Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...
...subtle genius of Chaplin's tramp or of Keaton's mote in the eye of an incomprehensible universe lay beyond the range of Laurel and Hardy. But they were lovable caricatures of the dolt in Everyman, a bow and fiddle striking delightfully dissonant chords in a mad world. Witless innocence was their hallmark. It purifies even a 20's sequence in which they are pursued, clad in underdrawers, by a pair of gorgon wives toting a shotgun to avenge some fancied infidelity-as they round the corner of an apartment house, a shotgun blast brings dozens...
...nuts-and-bolts field of truck selling, Ford has chosen gentle Silent Film Veteran Buster Keaton as its pitchman. In one new commercial, Keaton fills up a truck with furniture only to find that he has left out a live lion...
...When Keaton loads him on another truck, the lion drives off. Buster is last seen in hot pursuit, his legs whirring away at silent-movie speed...
...startling but quite predictable reason that Film scores is its sole actor: Buster Keaton, 68, who was known to generations of silent-filmgoers as the funny man who never smiled. And Keaton is the movie's toughest critic. "I don't know what the picture's about," he complains. "It's so goddam arty I'm surprised the audience didn't walk...