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| | David Gerstein's Charlie Chaplin Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | For the purpose of this study, I will use the terminology that many film historians have: that Charlie is the filmic alter ego of Charles Chaplin, filmmaker. |
 | | And Charlie Chaplin, under that name, and under such nom-de-plumes as "the eternal tramp," "the tramp philosopher," and so on, has risen to fame as an icon alone. |
 | | While Chaplin himself was, of course, prominent on the world scene as well, he was less the being celebrated, when folk spoke his name, than his icon was: the iconic stature really belonged to his far more prominent filmic creation, for better or worse. |
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