Hello Mr. Shepard, It would appear that a profession in film preservation is a calling with the meticulous, painstaking attention to detail of neurosurgery. Thank goodness you, Harold Lloyd and countless others had vision as young lads to see the value of a paper route to fund their creative interes...

Great Howard Hughes story! I thought you might be fooling but those directors' styles were as distinctive as fingerprints and it would be good to know Mr. Hughes cared enough about the final edit, such as it was.

Mr. B, Thanks for that exhilarating answer- good fun! Your casting suggestions are also hilarious. Point well taken and I always thought someone from Cirque de Soleil would have to play Keaton. I prefer the non-sensationalized truth, too, but truth can be stranger than fiction sometimes! Take THE AV...

Mr. Birchard, Thank-you for a very interesting discussion! It seems that films come to the big screen in clusters ie: westerns, and I would be interested in your choice for new productions of biographical movies such as CHAPLIN. A film on Keaton, Lloyd, Chaney, Swanson or Clara Bow would be very wel...