in limelight

Just as Chaplin’s weary presence in “Limelight” was made all the more poignant by his fans’ decades-long devotion, so Tsai’s admirers will be deeply moved by the sight of the great Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng — a melancholy fixture of the director’s movies since his youthful 1991 debut feature, “Rebels of the Neon God” — here surrendering his slower, wearier 52-year-old body to the gaze of the camera.

Carter is ready to party until his career implodes, but he’s contractually obligated to star alongside Kevin Kline in “Limelight,” a Broadway musical re-imagining the Charlie Chaplin film.

Carter is ready to party until his career implodes, but he is contractually obligated to star alongside Kevin Kline in “Limelight,” a Broadway musical reimagining the Charlie Chaplin film.

The actor Norman Lloyd—who was in “Limelight” and, now a centenarian, is in “Trainwreck”—saw “Limelight” as Chaplin’s way of “saying, ‘I, Charlie Chaplin, doubt that I can make people laugh any longer.’

A jury in 2008 found in Limelight's favor, but the judge threw out the verdict saying Limelight did not itself use all of Massachusetts-based Akamai's technology.