tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post4021247559576709833..comments2023-12-24T18:29:26.864-05:00Comments on BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Keaton at Charlie ParkerBookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post-31698153838085557332008-12-18T07:02:00.000-05:002008-12-18T07:02:00.000-05:00that's a fantastic photo, very moody. I tried...that's a fantastic photo, very moody. I tried to get my neice and two nephews into Buster Keaton a short while ago - I'd already successfully hooked them on Laurel & Hardy many many years before - but, alas, it was not to be. they sat there during the whole of THE GENERAL with bored looks on their faces, not a snicker or a guffaw amongst them. not enough product placement, I guess. I don't know. <BR/><BR/>regards the last post, I haven't seen FILM, but I went through a phase in my late teens/early twenties of reading and seeing a whole lot of Beckett stuff. not sure why, maybe because I thought it was something I HAD TO READ AND SEE, but he was never really my bag, to be honest, although I remember seeing Billie Whitelaw performing HAPPY DAYS in a grotty little out-of-the-way theatre bar, and thinking it was the mutt's nuts. as for the comedian angle, I remember that Max Wall - a popular variety star from the 'sixties & 'seventies in the UK - did a recording of KRAPP'S LAST TAPE for the BBC in the early 'eighties which was pretty powerful stuff, for the time.<BR/><BR/>ah, Beckett, 'ey? there's another one for the young 'uns.joe ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654300765962440903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post-83843116509494564932008-12-17T19:28:00.000-05:002008-12-17T19:28:00.000-05:00Hmmm... Got those new teeth. Maybe we should look ...Hmmm... Got those new teeth. Maybe we should look at new glasses. Missed that light.Bookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post-27726721744101000592008-12-17T19:27:00.000-05:002008-12-17T19:27:00.000-05:00Dear, I suspect that this was a commercial or TV s...Dear, I suspect that this was a commercial or TV show given the large light in the back of the shot. JMHORene' Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11571951354157602146noreply@blogger.com