Three new books — “Dream State,” “Hollywood Eden” and “Rock Me on the Water,” examine savvy pop-culture myth-making by and about the Golden State., among others. But his connection to Keaton started when he was a kid, watching reruns of “The Buster Keaton Show” in the early ’60s on Saturday morning television. Keaton was on TV a lot back then, with guest spots on “You Asked for It,” “The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater,” “The Twilight Zone” and other programs.
“Buster saw the whole frame, and he saw the whole point of the frame,” Curtis says. “He also knew instinctively that with the motion picture camera, you could do things that you couldn’t do onstage. You can take the camera anywhere and shoot anything you want with it. He was well-traveled enough and insightful enough to know that was a big deal. And I think that informed a lot of what he did.”
Both authors caution against reading too much into the bang-bang timing of their books’ release dates . Both books were supposed to publish in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed them back. There’s no grand confluence that made early 2022 the season of Keaton. “I don’t want to put the two books into competition with each other in a false way or encroach on the turf of someone who’s doing archival work like he’s doing,” Stevens says. “I’m not trying to break new stories about Buster Keaton.
In other words, you don’t have to choose. It is the season of Keaton, and not for any particular reason but because it’s always the right time to revisit an artist who — though sidelined by a changing world — made that world the subject of work that would never go out of style.
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