source: If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

We love Buster Keaton movies so much around here, so this photo took my breath away. I'd seen photos of him before from when he was old, but I'd never seen that famous old stone face feature such a dour look. Imagine the stories he could have told you over a mug of beer.

My favorite Buster Keaton short is "One Week," and one of its best scenes is here (not necessarily because of Keaton, but the lovely Sybil Seely):

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At some point during all this auto-industry bailout talk, I remembered my favorite all-time silent comedy short---it doesn't star Chaplin, Keaton, Arbuckle or even Roach, but the venerable but nearly-forgotten Snub Pollard as a wacky inventor in 1923 ready to save everyone driving Detroit's newfangled machines from the greedy oil men. His own "car" is extremely fuel efficient: it doesn't use any fuel. Nor does it create any emissions. I sincerely hope that some of the CEOs of the Big Three watch this video over the next few weeks to get some ideas.

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