Buster Keaton in His Own Time

Buster Keaton &quote;can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair,&quote; wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic &quote;theater of the absurd,&quote; speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again!