My Wonderful World of Slapstick (Da Capo Paperback)
Contributors: Dwight MacDonald (Introduction)
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: April 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780306801785
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Acting & Auditioning; General; Biography & Autobiography-General; Keaton, Buster; Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; 1895-1966; Biography; Comedians; Keaton, Buster,; Motion picture actors and actresses; United States
First sentence: Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask" On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful" I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.