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From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Keaton, Sennet,etc.
Message-ID: <368@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 02:11:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: harvard.368
Posted: Sat Sep 21 02:11:13 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:36:27 EDT
References: <11094@rochester.UUCP> <6683@ucla-cs.ARPA> <837@udenva.UUCP> <6860@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak)
Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard
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Summary: 

In article <6860@ucla-cs.ARPA> reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>... Keaton probably never slipped on a banana peel or
>threw a pie in any of his films.

Although I TOTALLY agree with everything you said in this article,
I had to correct this one error.  There is a pie throwing scene in
at least one Keaton film.  It's one of the earlier ones with Fatty
Arbuckle.  In fact, looking in my "Buster Keaton Autobiography" I
believe it was his very first film ever - "The Butcher Boy"/1917.
Actually, now that I think of it, I think they were throwing flour
bags at each other - oh well, same idea.

Incidentally, the Orson Welles Cinema here in Cambridge had a Keaton
festival last year.  I'd never seen any Keaton before and I was hooked
as soon as I saw the first one.  I went to absolutely every film in
the fest (3/night changed every 2-3 days for about two months!  I was
half blind but ecstatic with laughter!)

Bill Tomczak@harvard.{ARPA, UUCP}


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