{"id":3001,"date":"2005-05-18T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2010-07-12T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T00:23:51","slug":"the-little-boy-who-could-not-be-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The little boy who could not be damaged&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/12\/AR2005051201386.html\">A wonderful review of a new biography of Buster Keaton<\/a>.  Sounds very inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Drabelle, the reviewer, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike so many other silent-era comedians, Keaton relied less on slapstick than on ingenuity, crack stunt work (almost always by the star himself) and surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The apotheosis of the Keaton approach is the fluidity of &#8220;Sherlock, Jr.,&#8221; in which a projectionist dreams his way into the film he is showing. It all looks effortless, but the trickery required meticulous preparation. Keaton&#8217;s entry into the movie is followed by a series of vignettes in which the background undergoes wild changes while he remains immobile. To effect this, the crew had to measure him &#8220;from multiple angles using surveying instruments.&#8221; As McPherson sums it up, Keaton had &#8220;filmed the impossible.&#8221; &#8220;Sherlock, Jr.&#8221; and the longer, more textured &#8220;The General&#8221; are the summits of his career, perhaps of silent comedy itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful review of a new biography of Buster Keaton. Sounds very inspiring. Dennis Drabelle, the reviewer, writes: Unlike so many other silent-era comedians, Keaton relied less on slapstick than on ingenuity, crack stunt work (almost always by the star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18765,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/18765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}