Review: Two Recent Biographies of Buster Keaton
Keaton was as much a technical innovator as he was a comic, and Curtis’ book goes into painstaking detail on how these effects were achieved. (The revolving house was built on a turntable whose control belt was buried in dirt and grass.) No less important, “Buster Keaton” nicely corrects the perception that Keaton’s life is …
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