Funeral celebrant standard. Many Funeral Directors in these states saw celebrants as a threat to their income and were openly hostile. Several firms declared every member of their staff a celebrant. Others employed an in-house celebrant who was required to perform 13 or 14 funeral ceremonies per week — compelling such employees to resort to one-size-fits-all impersonal ceremonies. A "celebrant funeral" in these contexts became the worst option available. As author and commentator Robert Larkins put it, speaking of one family’s experience- As church attendances declined, funeral directors in New South Wales pushed non-church people into organising "family ceremonies". A few families
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