“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of the beginning.” ~ Martin Scorsese
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Archives for Buster Keaton
International Buster Keaton Convention 2015
I’m off to the 2015 International Buster Keaton Convention in Muskegon, Michigan
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Like Any Other Monday: Review/Interview
I was happy to join The Miramichi Reader for an interview about aspects of writing Like Any Other Monday. Please follow the link for the review/interview.
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Banana Peel
A recent visit with an author friend led to the topic of researching bananas.
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The Butcher Boy ~ April 23, 1917
“Spitting flour, he leaps up and continues with the mayhem, swinging brooms, tossing pies, dodging flour bombs and climbing the wall shelves, throwing everything within reach. It is chaos, exactly as he loves it.” ~ Binnie Brennan (Like Any Other Monday)
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Slapstick Outreach
Slapstick outreach with new friends.
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Billie Carleton, 1916 Cover Girl
Long before there was a cover design for Like Any Other Monday,
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Youthful responses
“Perhaps the most revolting of all the vaudeville acts was Hadji Ali. The Great Regurgitator, as he was known, could at will swallow then spew forth a series of coloured handkerchiefs…” ~ Binnie Brennan (Acadia University talk)
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Mission Accomplished
I just love it when someone under thirty “gets it” about Buster Keaton and his silent film comedy brothers and sisters speeddating oslo.
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One Week at the Library
May I just say what a thrill it is
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