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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895-1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable acrobatic skills, which he had developed as a child in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed a... Read more |
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clown
clown a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. Clownish figures appear in the... Read more |
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Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell Guitarist, composer For the Record … Selected discography Sources Why would a serious jazz guitarist be interested in composing accompaniments for slapstick genius Buster Keaton’s silent movies? The answer, as Gene Santoro reported in the New York Daily News, is that Bill... Read more |
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Michael Keaton
Keaton, Michael 1951–PERSONALOriginal name, Michael John Douglas; born September 9, 1951, in Coraopolis, PA; father, a civil engineer and surveyor; mother's name Leona Douglas (a homemaker); married Caroline McWilliams (an actress), 1982 (divorced, 1990); children: Sean Willie. Education: Studied... Read more |
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Neckties
Neckties A decorative piece of fabric knotted around the neck has been a part of the clothing of Western men since the seventeenth century, though the exact nature of the necktie has changed frequently over that time. Neckties have been wide or narrow, brightly patterned or somber, depending on the... Read more |
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Car Wash
Car Wash BUSINESS PLAN THE DIRT BUSTER 11535 Cornish Blvd. Detroit, MI 46778 March 15, 1993 The Dirt Buster was designed by entrepreneurs wishing to provide a high quality car wash service in a virtually untapped market. Because new construction is... Read more |
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Look at Comic Actor Buster Keaton, CBS
...see at the movies was Buster Keaton. And as Jerry Bowen is...to this day, Buster Keaton is among the very best...Gladiator," there was Buster Keaton, the master of physical...Academy of Motion Picture Arts ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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UNEARTHED BUSTER KEATON BRINGS SILENT MAGIC TO LIFE.(ACCENT)
...achievements. In ``The Playhouse,'' Keaton buys a ticket to a minstrel show and discovers that Buster Keaton, in differing costumes and drag...stage. Special effects? Hardly. Keaton was able to play nine Busters in a minstrel show by taping ... |
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Film World Celebrates the Genius of Buster Keaton
...silent film comedian Buster Keaton, whose 100th birthday...comedy was born. Buster Keaton was known as the great...the International Buster Keaton Society hold its convention...Keaton said he learned the ... |
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Buster Keaton: Homage to the Master; PBS' Worthy Look Back at a King of Comedy
...Ignoring the contribution Buster Keaton made to American culture...what comes through in Keaton's work is brilliance...even genius. "Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow...Time turns craft into art. Keaton's ... |
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The Balloon of Equilibrium: Symmetry, Structures, and Narrative Authority in...
I. Buster Ludens Like God, Buster Keaton, in the films that were...Blacksmith exemplifies Keaton's concern for design...symmetry, and order in his art, and our need for them...Narrative Closure in Buster ... |
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Buster Keaton revisited, redundantly
Buster Keaton Tempest in a Flat HatBy Edward...Press. $26.95. Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat is...and on a different scale, Keaton was a master filmmaker whose...businessmen uninterested in his art. It's a familiar ... |
 "Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA)")
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Celebrating Buster Keaton, 1993-2007
...every autumn. The fans of Buster Keaton gathered once again in...and, of course, the Keaton Museum. Hence, the fans...Thomas H. Bowlus Fine Arts Center, where silent...become regulars at the Keaton Celebration. Originally... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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The classic genius of Buster Keaton remembered
...rain pelted down on Buster Keaton's head, but...where he threw a party. Keaton not only gives D.W...perfect accompaniment to Keaton's frozen, fatalistic...down upon the oblivious Keaton -- but an open window...turned stoicism into an ... |
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Keaton's leap: self-projection and autobiography in film.(Buster Keaton)
...the director and actor Buster Keaton plays a young movie projectionist...delight, respectively, as Keaton performs the impossible...early cinema audience. Keaton's leap moves in the...and filmgoers. The art cinema movement developed... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: CBSO's bumper bonanza for Buster buffs; Buster Keaton/CBSO Symphony...
...but for me watching two Buster Keaton classics with live orchestral...gratitude the comprehensive Keaton season staged by Birmingham Arts Lab back in the 1970s, but...Week revealed the range of Keaton's genius. Where One Week... |
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