Word: busters
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Special Showings: Buster Keaton's The Navigator is playing for free at sundown tonight at the MFA. Gutman Library is showing Terry-Thomas's hysterical Make Mine Mink Thursday night...
Sherlock Junior, a 1924 Buster Keaton comedy, is being shown tonight as part of the Museum of Fine Art's summer-long tribute to the great stone face. Of all the comic stars of the silent screen, Keaton was the funniest, the most sensitive, the most intelligent. He is, above all, too good to lose, and the MFA deserves praise for resurrecting his genius. Tonight's film is about "a humble movie projectionist who is transformed into a master detective thanks to the magic of the silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like...
...comic style. The nimblest of all is Dale, a versatile actor, British TV comic and composer (Georgy Girl). In his facial contortions and his airborne, aisle-hopping feats, he is a direct descendant of the great physical clowns-unforgettables like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. It does not require much prophetic vision to foresee that Jim Dale will share the same renown some day. · T.E-K...
...soon discovered from talking with many people who visited me backstage that this was only because most of them had been unfamiliar with the term. What they had not realized was that here in America they had seen some of the greatest pantomimists of the century--Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy...those superb artists who created in the silent movie era, without benefit of the spoken word, a whole world of human prototypes in humorous, pathetic, tragic or hilarious situations in life--with which their audiences identified themselves...
Brought up on the greatest artists of the silent screen--Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harry Langdon--Marcel Marceau was enchanted at an early age by the challenge of imitating the animate as well as the inanimate. He calls Chaplin his greatest inspiration: "To be capable of expressing a wealth of emotion in one look, one gesture, to be able to interpret the slightest nuance of the soul--was not that a prodigious ambition...