
Robert Altman directs Paul Newman in Quintet. 1979.

Chas on the set of The Kid. 1921.
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Destiny’s Child. 2001.
Santas of Christmas Past: Ringo and Nilsson, James Brown, Paul McCartney and Wings, Blackie Lawless, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Nick Ray.

Happy Xmas (War Is Over). John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. 1971.
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Claude replaced Charles Laughton in the role of Micawber in David Copperfield after Laughton worked on the film for three days. Halliwell’s Film Guide offers this possibly apocryphal story that Laughton was taken off the film because “he looked as though he were about to molest the child” but the book offers no source for the quote.

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