The Boston Globe, March 4th, 1988
Buster Keaton was always an outsider. While Charlie Chaplin went for the quick laugh or the easy tear, Keaton never asked for sympathy and disdained the quick gag. While Chaplin would attract attention by gnawing on an old shoe in "The Gold Rush," Keaton always seemed uncomfortable on center stage. Perhaps it was because, at the age of 3, he was billed as "The Human Mop" -- his father heaved him around the vaudeville stage and then tossed the stone-faced tot into the orchestra pit. Whatever the reason, Keaton's take me or leave me attitude inspired playwright Samuel Beckett to call him the fir...
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