Buster Keaton revisited, redundantly

Chicago Sun-Times | May 8, 2005| | Copyright

Buster Keaton

Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

Newmarket Press. $26.95.

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat is not a biography. "This book is merely a fan's notes," Edward McPherson writes in the introduction, although his publisher ignores the disclaimer and calls it a biography on the cover. In fact, the book is a bit of both, a difficult combination to bring off unless you're David Thomson, who set the standard with Rosebud, his penetrating rumination on the life and career of Orson Welles, which was nothing if not a distillation of every obsessive thought he ever had about the ...

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