Chaplin's second onscreen starring role, and the first appearance of the Little Tramp / Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal. is based on the premise that this character can control the frame completely — an auspicious bow / Already lighting the match with a kick off his shoe-sole / It was Chaplin, before Hitchcock, who first "controlled the universe" / The Tramp, this drunk, doesn't give a shit / This drunk's a narcissist / Because tramps are real people too / Bukowski could have written this picture / Charlie / The thinking-man's Democrat
dude passes by two of my more recent abodes in this little clip. almost all the stores are different, but there are still a few distinguishing relics of yore intact today. at 4:51, he passes onto my corner at hwood/grammercy...
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