One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

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Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

One journalist wrote: " Nobody in the world but Charlie Chaplin could have done it.

The photographer considered the impromptu self-introduction a prank and angrily answered his caller with the riposte, " If you're Charlie Chaplin, I'm Franklin Roosevelt!

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Chaplin's photographic archives are held by the Musée de l ' Élysée in Lausanne, and some of the images in the collection were presented in an exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – Images d ' Un Mythe, in 2011 – 2012.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

* Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in Waterville, Ireland

* Charlie Chaplin Museum Website for a future museum at the Manoir de Ban, Switzerland

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

* Charlie Chaplin at the British Film Institute.

* The TIME 100: Charlie Chaplin Archived, May 2011.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Charlie Ahearn's independently released fiction film Wild Style ( Wild Style, 1983 ), the early PBS documentary Style Wars ( 1983 ), hit songs such as " The Message " and " Planet Rock " and their accompanying music videos ( both 1982 ) contributed to a growing interest outside New York in all aspects of hip hop.

Led by quarterback Charlie " Gus " Dorais and Rockne, the Notre Dame team attacked the Cadets with an offense that featured both the expected powerful running game but also long and accurate downfield forward passes from Dorais to Rockne.

* In the 1990 film Men At Work, Charlie Sheen's character, Carl Taylor, claims to be a Phrenologist in an attempt to both impress and deceive Leslie Hope's character, Susan Wilkins.

Bebop was the preferred form for younger talent based in New York, such as Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk who both rarely embraced the Big Band idiom.

During the filming of Monsieur Beaucaire, both Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks approached Valentino privately, due to his contract with Ritz Carlton, about joining with United Artists.

Then-governor Charlie Crist, a supporter of both amendments, submitted a request to the DOJ for preclearance, as required by the VRA.

In addition, both Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas still have people come up to them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film.

American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. " Victor " and " Charlie " are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

" Charlie " referred to communist forces in general, both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

While neither company has any ownership in the other, the majority of the voting power of the shares in both companies is owned by Charlie Ergen.

" Charlie " Bossart ( the man behind the Atlas ICBM ) and Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, both Convair employees.

* Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts and James Hanratty who was hanged for murder both lived in Kingsbury and attended Tylers Croft School.

Porterfield is home to the annual Porterfield Country Music Festival, a weekend of open air concerts held every summer which draws both local and nationally known country music artists such as Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Crystal Gayle, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn.

Charlie Brown and his creator are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the " most shining example of the American success story ", Charlie Brown is an example of " the great American un-success story " in that he fails in almost everything he does.

These clubs were the central force of Matchbox collecting in the ' 70s and ' 80s ( though both have since ceased to exist ), and from them, further spin-offs were formed, including UK Matchbox ( run by Ray Bush ), MICA ( Matchbox International Collectors Association ), and Matchbox USA ( run by Charlie Mack ), the latter of which are still in operation today.

The rendition of " Bring the Noise " on this album features both Anthrax and Public Enemy, and starts out with Flavor Flav doing most of his song " Too Much Posse ", to a beat by Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante.

The next single, " Charlie Brown ," reached # 2 on both charts.

Hetson formed a supergroup band called Black President, consisting of Charlie Paulson ( from Goldfinger ), Jason Christopher, Wade Youman ( both from Unwritten Law ) and Christian Martucci ( from Dee Dee Ramone ).

In 2007 Orleans released a live DVD / CD, We're Still Havin ' Fun, recorded in August 2006 in Pittsfield, MA, which included both John Hall and " Fly " Amero, as well as the three Hoppen Brothers and drummer Charlie Morgan.

During his high school years, he excelled in both music and drama, regularly securing the lead role in school plays, such as " Charlie " in a stage version of Flowers for Algernon, honing his skills under the guidance of teacher-mentors Jerry McAfee ( music ) and Charles Lewis ( drama ).

The four songs recorded were an 8-minute long version of ' In Every Heaven ' ( originally recorded in 1982 during the " New Gold Dream " sessions ) and three entirely new compositions: ' Stagefright ' and ' On The Rooftop ' both written by Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr and ' Broken Glass Park ' originally a Lostboy!