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James Curtis' new biography of Buster Keaton

By Joe Donahue

Published March 4, 2022 at 11:10 AM EST

From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis comes a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of Buster Keaton - a person who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern, and irresistible today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago.

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