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(3.88) | Keine | 'Tracing Keaton's beginnings in vaudeville and how he eventually applied that form's traits to cinema, McPherson creates an excellent portrait of a formidable talent, also addressing the private demons that accelerated his eventual slide.' Empire 'The author, rather like his subject, has the knack of sketching a poignant moment using minimum of sentimental flannel.' Sunday Telegraph 'McPherson wins one over because of his loving fan's attention to, and lively evocation of, the core of Keaton's achievement.' Telegraph 'Graceful and charming... McPherson's account is animated by the same sort of colour and vitality as Buster's best work.' Scotsman… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Our hero came from Nowhere -- he wasn't going Anywhere and got kicked off Somewhere.
The High Sign(1921)  All of my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, "Look at the poor dope, wilya?"
Buster Keaton The empty seats get you.
Buster Keaton Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from pending my whole life as an actor. there have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, "Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd."
Buster Keaton Roscoe loved all the world, and the whole world love him in those days.
Buster Keaton I sometimes wonder if the world will ever seem as carefree and exciting a place as it did to us in Hollywood during 1919 and the early twenties. We were all young, the air in southern California was like wine. Our business was also young and growing like nothing ever seen.
Buster Keaton But the golden age of comedy was just beginning. The whole world wanted to laugh as never before, and Hollywood had the clowns to do the job.
Buster Keaton When we made pictures, we ate, slept, and dreamed them.
Buster Keaton "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show."
A familiar-looking theatergoer in The Playhouse (1921) Love is the unchanging axis on which the World revolves.
The Three Ages (1923) It is the audience that gives us the answer.
Buster Keaton In the silent days we could try anything at all, and did.
Buster Keaton Railroads are a great prop. You can do some awful wild things with railroads.
Buster Keaton It all started with Schenck taking Lou Anger away from me.
Buster Keaton His mind was too orderly for our harum-scarum, catch-as-catch can, gag-gabbing method. Our way of operating would have seemed hopelessly mad to him. but, believe me it was the only way. Somehow some of the frenzy and hysteria of our breathless, impromptu comedy got into our movies and made them exciting.
Buster Keaton on Irving Thalberg Dumb show is best for screen people, if they must appear in public.
Buster Keaton I've had a few dull moments and not too many sad and defeated ones.
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. I am sitting in an auditorium, watching a woman rip the lining out of an expensive fur felt fedora and dunk it into a bucket of water. (Introduction) Friday, October 4, 1895. In Egypt, the Nile runs unusually high; Great Britain is experiencing uncommonly cold weather after a period of uncommon warmth; somewhere in Canada, a railroad superintendent on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Line mysteriously disappears between stops; four men fall off a rope bridge some forty feet onto a riverbed in Sing Sing, New York; two Massachusetts balloonatics are stranded aloft when their guide suddenly collapses. | |
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Keine ▾Buchbeschreibungen 'Tracing Keaton's beginnings in vaudeville and how he eventually applied that form's traits to cinema, McPherson creates an excellent portrait of a formidable talent, also addressing the private demons that accelerated his eventual slide.' Empire 'The author, rather like his subject, has the knack of sketching a poignant moment using minimum of sentimental flannel.' Sunday Telegraph 'McPherson wins one over because of his loving fan's attention to, and lively evocation of, the core of Keaton's achievement.' Telegraph 'Graceful and charming... McPherson's account is animated by the same sort of colour and vitality as Buster's best work.' Scotsman ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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