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What! No Fun?
Finally, I have seen ALL of 1933’s What! No Beer? starring Jimmy Durante and a sadly demolished Buster Keaton. How did this gobbler ever look good on paper? We had to choke it down in five-minute segments. Where to … Continue reading
Dances With Cooks: Busterthon
I could babble on about how much I love Buster Keaton in Comique’s The Cook … so I will. This 1918 two- reeler, distributed by Paramount, was shot at Long Beach, California. In addition to Buster, it contains Roscoe ‘Fatty’ … Continue reading
Busterbooks
Two out-of-print masterpieces, well worth the search. The Lebel book (which looks yellow here, but the cover’s actually sage green, a nice touch considering the image with Brown Eyes from 1925′s Go West) is like reading a love letter, even if … Continue reading
Full Frontal Genius
Buster Keaton has been quoted as saying, ‘You can’t be a genius in slap shoes.’ I disagree. You can be a genius in far worse. I am a Keaton fan from so far back I own an 8mm copy of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Free and Easy, Humor, Old Hollywood Glamour
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Squirrels!
“If Roscoe (’Fatty’) Arbuckle aimed his two-reelers at 12-year-olds, then MGM aimed their Buster Keaton talkies at squirrels.” —-Professor Bunky