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Under Durham's tutelage, Joe had 40 amateur fights and lost only one, to a 300-lb. behemoth named Buster Mathis in the 1964 Olympic trials. When Mathis suffered an injury, Joe went to Tokyo in his stead and won the heavyweight Gold Medal?even though he had to fight through three rounds of his final match with a broken thumb. Returning home penniless and with a heavy cast on his hand, he was unable to work for six months and had to live off his wife's $60-a-week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took...
...reasons that even the TeleSessions hosts don't fully understand, two people seldom talk at once, interruptions are rare and discussions generally follow a polite, orderly sequence. Among the specialty groups meeting regularly are gourmet cooks, advanced photographers and small-business presidents. Groups of science-fiction buffs. Buster Keaton fans and wine connoisseurs will soon be on the line...
Keaton once confessed that there were two of him, "Me and my understudy, Buster II. Buster II could do anything -play and never get tired, be rich and handsome, never grow old. And write checks until the cows came home." Buster I died worn and neglected in 1966. Buster II is alive and funny, in the best film festival of any year...
That face can be seen in a remarkable Buster Keaton retrospective soon to go on a U.S. tour. In it are 21 two-reelers and ten features, many unseen for decades. The show, produced by Film Curator Raymond Rohauer, began one afternoon in 1954, when Keaton, then 59, invited Rohauer to inspect his garage in Los Angeles. "I want to put some electric trains in here," said the man who had never grown up. "You want this stuff?" The "stuff" turned out to be Keaton's masterpieces, filmed on ancient-and explosive-nitrate stock. "I begged...
...Keaton had a coat of arms, that phrase would have been his motto. His father, Vaudevillian Joe Keaton, took Buster into the family act in 1898 at the age of three as "the human mop." Pop literally swept the floor with him. The kid became a great stone pebble, and made hazard a part of his persona...