When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Got here in twentieth Place

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Char­lie Chap­lin begin­ed seem­ing in his first movies in 1914—40 movies, to be exact—and, by 1915, the Unit­ed States had a significant case of “Chap­lini­tis.” Chap­lin mus­tach­es have been sud­den­ly pop­ping up each­the place–as have been Chap­lin imi­ta­tors and Chap­lin look-alike con­exams. A younger Bob Hope appar­ent­ly received one such con­take a look at in Cleve­land. Chap­lin Fever con­tin­ued…

The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Be taught from the Painful Classes of the Twentieth Century

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From Rick Steves comes a thought-pro­vok­ing doc­u­males­tary that revis­its the rise of fas­cism in Europe, remind­ing us of how charis­mat­ic fig­ures like Ben­i­to Mus­soli­ni and Adolf Hitler got here to pow­er by promis­ing to cre­ate a wager­ter future for his or her frus­trat­ed, eco­nom­i­cal­ly depressed nations–a future that recap­tured the glo­ry of some mythol­o­gized previous….

The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of many “Best Cultural Moments of the twentieth Century” (1965)

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Howl­in’ Wolf might properly have been the good­est blues singer of the twentieth cen­tu­ry. Cer­tain­ly many peo­ple have stated so, however there are oth­er mea­positive­ments than mere opin­ion, although it’s one I hap­pen to share. The person born Chester Arthur Bur­nett additionally had a professional­discovered his­tor­i­cal impact on pop­u­lar cul­ture, and on the way in…