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  Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton was born the youngest of seven children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
When Keaton was cast as the caped crusader in Tim Burton¹s remake of Batman in 1989, no one thought he could play the part seriously, but critics were proved wrong when the film became the number one film of the year.
Keaton's next film was not until Christmas 1995, where he starred along with Geena Davis in Speechless, in which the two portrayed speech writers for competing political parties.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2779   (697 words)

  
 Keaton - Zelda Wiki - A Wikia wiki
Keatons are fictional fox characters that appear in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Keatons recognize each other by the sheen of their tails, as explained by the Keaton in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
The guard says that Keaton is a "popular character" and that all of his son's friends have a Keaton mask, and that his son wants one as well.
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 American Masters . Buster Keaton | PBS
By the age of three, Keaton joined the family's vaudeville act, which was renamed The Three Keatons.
For Keaton, as for many of the silent movie stars, the final straw was the advent of the talkies.
The sheer ability of his acrobatics astounded audiences who had become used to less sophisticated physical comedy, and by the 1960s, his films were returning to the theaters and he was being hailed as the greatest actor of the silent era.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/keaton_b.html   (893 words)

  
 Buster Keaton - MSN Encarta
Born Joseph Francis Keaton in Piqua, Kansas, he was the son of touring vaudeville performers, with whom he first appeared on stage at the age of three, continuing to perform with The Three Keatons for almost 20 years.
Keaton acclimated himself to the film medium, mastering its techniques and reveling in the opportunities they offered for creating unique comic effects.
By the mid-1930s, as Keaton faced increasing personal problems, he could only find work in mediocre films, and by the end of the decade he was reduced to playing minor roles and carrying out writing assignments.
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 Diane Keaton Relationships
Diane Keaton feels comfortable in an atmosphere that is open and experimental, and she has little taste for convention and tradition.
Keaton will do a lot of clearing and cleansing, if she can listen to what her feelings are telling her.
Diane Keaton has a very romantic, idealistic vision of love and may be disillusioned to discover that no real, flesh and blood human being ever quite lives up to her dream image of the "perfect love".
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Diane_Keaton.asp   (729 words)

  
 DEEP FOCUS: Buster Keaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keaton was born in the town of Piqua, Kansas, in 1895 as Joseph Francis Keaton.
In fact, there was a particular day during Keaton's first year of life when he had his finger caught in the wringer of a washing machine, got hit in the head by a brick, and got carried hundreds of feet through the air by a tornado that practically leveled his hometown.
Keaton was considered to be Charlie Chaplin's greatest rival as the king of silent comedies.
alumni.imsa.edu /~mitch/directors/keaton.html   (583 words)

  
 The Thrift Shop -- Buster Keaton
Keaton's character obviously had planned on getting a paper and finding a job, but he probably did not foresee the extreme difficulty he would find in actually reaching the help wanted section.
Keaton in fact was adamant about this, for he realized that comic business must never be unnecessarily fragmented in the editing if it is to be effective; rather, continuity must be preserved" (177).
Keaton, meanwhile, was forced to spend the first couple of reels of each film establishing his character.
www.metrogirl.com /thriftshop/keaton.html   (2582 words)

  
 Keaton Shorts
Keaton's is a cinema that is driven by a highly articulated style and a passing respect for the regulating realm of classical narration (just look at the command of narrative exposition, classical style and genre in a film like Our Hospitality [1923]).
Keaton's is a materialist cinema, so it is unsurprising that his films routinely address the 'materiality' of early twentieth century modernity and its impact upon the human body, mind and spatiality.
Keaton's view is very different as he regards and celebrates the cinema itself as such a technology or machine.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/01/13/keaton.html   (1352 words)

  
 Buster Keaton: The Beauty of Buster
Keaton's comedy is founded firmly on the principles of Newtonian physics, the invisible substructure that alone keeps the universe from simply flying apart in all directions.
Like the average person, Keaton's first impulse is to plug the hole where the water is coming in; he attempts the repair job with one of his wife's inedible pancakes.
All these hurtling objects, Keaton included, are forever colliding with one another, their paths intersecting, or narrowly avoiding intersecting, at comically opportune or tragicomically inopportune moments.
www.cinepad.com /busterk.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Master Keaton
According to the English description on the cover of the original manga, Keaton is Half Japanese and half English.
His only daughter Yuriko—who resembles Keaton's divorced wife (but to me she resembles Yawara)—is a mature and smart schoolgirl.
Keaton Taichi Hiraga is a dreamer whose dream is to dig up an ancient civilization on the Danube River.
www.ex.org /3.7/17-anime_masterkeaton.html   (742 words)

