Your Mental Sorbet: Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award

Here is another "Mental Sorbet" that we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.

April 10, 1972. After a 20-year exile in Europe, Charlie Chaplin returned to Hollywood to receive an honorary Oscar. Chaplin, then 82, received probably the longest standing ovation in the history of the Oscar telecast as he walked slowly to the podium to pick up his Academy Award for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of the century." Chaplin was quite literally speechless as he looked at the throng of stars whose cheers kept getting louder. He finally uttered "thank you so much," referring to the audience as "sweet people." And there wasn't a dry eye in the house when Jack Lemmon gave him his famous Little Tramp hat and cane.

Charlie Chaplin Oscar d'Honneur 1972 by BryanAiki

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Tony Figueroa