Funeral celebrant out for commentary two celebrants he considered outstanding, Brian McInerney and Rick Barclay. International acknowledgment was provided by a comprehensive article in Time Magazine (September 2004) reporting that in the "liberal" cities of Melbourne (Australia) and Auckland (New Zealand) civil celebrants "conduct substantially more than half of the funerals." It reported that before 1973 only clergy funerals were available to the general public in Australia and New Zealand. The article describes celebrant funerals as "intimate and personalised". But it also cited an alternative point of view by atheist sociologist Mira Crouch who stated that celebrant funerals were "mawkish and sentimental".
Modern Times (film) not an orchestrator and was unfamiliar with synchronization. Raksin later created scores for such films as "Laura" and "The Day After". "Modern Times" is often hailed as one of Chaplin's greatest achievements, and it remains one of his most popular films. It has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 53 critic reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "A slapstick skewering of industrialized America, "Modern Times" is as politically incisive as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious." Contemporary reviews were very positive. Frank Nugent of "The New York Times" wrote, "'Modern Times' has still the same old Charlie, the lovable little