#j edgar hoover
You may have seen the billboards and wondered. I know I did. A towering image of a group of people dressed in early 20th century Western attire, one of them ostensibly resembling the iconic British comedian and filmmaker, Charlie Chaplin. Emblazoned in golden letters across the foreground: Charlie. Was this a film? Its billboard hung high over a busy road, where one would normally see ads for Egyptian blockbusters, but it was nowhere to be found on movie theatre schedules.…