KEATON BIO CRACKS STONE-FACED FACADE\BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE.\BY MARION MEADE.\HARPERCOLLINS. 440 PAGES. $30.(ENTERTAINMENT/WEEKEND/SPOTLIGHT)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | February 7, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: MICHAEL BLOWEN

There are hundreds of hours of Buster Keaton on celluloid. From his classic silent films The General and Sherlock, Jr. through his television appearances on such variety shows as Ed Sullivan to the terrible beach movie How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Keaton's film persona was always stone-faced. He never smiled. Never.

In this keen-eyed biography with a sharp sense of history, author Marion Meade contends that Keaton's sour expression began long before Buster appeared in his first movie, Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle's The Butcher House in ...

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