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...human condition. Under Chaplin's direction, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper had a new career as a lace tablecloth. There have been more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring as many laughs from an audience. But no one ever touched Chaplin's mute grace; no one ever approached the lyricism of his Eternal Immigrant...
Director Federico Fellini, "and there were aspects of Popeye and Wimpy in Buster Keaton." Fellini, who began his career in the '30s as a writer of adventure and science-fiction comics, has been an appassionato of the fumetti,*Italy's comic books, ever since he was a ragazzino, and admits that the comics probably gave something to his own moviemaking. Says he: "A sense of the comic and the humorous in my films, wonder, and a feeling for the fantastic-maybe these came from the comics I read as a little...
Precision and Balance. Chance's resemblance to Voltaire's Candide ("We must cultivate our garden") and even to Buster Keaton's deadpan clown is fairly obvious. Despite the implausibility of the plot, the precision and balance of Kosinski's laconic prose, and his ability to animate a character who actually has no character at all, make Being There much more than the heavyhanded satiric fairy tale it might appear to be. More than an antihero, Chance is a non-character-the ultimate spectator-who reflects Kosinski's concern about the future of free will...
...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...