Summer movie season continues — All month, everywhere not located under a rock.
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Music Interview: The Art of Storm ‘n’ Twang — Writing Music for Buster Keaton Silents
By Bill Marx Steamboat Bill Jr. is my personal favorite among Buster Keaton’s classic silent comedies, and the image (above) of Buster holding an upturned umbrella (this is a publicity still—in the movie he wields the useless brolly during a rampaging storm) is one of the movie’s greatest sight gags, an indelible image of the […]