http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton Focusing on the the life and movies of Buster Keaton, "the great stone face" Wed, 20 May 2009 23:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Navigator is considered to be one of Buster Keaton's best films, and it's easy to see why.  In The Navigator, Buster Keaton plays the part of Rollo Treadway, a young man who is rich, but without purpose in his life.  He decides to propose to his girlfriend, who rejects ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/the-navigator/ In a very funny epiosde of The Twilight Zone, Buster Keaton stars as Woodrow Mulligan, a grumpy janitor living in the year 1890 - as Rod Serling says in the introduction to the episode: Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/once-upon-a-time/ Editorial review of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, courtesy of Amazon.com [caption id="attachment_65" align="alignright" width="200" caption="A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton"][/caption] "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!" Those words from the opening ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum/ Unlike most of his silent film contemporaries, there are a wide selection of movie posters and photographs of Buster Keaton, the great stone face. Buster Keaton Performing Art Print Buy at AllPosters.com Colorized photo of Buster Keaton from one of his silent film Le Cameraman with Buster Keaton Giclee Print Buy at AllPosters.com French poster for ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/buster-keaton-posters/ Buster Keaton's Pie Throwing The art of making and throwing them as told by Buster Keaton. Ironically, even though most people associate pie throwing with silent film comedies, Buster Keaton never took a pie in the face in any of his silent films - and he only threw a pie once (at ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/buster-keaton-on-pie-throwing/ This is a direct transcript from a section devoted to Buster Keaton in a 1949 article in Life Magazine by James Agee. It was written while Keaton was still alive and before the rediscovery of the majority of his films. Comedies Greatest Era, By James Agee - originally published in Life ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/comedies-greatest-era-the-great-stone-face/ Wife Forgives Buster Keaton After he "Kidnaps" Two Sons, By Janet Burden - originally published in Movie Classic, June 1932 Natalie Talmadge Keaton has police stop comedian, after he takes youngsters on forbidden plane trip - Buster kids away separation, but claims he is still boss. Buster kidded divorce rumors by having ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/wife-forgives-buster-keaton-after-he-kidnaps-two-songs/ Buster Keaton's Entry in the 1923/24 Blue Book [Please note the misprint in the list of Keaton's released films. "The Ghost" should read "The Goat"! There is also a discrepancy here and between Keaton's telling of the Pickway hurrican incident.] Young as he is, Buster Keaton has seen much of the face ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/buster-keatons-entry-in-the-192324-blue-book/ Buster Keaton Can Smile After Business Hours, by Dorothy Day - originally published in the New York Telegraph on October 21, 1923 I went to interview Buster Keaton with one ambition in mind--I would make him smile just to see if he could. He can. He favored me with a broad ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/buster-keaton-can-smile-after-business-hours/ Low Comedy as a High Art, by Malcolm H. Oettinger - originally published in Picture-Play Magazine, March 1923 For a long time it was considered a breach of critical etiquette, if there be such a thing, to write of any one engaged in such a lowly sphere as that of comedy. ... http://www.clown-ministry.com/buster-keaton/39/