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Keaton ’ s negative comments about the film are often reported but this final recollection by Schneider may redress the balance: “ hatever he may have subsequently said to interviewers or reporters about not understanding a moment of what he was doing or what the film was about, what I remember best of our final farewell on the set was that he smiled and half-admitted those six pages were worth doing after all .”
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The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow, to cite just a few examples, made these performers ’ faces well-known on every continent.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, which won two Emmy Awards and was directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, is considered a much more accurate telling of Keaton ’ s story.
* Brownlow, Kevin, " Buster Keaton " from The Parade ’ s Gone By ( 1968 ) Alfred A. Knopf, ( 1976 ) University of California Press
James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, talked constantly about the 68 year old Buster Keaton and persuaded Schneider to consider him when MacGowran ’ s circumstances changed.
“‘ Yes, I accept the offer ,’ were silent Keaton ’ s unexpected first words to Schneider.
Couldn ’ t speak — he was not so much difficult, he just wasn ’ t there .’ Keaton would in fact die 18 months after the shooting of Film .”
Although the role called for Beckett ’ s seemingly ubiquitous bowler hat, Keaton had brought along some of his trademark flattened-down Stetsons and it was quickly agreed that he should wear one of those.
She was eager to work with Keaton and remarked, " It ’ s never about line counts for me.
Bob Keaton, the DA ’ s candidate in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding had served as an MCM councillor on Montreal City Council.
The party ’ s best result was in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding where Bob Keaton placed a close third behind the Liberals and the Union Nationale.
She was the first foreign woman to be approached by the American film company MGM to finance her direction of a big-budget feature, which became " Mrs. Soffel ( 1984 )" starring Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton This film tells the scandalous true-story of an affair between a prisoner and a prison warden ’ s wife, and was relatively well received by audiences and critics
DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented that " Other than a nice guest turn from Michael Keaton, ' Mom ' doesn ’ t do much to stand out from the crowd.
Gutiérrez ’ s first widely successful feature, Muerte de un burócrata ( Death of a Bureaucrat ) ( 1966 ) introduces itself as a sort of homage to the history of cinematic comedy, and includes direct allusions to the work of Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Luis Buñuel, and many others.
'" As theorized by David Bellos, Hulot may even represent an inversion of The Tramp: “ Hulot tilts forwards whereas Chaplin tilts back ; Chaplin ’ s puppet-like waddle is very different from Hulot ’ s ‘ springy glide ’; and there is a difference in costume too: the bowler, tails, huge pants, cane and cigarette are replaced by a pipe, various accessories, pants that are too short, a sports blazer and a Homburg, although the striped socks are borrowed from Keaton .”
' They kept saying they loved the environment, the style of journalism .” The model for Keaton ’ s character was the Daily News ' metro editor Richie Esposito.
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TV Guide < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Movie Guide wrote that " Winkler turns in the best performance of his career, and Keaton is wonderful.
According to Allen, Keaton changed the dynamic of the film because he " always look ( s ) sober and normal compared to Keaton.
Keaton and comments
) Often when crew was stumped over a technical problem with the camera, he came through with suggestions, inevitably prefacing his comments by explaining that he had solved such problems many times at the Keaton Studios back in 1927 .”
Keaton and about
In a text about the audience of UK Decay, journalist Steve Keaton asked this question: " Could this be the coming of Punk Gothique?
According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.
The Railrodder was made in tandem with a behind-the-scenes documentary about Keaton's life and times, called Buster Keaton Rides Again, also made for the National Film Board.
Keaton was reunited with them about a decade later when his older son turned 18.
In 1933, he married his nurse, Mae Scriven, during an alcoholic binge about which he afterwards claimed to remember nothing ( Keaton himself later called that period an " alcoholic blackout ").
In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers of Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit at their house the day before he died.
In 1987 Italian singer-songwriters Claudio Lolli and Francesco Guccini wrote a song, Keaton, about his work in Italy on the film Due Marines e un Generale
* Brighton, Catherine, Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton ( 2008 ) Roaring Brook Press ( An illustrated children's book about Keaton's career )
Cops is a 1922 comedy short silent film about a young man ( Buster Keaton ) who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade, and is chased all over town.
* Parts of the 1994 movie Speechless, with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton, about a fictional New Mexico senatorial campaign, were filmed in Las Vegas.
As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars.
In 1987, Keaton directed and edited her first feature film, a documentary named Heaven about the possibility of an afterlife.
Keaton commented about the situation in Ladies ' Home Journal: " Let's face it, people my age and Jack's age are much deeper, much more soulful, because they've seen a lot of life.
Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers ' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.
The driver, Benjamin Miles Keaton, 39, was airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he died about an hour later.
A book about Buster Keaton is available, as well as books about Muskegon street names and the origins of several companies founded in the city.
In the Family Ties episode, " My Name is Alex ", Alex Keaton sees a psychiatrist about his survivor guilt after his friend is killed in a car accident, in part because his friend was running an errand that Alex declined to help him with.
Keaton and film
Buster Keaton made his final film appearance in the role of Erronius.
In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.
* 2005: The Three Ages ( new soundtrack to the Buster Keaton film )
However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).
Starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, and featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio-exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $ 80 million on a relatively low budget and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup.
When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
The result was Batman Returns which featured Michael Keaton returning as the Dark Knight, and a new triad of villains: Danny DeVito ( as the Penguin ), Michelle Pfeiffer ( as Catwoman ) and Christopher Walken as Max Shreck, an evil corporate tycoon and original character created for the film ( similar to Superman IIIs Ross Webster ).
* January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress and film director
* October 4 – Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( d. 1966 )
** Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( b. 1895 )
Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.
Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.
By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.
" Mason found numerous cans of previously " lost " Keaton films in the house in the 1950s ; the films were quickly transferred by Raymond Rohauer to safety film before the original cellulose nitrate prints further deteriorated.
In 1955, Keaton was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.
A 1957 film biography, The Buster Keaton Story, starred Donald O ' Connor as Keaton.
In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton.
Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton " looked like their caricatures ".
Keaton said he was lucky if he used only six hats in making a film.
Based on Scott McPherson's screenplay adaptation of his own 1991 stage play of the same name, the film revolves around two sisters, played by Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, who are reunited through tragedy after 17 years of estrangement.
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