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Article: Buster Keaton: Homage to the Master; PBS' Worthy Look Back at a King of Comedy
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- The Washington Post
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- November 18, 1987
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Ignoring the contribution Buster Keaton made to American culture,
and to the world's disposition, would be like overlooking Mark Twain.
Maybe it would be worse. In film clip after film clip on a PBS
special tonight, what comes through in Keaton's work is brilliance,
greatness, even genius.
"Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow," the latest entry in the
extraordinary "American Masters" series, traces Keaton's work and
life with excerpts from his great silent comedies, interviews with
associates, and comments Keaton made to a Canadian interviewer in
1964.
There are more priceless gems contained in these three hours of
television than there are displayed at Tiffany's and Harry Winston's
put ...