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Buster Keaton
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Buster Keaton only returned one time in his life to Piqua. Although he was never a resident, the people of Piqua are proud to know that their town remains a small part of a great actor's life.
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The Boat is literally and figuratively a vehicle for the silent film comic genius Buster Keaton. One of his finest short films The Boat is one of those tales where everything goes wrong.
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Produced shortly after the opening of Keaton's own studio in January 1920, The High Sign was scrapped after Keaton decided it was not worthy to stand as his first effort. Its release was postponed until April 1921 (Meade, 93-95).
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Keaton was institutionalized for alcohol abuse. In 1933 he married his nurse, Mae Scriven, during an alcoholic binge about which he afterwards claimed to remember nothing (Keaton himself later called that period an "alcoholic blackout"). Scriven herself would later claim that she did not even know Keaton's real first name until after the marriage. When they divorced in 1936, it was again at great financial cost to Keaton.
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In 1933, Buster married Mae Scriven - his nurse, during an alcoholic binge that he claimed to remember nothing about afterwards (Keaton himself later called that period an "alcoholic blackout"). When they divorced in 1936, she took half of everything they owned — half of their dining-room set, half of each table and chair set, half of their books - and Buster's favorite St. Bernard, Elmer.
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Keaton the director, the "complete auteur", is the personification of musical precision when it comes to the arrangement of gags, stunts and chase sequences, which are unequalled until this day. His conception of cinema was disarmingly naturalistic, poetry was always derived from reality. Still, his films ... upheld the idea of the romantic individual in the midst of the machines, cities and modes of transportation of all the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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