The General At The Kennedy Center, Saturday April 4, 2009, 8 p.m.
Speak of the devil, the Kennedy Center in our very own Washington, D.C., will be showing Buster Keaton's The General this Saturday, April 4, at 8 p.m. The National Symphony Orchestra will perform the accompanying score.
Tickets are on sale now and range in price from $20 to $65.
Now hopefully this little announcement will buy me some time—I need another day to finish my essay on Charlie Chaplin ...
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
2 comments:
the $20 seats are sold out, but they're still available in spots ["here, Spot!"] for $25 and up . . . .
Wow. After 82 years, Keaton is still packing them in.
I hope you're feeling as spritely when you hit 82, Don.
Oh, wait, you are 82 ...
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