In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

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.

" 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.

Keaton was reunited with them about a decade later when his older son turned 18.

In 1926, Keaton spent $ 300, 000 to build a home in Beverly Hills, which was later owned by James Mason and Cary Grant.

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 ").

Although they decided to drop the murder plot, Allen and Brickman made a murder mystery many years later: 1993's Manhattan Murder Mystery, also starring Diane Keaton.

Wright's later film appearances included a major role in Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), the role of the grandmother in The Good Mother ( 1988 ) with Diane Keaton, and the role of Miss Birdie in John Grisham's The Rainmaker ( 1997 ), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

) Keaton would later reprise her Annie Hall appearance when she attended the 2003 Academy Awards presentation in a men's tuxedo and a bowler hat.

In 1978, Keaton became romantically involved with Warren Beatty, and two years later he cast her to play opposite him in Reds.

Keaton reprised her role four years later in the sequel, as a woman who becomes pregnant in middle age at the same time as her daughter.

He later moved to Washington, D. C. as an environmental lobbyist, there ( offscreen ) meeting a senator named Alex P. Keaton, the name of the character Fox played on Family Ties.

It stars Howard's Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, and Shelley Long, who later in the year would star as Diane Chambers in the popular sitcom Cheers.

Madhouse produced adaptations of Urasawa's Yawara !, Master Keaton and Monster, with Masayuki Kojima helming the later two.

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.

In 2004, Keaton and Kylie landed the recurring roles of Phoebe Forrester and Steffy Forrester respectively on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which would later earn them a Young Artist Award nomination for " Best Performance in a Television Series / Recurring Young Actress ".

The film Something's Gotta Give starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton explores the relationship that develops between two people in later life.

The driver, Benjamin Miles Keaton, 39, was airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he died about an hour later.

At Oxford, Keaton met and later married his wife, who was a mathematics student at Somerville College.

The couple later divorced, with Keaton leaving his five-year-old daughter in her mother's care.

Mac later offered him the opportunity to be her Vice President after Warren Keaton resigned and he accepted.

Keaton later donated the machine to the Smithsonian Institution, which had lacked an authentic example.

Twenty-one years later, Willie ( Buster Keaton Sr .) receives a letter informing him that his father's estate is now in his name.

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!

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 .”

" 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.

Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her to become a stage actress.

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

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

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 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.

“‘ Yes, I accept the offer ,’ were silent Keaton ’ s unexpected first words to Schneider.

: “ The heat was terrible-while I was staggering in the humidity, Keaton was galloping up and down and doing whatever we asked of him.

In 1999 Keaton narrated the one-hour public-radio documentary, " If I Get Out Alive ," the first to focus on the conditions and brutality faced by young people in the adult correctional system.

In 2007, Keaton starred in both Because I Said So and Mama's Boy.

In the romantic comedy Because I Said So, directed by Michael Lehmann, Keaton played a long-divorced mother of three daughters, determined to pair off her only single daughter Milly, played by Mandy Moore.

In July 2001, Keaton publicly announced that she had given up pursuing romance, and stated, " I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less.

Keaton stated that she produced her 1987 documentary Heaven because, " I was always pretty religious as a kid ...

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

On January 15, 2008, during an interview with Sawyer, the actress Diane Keaton admired Sawyer's beauty, stating that if she had lips like Sawyer's, " then I wouldn't have worked on my fucking personality!

Jackson appeared in a number of films including Baby Boom with Diane Keaton, Family Business with Sean Connery, The Pick-up Artist, The Couch Trip and I Love You to Death during the time she was a cast member of Saturday Night Live.

At his funeral, silent screen comedian Buster Keaton was overheard giving his assessment of the comedian's considerable talent: " Chaplin wasn't the funniest, I wasn't the funniest, this man was the funniest.

He also appeared in the 1976 Elliott Gould / Diane Keaton vehicle I Will, I Will ... For Now.

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In a regular script I would have done that upon hiring Diane Keaton.

In interviews with Kevin Brownlow, Keaton claims he gave the director's credit to Cline mainly because he did not want to appear too Ince-like himself: " Having kidded things like that, I hesitated to put my own name on as a director and writer.

Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of a possible four :" When I did a seminar at the Hawaii Film Festival several years ago, comparing the physical comedy of Chan and Buster Keaton, martial arts fans brought in their bootleg Hong Kong laser discs of this film and told me that I had to see the final 20-minute fight sequence.