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Entries from SFist tagged with 'charliechaplin'

April 30, 2008

File this -- again -- under "there's ALWAYS a San Francisco connection". We recently discovered that Charlie Chaplin, America's favourite clown (and perhaps the most influential performer in motion picture history), shot one of his bazillion-odd silent movies on location in and around Golden Gate Park. "A Jitney Elopement" is classic slapstick, featuring a case of mistaken identity, a jitney (think "flivver"), a mustachioed scoundrel and -- inevitably -- madcap hilarity. This milestone 1915......

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March 7, 2005

A quick recap on the anonymous Abercrombie & Hitler posters drawing gasps and artsy-fartsy analysis in the Castro. Horribly, some bastard has defaced the trademark-infringing Nazi images! But oddly, it wasn't the swastikas, corpses, or winsome man with a Charlie Chaplin moustache that bothered the vandal; instead, it was the A&F logo (which actually says "Abercrombic & Fitch) itself. Repeatedly, Chris (San Francisco's intrepid anti-conformist crusader) has posted his images, which compare Nazi propaganda......

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