Re: Chaplinesque Kate

[Richard Bensam <rabensam@earthlink.net>]

Steffi wrote:

>>Hi friends!
>>Did anyone ever notice a similarity between Kate and Charlie Chaplin? I think
>>she cites that famous scene with the dancing bread (uh- how do you call
>>this little
>>bread-thing in English, - roll??)

And Chris replied:

>   Yes, Americans call them "rolls"...but I have no idea what the English
>call
>them.

If memory serves, the English call them "um, er, those little sort of
roundish bread-like thingies.  I'm sorry, it was thoughtless of me to ask.
I'll just have some toast.  Only please don't bother to toast it."

(But really, when I lived in London, there was a bakery right across the
street from my flat that did these absolutely delicious rolls.  They had a
name for the rolls which actually was five words long.  And they kept
changing the name every couple of weeks.  Finally, I just pointed and said
"some of those."  So that's why I never found out what the English call
rolls.)

>>from "The Goldrush" in her Red Shoes vid. The scene where
>>she performs a little pantomime dance with the shoes. How do you think about
>>that?
>
>   I never really caught that, but I believe you are correct. Good eyes! I
>don't recall Kate ever mentioning Chaplin, but it is possible. The reference
>is probably second generation - Kate probably saw it in the movie with
>Robert Downey Jr.

I never spotted this either.  Well done, Steffi!  But Chris, why do you
think Kate wouldn't have seen the original?  The woman is, after all,
something of a film buff.


RAB
(who loves all British people everywhere, so please don't write in and
complain)

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