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Keaton and claimed
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 ").
Keaton claimed that making the film " saved < nowiki ></ nowiki > life.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claimed that Town & Country was " less deserving of a review than it is an obituary .... The corpse took with it the reputations of its starry cast, including Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.

Keaton and was
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.
Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well received by critics in the United States ( in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.
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.
However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).
His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-director for Educational Pictures ; he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar.
She attempted two unsuccessful series in a row: Mary, which featured David Letterman, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz and Dick Shawn in the supporting cast and lasted three episodes, which was re-tooled as The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, a backstage show within a show, with Mary portraying a TV star putting on a variety show.
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 ).
Joseph Frank " Buster " Keaton ( October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966 ) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer.
Buster Keaton ( his lifelong stage name ) was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Keaton was born Joseph Frank Keaton into a vaudeville family.
He was named " Joseph " to continue a tradition on his father's side — he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton — and " Frank " for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of the parents ' union.
His father was Joseph Hallie " Joe " Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana.
Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ( née Myra Edith Cutler ), happened to go into labor.
" According to Keaton, in those days, the word " buster " was used to refer to a spill or a fall that had the potential to produce injury.
The act evolved as Keaton learned to take trick falls safely ; he was rarely injured or bruised on stage.
However, Buster Keaton was always able to show the authorities that he had no bruises or broken bones.
" Decades later, Keaton said that he was never hurt by his father and that the falls and physical comedy were a matter of proper technical execution.
It is said that, when one official saw Keaton in full costume and makeup and asked a stagehand how old he was, the stagehand, aware of the situation with the Keatons, then pointed to the boy's mother, saying, " I don't know, ask his wife!
" According to one biographer, Keaton was made to go to school while performing in New York, but only attended for part of one day.
Despite tangles with the law and a disastrous tour of music halls in the United Kingdom, Keaton was a rising star in the theater.

Keaton and having
Comedian Richard Lewis stated that Keaton was his prime inspiration, and spoke of having a close friendship with Keaton's widow Eleanor.
His best friend, Yale ( Michael Murphy ), married to Emily ( Anne Byrne ), is having an affair with Mary Wilkie ( Diane Keaton ); her ex-husband and former teacher, Jeremiah ( Wallace Shawn ), also appears.
When Buster Keaton began making his own shorts, after having worked with Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle for years, he hired Cline as his co-director.
The Washington Post wrote: " Even though she is authoritative in the role, Keaton suffers tremendously from having no real function except to nag Michael for his past sins.
Keaton and Allen first met during her audition for the Broadway production of Play It Again, Sam, but they did not know each other personally until having dinner after a late night rehearsal.

Keaton and so
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.
The latter chose the last name Keaton simply because he came across a picture of actress Diane Keaton and " liked the sound of name ," so he adopted it as his own.
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 .”
" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.
Roger Ebert wrote that " Nicholson and Keaton bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for.
Though some critics found that Keaton was underused in the film, the actress was generally praised for performance, with James Berardinelli of ReelViews noting that " Diane Keaton is so good at her part that one can see her sliding effortlessly into an anchor's chair on a real morning show.
A rumor has persisted, fueled by the intense rivalry among fans of the two comics, that Keaton gave such a superior performance that Chaplin jealously cut his scenes so he would not be upstaged by his rival.
Keaton allegedly walked out of filming, which gives somewhat of an explanation as to why the film ended so suddenly.
Keaton set the film in the 1830s so he could indulge his passion for trains by creating a working model of Stephenson's Rocket, an early locomotive.

Keaton and much
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.
Roger Ebert stated that " Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems.
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.
" Keaton played a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with her daughter's much older boyfriend.
On its release in the United States, Bosley Crowther's review said that the film contained " much the same visual satire that we used to get in the ' silent ' days from the pictures of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and such as those.
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.

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