Buster Keaton: A Bridge Between Modes of Performance

When did you become a Buster Keaton fan? I went through an obsessive period, maybe freshman or sophomore year where I decided that homework was a waste of time. Three movies every night is too many movies for a night. The wild success of this period was I came very close to getting kicked out of high school several times. He's just such a bridge between so many modes of performance that came before or things like the comic strip we were just talking about.

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