Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.
Born as Mikall (or Michael) Sinnott in Danville, Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers. His father was a blacksmith in the small Eastern Townships village. When he was 17 years old his family moved to Connecticut.
The family lived for a time in Northampton, Massachusetts, where, according to his autobiography, Sennett first got the idea to go on stage after seeing a vaudeville show. He claimed that the most respected lawyer in town, Northampton mayor (and future President of the United States) Calvin Coolidge, as well as Sennett's own mother, tried to talk him out of his theatrical ambitions.[citation needed]
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Charles Avery (born 1973) is a Scottish artist from Oban. He currently lives and works in London. Since 2004 Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of an imaginary island. Through drawings, sculptures and texts Avery describes the topology, cosmology and inhabitants of this fictional territory, from the market of the main town Onomatopoeia to the Eternal Forest where an unknown beast called the Noumenon is held to reside. The project can be read as a meditation on some of the central themes of philosophy, of art-making, and on the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas.
The first most comprehensive presentation of The Islanders project, "The Islanders: An Introduction", was exhibited at Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, in 2008 and toured to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 2009. Other solo presentations include the exhibition "Onomatopoeia, Part 1", which was exhibited at EX3- Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence in 2010 and toured to Kunstverein Hanover and Frac Ile-de-France/le Plateau, Paris in 2011.
Recent group exhibitions include: Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2009); A Walk in Your Mind, Hayward Gallery, (2009); A Duck for Mr Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, (2009); and Altermodern: 4th Tate Triennial, London (2009). Avery represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in the British Art Show 7 and Folkestone Triennial in 2011.
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The life of silent screen star Mabel Normand (Penelope Lagos) is seen through the repentant eyes of a Reporter Charlie Craig (Rudy Cecera), whose scandalous stories of Mabel's private life helped contribute to her career's downfall. Thanks to his articles, Mabel...once considered the "Queen of Comedy" who made history by being Hollywood's first female Producer, Director and Stunt Woman...is now considered Hollywood's First Party Girl. Her health soon takes a similar downward spiral and as she lies near death, Charlie finally gets a conscience and embarks on a quest to report all the positive aspects of her life. Through the stories of her friends and associates, Charlie's journey not only enlightens him as to Mabel's accomplishments but gives him hope that he'll vindicate her to the public and earn her forgiveness before it's too late.
Hollywood's First Party Girl
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The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie's life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind "The Little Tramp" was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.
Keywords: 1800s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, actor, actor-plays-their-own-ancestor, actress
He made the whole world laugh and cry. He will again.
Everyone has a wild side. Even a legend.
[Chaplin tells Sennett he intends to leave Sennett's employ and open his own studio]::Mack Sennett: Charlie, I've been so rotten to you. I don't know if you can forgive me. I forced you to leave Butte, Montana. I made you accept a hundred and fifty per. You mentioned directing and I stuffed that down your throat too. Now tell me how else Uncle Mack can make it up to you!::Charlie Chaplin: I want to run my own show, Mack.::Mack Sennett: Don't kid yourself, Chaplin. You're not that big.::[spits on the floor, missing the spitoon]::Charlie Chaplin: That's the first time I've ever seen you miss, Mack.
Douglas Fairbanks: Say, are you two still married or what? I find it all very confusing.::Charlie Chaplin: Mmm... it's not at all confusing. You see, when everyone thought we were having an affair, we were married. Now that everyone realizes we're married, we're getting divorced.::Douglas Fairbanks: Man's a wizard with women. No question about it.
Charlie Chaplin: If you want to understand me, watch my movies.
[Sennett is explaining the film industry to Chaplin as Rollie edits a film]::Mack Sennett: Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy.::Rollie Totheroh: How much you reckon Mack? Couple yards of Mabel?::Mack Sennett: Hmm, yeah. Nah, make it three. But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to.
Charlie Chaplin: Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.
