ANDERSON — Before actors like Tom Cruise and Jackie Chan were scaling buildings, there was Buster Keaton. Keaton, a silent film-era superstar, performed death-defying stunts. His most notable involved ...
On October 4, 1895, future silent film star Buster Keaton, known as “The Great Stone Face,” was born in Piqua, Kansas.
The deadpan, the daring stunts, the clockwork timing… Buster Keaton turned silence into a symphony. These hand-picked lines pull back the curtain on how the Stone Face built gags, avoided shortcuts, ...