  
 Buster Keaton
The shorts Keaton made in the early twenties are warm-ups for his features, but they have exotic delights of their own.
Keaton spent a great deal of time and money to get the film exactly as he wanted it, and this care shows—it is meticulous in its period recreation.
In Keaton's case, the trajectory of events that led him from his own unit under Schenck to a prison-term contract at MGM is especially sickening.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/keaton.html   (3176 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Contract Buster)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buster Keaton didn't need a contractual obligation to preclude his "stone face" character from smiling in films, any more than Charlie Chaplin needed a clause requiring his Little Tramp character to wear a derby and oversize shoes, or Arthur Marx had to be prohibited from allowing his Harpo character to speak.
Once Buster Keaton did lose his say in the matter by becoming a contract player with MGM, such a clause would have been unnecessary, as he was obligated to appear in whatever film properties MGM put him in, and to act appropriately for whatever roles they chose for him.
MGM's putting a "no smiling" clause in Keaton's contract would have been superfluous, akin to a football player's signing a contract mandating that he adhere to NFL rules — whether or not a player's contract explicitly requires him to follow the rules of the game is irrelevant, because the referees will.
www.snopes.com /movies/actors/keaton.htm   (704 words)

  
 Great Filmmakers: Buster Keaton
All of Keaton's films were produced by Joseph Schenck (pronounced "skehnk") up to 1928, and all but one of his most influential and important films were produced during this time.
Quite deliberately Keaton grounded most of his features in reality (with some exceptions), and paced them so that they built gradually to the final reel, where most of the gags were.
Keaton surrendered his freedom for security, and signed with a studio that did not understand his talents.
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 Diane Keaton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970.
Keaton reprised her role four years later in the sequel, as a woman who becomes pregnant in middle age at the same time as her daughter.
Keaton's involvement with Beatty also made her a regular subject of tabloid magazines and media at the time, a role to which she was unaccustomed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diane_Keaton   (4061 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Buster Keaton Collection (The Cameraman / Spite Marriage / Free & Easy): DVD: Richard Alexander,Sidney ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The predictable results are unworthy of a Keaton film, but he does shine in several hilarious sequences, such as a disastrous turn as a bit player in his soon-to-be-wife's stage dramas.
Keaton's first film for MGM, made in 1928, is considered one of his funniest masterworks and offers up a feast of visual gags.
Being Keaton's first talkie the soundtrack is an essential part of the film and showcases what was to be Buster's downfall, the move away from visual to verbal gags and the transformation of his character from resourceful self-sufficiency to a hapless boob who no longer gets the girl.
www.amazon.com /Buster-Keaton-Collection/dp/B00049QQ78   (4407 words)

  
 PART I: A Vaudeville Childhood
He reputedly made his first appearance on stage crawling on from the wings at the age of nine months (one improbable clipping says it was the day after he was born), to the audience's delight and his father's surprise.
He toured the United States with his father and mother, performing their ever-changing act for 17 years, an act that generally started with Joe Keaton explaining to the audience how one should bring up a child while Buster behind him was wreaking havoc.
Most children break a leg or chip a tooth in more sedate surroundings, but Keaton's worst injuries in these years seem to have come from having been in a train wreck, which left him with bruises and cuts on his face and put him out of work for a week.
www.busterkeaton.com /bio1.htm   (2410 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In it Keaton heard an unexpected thing: his beloved hip hop breaks, sped up and fused with the textures of rave and techno.
By the close of 2003, Keaton scaled back his work with The Usual Suspects and ended his involvement with Universal Project, intent on cultivating his own abilities in the studio as a solo producer.
Amongst a raft of scheduled releases on labels such as Violence, Metalheadz, Quarantine, Freak, and the mighty Renegade Hardware, Keaton will be introducing his own label in 2004 with the intention of cementing his position as a solo producer on the top shelf of drum and bass.
www.violencerecordings.com /artists/keaton_iframe.html   (623 words)

  
 Buster Keaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With creative freedom Keaton was free to make some of the greatest silent comedies of all time.
Keaton worked until his death in 1966, sometimes doing gags for MGM and making television appearences.
Buster Keaton will always be regarded as one of the true comic genious' of all time and there will never be another Buster Keaton.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Studio/4083/BusterKeaton.html   (249 words)

