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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Keaton, Sennett, etc.
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 10:20:09 EDT
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> From:	ucla-cs!reiher	(Peter Reiher)

>I suppose if one's taste is exclusively to Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, and
>Woody Allen, biting verbal wit, then one might not enjoy classic silent comedy.
>Otherwise, I do not understand how anyone could fail to appreciate it,
>and you are the first person I have ever heard say that he has actually
>seen it and didn't like it.  I won't argue preferences (Chaplin vs. Keaton),
>nor a dislike of an individual performer, but, taken as a whole, the great
>silent comedies of the 1920s are, in my opinion, the funniest films ever
>made.

Well, mark me down for another one who cannot appreciate the silent comedies.
I like all kinds of comedy, from the slapstick of the Three Stooges to the
droll, intellectual wit of Woody Allen, but for some reason I have been unable
to fathom, I've never been able to warm to any of the classic film comedians
(Keaton, Chaplin, etc.) or comedy teams (Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, etc.).

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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