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The Importance of Roscoe Keaton
Keaton hated the fatty name. He was more just kind of a great performer than he was like the clearly defined type. The greatest injustice that's been done him is that he's vaguely remembered as this kind of pervy rapist and murderer, right? It seems like from everything we know now about this woman who died at a party that he threw in 1921, no one was raped or murdered. But to reduce it greatly, it felt like the core of the thing was there was this growing moral panic around the movies.