creators of 'Stakeout' ill' DAILY DINNER SPECIALS ffclQl fl 4 i SI) NOW SHOWING! Sin. 1 :30. 3:30, 5:30, 7:30. 9:30 5:30. 7:30, 9:30 EARLY RISERS LUNCH DINNER tram SANTA CRUZ aT at SUN.

8 AM 100 AM mm 4 PM Daily 4:0 PM Daily AFFORDABLE FAMILY DINING IN A CASUAL ELEGANT SETTING 429-9711 Or Block EaatolOcaanitrwi Charlie Chaplin in the 1925 film sationalistic biography.) What is known about his background is that his childhood was Dickensian in its wretchedness and poverty. His father, a music-hall entertainer, deserted the family while Charlie was still a baby and died of alcoholism at 37. His mother, also a vaudevillian, struggled to support Charlie and his half-brother, Sydney, on her own, but she spent most of her life in and out of mental institutions. Consequently, the boys divided their formative years among boarding schools, orphanages and the streets. But something of his absentee parents' show-biz bug somehow rubbed off.

At 14, Chaplin joined a theatrical troupe, making his debut as Sammy the newsboy in a long-forgotten melodrama, "Jim." He even got favorable notices. An anonymous reviewer for the Topical Times wrote, with understated prescience, "Sammy was made vastly amusing by Master Charles Chaplin, a bright and vigorous child actor. I have never heard of the boy before, but I hope to hear great things of him in the near Come Early for Food, Fun Games 555 Soqwl Ave, Branctforte Plana (nopasseno family nights ntbargaimatIneei (SMlli) im ill li i SAN FRANCI Ends Wednesday One of the year's 10 best. 'The comedy is classic Mike Nichols. Melanie Griffith is pure pleasure." -ViiKCTt Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES with Sigoumey Weaver and Harrison Ford pjciiir mm fan ten tati Mt 0 SUNDAY SHOWTIMES Workfni 2:45.

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Free Admission JOHN HAY Professor of Art History "Chinese Painting: The Living Work" April 24 GLORIA HULL Professor of Women's Studies and Literature SelfPresentations: The Poetry of Black American Women' May 1 KAREN MCNALLY Professor of Earth Sciences "Earthquakes" May 8 JULIANNE BURTON Professor of Literature "Don (Juanito) Duck and the Patriarchal Unconscious: The Good Neighbor Policy, Disney Studios, and the Packaging of Latin America" May 22 UNITED SlRTISTf DISCOUNT GENERAL ADMISSION FIRST AND WFFKDAYS BFFORF 6 11 PACIFIC, SANTA CHUZ. 1t-OtU HE'S THE FIRST HERO OF THE 21 ST CENTURY JEAN-CIAUDE VAN DAMME "CYBORG" OAILV 1 45-3 45-5 45-7 45-9-48 GFM Of A FUM" It "vwH- 4 MTVtrS TEDDANSON ISARF1JA ROSSELUNI "COUSINS" ikusi DAIIY I 30-4 10-7 15-30 "THE nmNlMT COWRDT Of THE TEAR." offC'i9 sirrv sfcono pntvif CHFVY CHASE "FLETCH LIVES" DAHV 1 15-3 15-5 15-7 45-9 45 KEANU RFFVES AIX WINTER "BILL TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE" OAILV 1 30-3 30-5 30-7 30-9 30 POf IM SO. HfVtH, SANTA CRUZ, 4M 133 "MESMEXIZmO. TtTHRIFTIrfO, PASCmATtROt" PM Presented by GAUlT SCHOOL APRIL 22 23 Sat. Sun.

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