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jmtaylor1981's review against another edition
4.0
"A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny."
Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion Meade follows one of the greatest comedic actors from his meager beginnings in Vaudeville, his friendship and pairing with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, through the hight of his early career in the 1920s and 1930s, his failed marriages, damaged reputation and unwillingness to stay sober, to his "third act"...the rebirth of his career later in life.
Meade does a good job in telling Keaton's story. Some say she was unfair and seemed to dislike Keaton but I didn't get that impression. She seemed fair and told the story with little bias.
I've seen several of Keaton's features and a even more of his shorts (The Goat being a personal favorite) and I'm mesmerized each time I watch them. His talent, his technique and his gags are what makes him a legend. Meade does well in capturing the genius behind the hilarity.
Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion Meade follows one of the greatest comedic actors from his meager beginnings in Vaudeville, his friendship and pairing with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, through the hight of his early career in the 1920s and 1930s, his failed marriages, damaged reputation and unwillingness to stay sober, to his "third act"...the rebirth of his career later in life.
Meade does a good job in telling Keaton's story. Some say she was unfair and seemed to dislike Keaton but I didn't get that impression. She seemed fair and told the story with little bias.
I've seen several of Keaton's features and a even more of his shorts (The Goat being a personal favorite) and I'm mesmerized each time I watch them. His talent, his technique and his gags are what makes him a legend. Meade does well in capturing the genius behind the hilarity.
anhedonia_n_anomie's review against another edition
Full of false information gossip. Author also just doesn't seem to like Keaton much—along with a lot of other people in early Hollywood—and her truth deficit comes off as bias.
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