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.

It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

Charlie was waiting, leaning against a building front.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

it was not quite six o'clock when we finished and Charlie said, `` Well, I guess that's it.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

( On Thursday nobody except Charlie Coe was thinking of Charlie Coe.

Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.

but Charlie knew what was wrong with him and knew, too, that there was no pill to cure it.

Charlie forbore to mention that the wet was somewhat universal, Peony being less than weatherproof.

All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.

The first was by Charlie Rich, which went to number 22 in 1976.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

This was denounced as a double standard by left-wing critics such as then Knesset Member Charlie Biton.

The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).