Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6619 Hollywood Boulevard ( for motion pictures ); and 6321 Hollywood Boulevard ( for television ).

Despite this, Keaton has stated that the relationship between Alvy and Annie was partly based on her relationship with the director.

Schneider has speculated that it may simply have been the opportunity to work directly with Keaton.

“ It has even been suggested that the inspiration for Waiting for Godot might have come from a minor Keaton film called The Lovable Cheat in which Keaton plays a man who waits endlessly for the return of his partner-whose name interestingly enough was Godot .”

As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available.

" 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.

As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell ' Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

In 2010, he was the executive producer and star of The Other Guys, a buddy cop film, which also has an ensemble cast which consists of Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson.

At the end of the film, Keaton dives into a swimming pool which has been emptied of water.

Allen has credited Keaton as his muse during his early film career.

) Keaton has also said that Allen wrote the character as an " idealized version " of herself.

In addition to acting, Keaton has stated that "< nowiki ></ nowiki > had a lifelong ambition to be a singer.

A review of the film for the San Francisco Examiner was one of many in which Keaton once again received comparison to Katharine Hepburn: " No longer relying on that stuttering uncertainty that seeped into all her characterizations of the 1970s, she has somehow become Katharine Hepburn with a deep maternal instinct, that is, she is a fine and intelligent actress who doesn't need to be tough and edgy in order to prove her feminism.

In addition, Keaton has been cast in the family comedy One Big Happy alongside Steve Martin, and The Look of Love, an independent romance film, with Ed Harris.

Referring to the relationship, Keaton has said " Al was simply the most entertaining man ... To me, that's, that is the most beautiful face.

" Keaton has two adopted children, daughter Dexter ( adopted 1996 ) and son Duke ( 2001 ).

Since summer 2006, Keaton has been the new face of L ' Oréal.

Keaton has served as a producer on films and television series.

Outside of the film industry, Keaton has continued to pursue her interest in photography.

Keaton has also established herself as a real estate developer.

Collins has co-starred with Diane Keaton in two movies: The First Wives Club ( 1996 ) and Because I Said So ( 2007 ).

Columbia Pictures has prepared digital restorations of its 20 Charley Chase shorts, in the same manner as its Buster Keaton DVD restorations.

Michael Keaton has been generally praised for his work in this film.

" 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!

Keaton later said, " I took a lot of pratfalls to build that dump.

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.

Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars ; at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $ 13.

Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.

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 .”

Keaton said that the biggest challenge of the role was understanding the mentality of a person with terminal illness.

Keaton reportedly said that Tati's work with sound had carried on the true tradition of silent cinema.

Beckett is even said to have wanted Marlon Brando in one production ( with Buster Keaton as Vladimir ).

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.

The New York Times movie review said, " One Week, a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies.

The singular event that triggered Mae filing for divorce in 1935 was her finding Keaton in flagrante delicto with the infamous Leah Clampitt Sewell on the 4th of July of that same year in a hotel in Santa Barbara.

In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.

In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty ( her co-star in $ and Shampoo ) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco.

Coincidentally, Diane Keaton, whose birth name is Diane Hall, took her mother's maiden name as a stage name after learning that there was already a registered actress named Diane Hall in the Actors ' Equity Association.

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.

Later that year, she made her TV acting debut in the cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton and starring Patricia Arquette.

Michael and Kay ( Diane Keaton ) have been divorced since 1960, and Michael gave her custody of their children, Anthony ( Franc D ' Ambrosio ) and Mary ( Sofia Coppola ).

Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970.

Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona.

Her mother, Dorothy Deanne ( née Keaton ; 1921 – 2008 ), was a homemaker and amateur photographer ; her father, Jack Newton Ignatius Hall ( 1921 – 1990 ), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.

Keaton was raised a Methodist by her mother.

Upon joining the Actors ' Equity Association, she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall.

After being nominated for a Tony Award for Play It Again, Sam, Keaton made her film debut in 1970's Lovers and Other Strangers.

Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in Lovers and Other Strangers, and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role ( Keaton claims that at the time she was commonly referred to as " the kooky actress " of the film industry ).

Even though Keaton received widespread exposure from the films, her character's importance was minimal.

In 1977, Keaton starred with Allen in the romantic comedy Annie Hall, one of her most famous roles.