  
 Echo Location | Artists | Keaton
In it Keaton heard something totally unexpected: his beloved hip hop breaks, sped up and fused with the textures of rave and techno.
The full spectrum of the sound of drum and bass that Keaton explored as an aspiring DJ has remained a steady theme of Keaton’s output as a producer, apparent across his discography.
In 2005 Keaton made the brave decision of moving to the US and throwing all his fresh creativity in a collaborative album project alongside Hive, Gridlok and Echo.
www.echolocation.biz /artists/keaton/index.php   (592 words)

  
 Keaton's Barbecue Inc.
Keaton's Barbecue is different from all the rest, prepared to serve you best.
Keaton's Original World Famous Barbecue sauce is designed to wake up the flavor in all meats and is designed to meet your culinary needs.
Keaton's is a product you'll cherish for a life time.
www.keatonsoriginalbbq.com   (165 words)

  
 Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
Joseph Frank Keaton, nicknamed Buster after a remark the famous magician Harry Houdini is alleged to have made when the six-month-old baby took a fall down a flight of stairs, was born in a boarding house in Piqua, Kansas, and entered show business at the age of three performing with his father and mother as
Keaton had now permanently abandoned broad comedy for more subtle gags in which the humor was allowed to build and in which his stoic sensitivity could shine forth through his seemingly unexpressive face.
With television and a new interest in silent films, his fame began to revive, and by the time of his death from lung cancer, he was already being classed with Chaplin as the greatest of the silent clowns.
www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/wparrill/Reviews/keatonbuster.html   (648 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Keaton: Books: Rudi Blesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Read KEATON by Blesh as a companion to "Buster Keaton Remembered" (for the later years) and "Buster Keaton" by David Robinson (which accurately describes Buster's films).
Because Rudi Blesh's "Keaton" was published over 30 years ago and out of print, it's best to check the public library first, because trying to find it in a used bookstore may take till the 5th of never.
Keaton was saying that I missed a bus stop and had to walk a half mile to work because of it.
www.amazon.com /Keaton-Rudi-Blesh/dp/0025115707   (1381 words)

  
 keatonbeachhome
Keaton Beach offers opportunities to participate in amateur sporting events, fishing, hunting, scalloping, bird watching, boating and rest and relaxation.
Keaton Beach is located in "The Big Bend" on the Gulf Coast of Florida, which is part of Taylor County's "Nature Coast".
Keaton Beach is 17 miles south of Perry and 17 miles north of Steinhatchee on CR 361, the "Scenic Coastal Loop".
www.keatonbeach.org   (557 words)

  
 Joseph Francis Keaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I would love to devote an entire site to this man myself, but there are several good ones out there already and I would prefer to spend what free time I do have watching his movies.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow- If you've never seen a Buster Keaton movie and you need an introductory course, this is a three part series done by Thames Television.
Keaton was the master of the romantic comedy, before there was such a thing.
www.smirk.com /jim/keaton.html   (472 words)

  
 Family Ties
The boy with the briefcase was Alex P. Keaton, a competitive and uncompromising, baby-faced conservative whose absurdly hard-nosed platitudes seemed the antithesis of his comfortable, middle class, white Midwestern upbringing.
Many audiences, however, were laughing sympathetically, and Alex Keaton emerged as a model of the clean-cut, determined, yet human entrepreneur.
During the 1984 season, a baby boy joined the Keaton family, and was played by three separate children, as--by the next season--he quickly developed into a toddler.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/familyties/familyties.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Michael Keaton Trivia -- notstarring.com
Keaton was turned down for the role of William.
Keaton was considered for the role of Kazinski.
Keaton was originally cast in the role of Tom Baxter but was replaced by Jeff Daniels.
www.notstarring.com /actors/keaton-michael   (284 words)

  
 The General (1927)
The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made.
Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck).
Realistic stunts (without stuntmen to double for Keaton), uncontrived, free-flowing set-pieces, non-stop motion, and a preoccupation with authenticity make parts of the film a visual history of the American Civil War, with each shot looking like a Matthew Brady photograph.
www.filmsite.org /gene.html   (2383 words)

  
 Keaton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keaton (IPA pronunciation: ['kiːtən]) as a surname was derived from a place name meaning "shed town" in Old English.
Master Keaton, a manga and anime about the adventures of a fictional archaeologist and insurance investigator, Taichi Hiraga-Keaton
Keaton (The Legend of Zelda series), a race of fictional fox-like creatures from the Legend of Zelda series of video games
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keaton   (163 words)

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