Scene from Stealing Chaplin. Fair use.
British director Paul Tanter’s droll
Stealing Chaplin may be a comedy that will keep audiences laughing from beginning to end. Still, the other movie it reminds me of is screenwriter Kemp Powers’s
One Night in Miami. Although the latter is a heavy-hitting drama, the fanciful stories of both
Miami and
Stealing are loosely inspired by real-life events. In the case of the former, following his 1964 championship bout with Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali really did spend much of the rest of the evening with Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a Miami motel room. Little is known of what those titans said and did that evening. Still, this actual, historic incident kindled Powers’s powers of imagination to conjure up what may have come to pass, which was dramatized on stage by L.A.’s Rogue Machine in 2013 and onscreen last year.
Arcos smothers its hilltop, tumbling down all sides like the train of a wedding dress. The labyrinthine old centre is a photographer’s feast. I can feel the breeze funnel through the narrow streets as drivers pull in car mirrors to squeeze through. Residents brag that they only see the backs of the birds as they fly. To see what they mean, I climb to the viewpoint at the main square, high in the old town. Bellying up to the railing the town’s suicide jumping-off point I look down and ponder the fancy cliffside hotel’s erosion concerns, orderly orange groves, flower-filled greenhouses, fine views toward Morocco…and the backs of the birds as they fly.
Sitdown Sunday: Can less praise help you be a better parent?
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads. By Aoife Barry Sunday 4 Apr 2021, 9:00 AM Apr 4th 2021, 9:00 AM 16,901 Views 0 Comments
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IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.
We’ve hand-picked the week’s best reads for you to savour.
(The Guardian, approx 21 mins reading time)
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