The Mythical Monkey's essay about Buster Keaton and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle reads even better when one of the best silent movi...

I've been on the road for most of February and only this morning heard about the Buster Keaton Blogathon ongoing at Silent-ology . I co...

I think I reprint this post every year ... "There is no Garbo, there is no Dietrich, there is only Louise Brooks!" Or so curator H...

Stealing is a time honored tradition among comedians, and God bless them, I say—thanks to their thieving ways, we can directly compare comed...

To see my awards for 1917, click here . To read about Mary Pickford, click here . And to read about the Chaplin Mutuals, click here . The ...

I worked pretty hard in July and August, not only on a series of posts about 1917 (which I am finishing up this week) but also on some unrel...