Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donna Reed Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.)* Cheops-faced Clown Buster Keaton makes one of his rare appearances outside old movies. He plays a Santa Claus who puts hospitalized children in stitches...
...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...
Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry...
...Buster Keaton Story (Paramount). The policeman circled the object suspiciously. Its face looked like something that had crawled up through the collar and died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...
Such was the comedy of Buster Keaton, the granddaddy of deadpan and one of the four or five masters of the sight gag produced by Hollywood during the silent days. In the sequences adapted from the old two-reelers, these gags prove as good as ever they were, and provide the public with about ten minutes' worth of belly-shaking fun. But when this earnest little biopus turns from Keaton's silent comedies to his noisy domestic tragedies, the guffaws turn to unmitigated guff. Donald O'Connor, who plays the title role, does pretty well with...