Charlie Chaplin: I'm sorry, I prefer not to shake hands with Nazis.::German Diplomat: What have you got against us, Mr. Chaplin?::Charlie Chaplin: What have you got against everybody else?::Man at party: You'll have to forgive him. He's a Jew!::German Diplomat: Really.::Charlie Chaplin: I'm afraid I DON'T have that honor! Excuse me.::Woman at party: [to Chaplin as he leaves] Shame on you!
Paulette: Did you lose your other wives this way?::Charlie Chaplin: I think so. But you'd have to ask them.
Charlie Chaplin: Syd, I love this country. I owe it everything. That's why I *can* make fun of it!
[about Hetty Kelly]::George Hayden: But you didn't even kiss her!::Charlie Chaplin: Don't you think I know that?
Douglas Fairbanks: Charles, you're a foreigner; you're still an outsider. You've never understood this country.::Charlie Chaplin: It's a good country underneath, Doug.::Douglas Fairbanks: No, it's a good country on *top*. Underneath, that's what starts showing when we're scared.
By Actual Laugh Count...The Funniest Film Of All Time! (original print ad)
The Motion Picture That Brings Lughter Back To The Screen! (original print ad)
A Connoisseur's Collection Of The Creme De La Comedie! (original print ad)
Any age is the golden age for...
When every face wore a custard pie, and vamps broke hearts with a winking eye!
Slapstick chases!... Pies in faces!... Shapely beauts in bathing suits!
Bailandoooooo
Lo De Nosotros
Vamos A resolverlo
Bailandooooo
Sin Miedo Dale Que Me Estassss
Calentandooooooo
Que Paso Ma!!!
Pídelo que tu quieras
No toy jugandooooo
Sin miedo déjate llevar
Por el mamboooooo
are you ready!!!!
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando (síguelo)
Machucando
Machucando (daddy yankee)
Machucando
Machucando
Como un animal, Como un animal
Me la voy a tirar, la voy a devorar
Como un animal, Como un animal
Me la voy a llevar
Machucando
Por la capital, ese material
Demasiado brutal
Si fuera normal, sonido bestial
Como un animal, Como un animal
Machucando
Rabioso, camino camino
Le voy a dar sabor latino
Que se mueve hasta los vecinos
(Let them know)
Camino, rabioso, camino
Pa que ella pueda quedar sola conmigo
Bailandoooooo
Lo De Nosotros
Vamos A resolverlo
Bailandooooo
Sin Miedo Dale Que Me Estas
Calentandooooooo
Que Paso Ma!!!
Pídelo que tu quieras
No toy jugandooooo
Sin miedo déjate llevar
Por el mambo
are you ready!!!!
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Como un animal, Como un animal
Ese na' que hacer
Pa' ir a matar
Como un animal, Como un animal
La quiero atacar, la quiero atacar
Bien bien bien duro
Ese material
Sisisisi siki demasia'o brutal
Cuidado con el animal
(Machucando)
Rabioso!
Camino, camino en el tamaño
No importa el padrino
Con el___
Síguelo!!!
Camino
Rabioso!
Camino
Shhh stop!!!!
(Nos fuimos)
Como un animal
Salvaje y letal
Le voy pa' encima a mí presa
Muy natural
A Cien Grado Pega'o
Mas Que El Crazy Glue
Suda la piel como
Pollo a la barbicue
El Mazinger
Perriandose A Su Sayaka
Con el pilón estos dos
Se machacan
Sigo underground
Bien pega'o
El dinero y la fama
No me han cambiado
(Toda la noche Activa'o)
Bailandoooooo
Lo De Nosotros
Vamos A resolverlo
Bailandooooo
Sin Miedo Dale Que Me Estas
Calentandooooooo
Que Paso Ma!!!
Pídelo que tu quieras
No toy jugandooooo
Sin miedo déjate llevar
Por el mamboooooo
Da-da-da-daddy yankee
Loo loo
Looney toons!!
En directo!!
Simplemente
no fallamos
(Daddy)
Sin mucho palabreo
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando
Machucando