![]() ![]() In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. (is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous , available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. To learn more about silent and slapstick film please check out my new book: Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, just released by Bear Manor Media, also available from etc etc etc Buster’s stern boss is his usual heavy, Big Joe Roberts, and the fancy lady is Virginia Fox. ![]() Buster’s co-director on the film was Mal St. Though the saddle with a shock absorber does. The incompetence and chaos his character spreads doesn’t feel like so much like Buster’s accustomed turf to me. And Buster wreaks a great deal of havoc in both worlds. This was that interesting transitional time when your local blacksmith might also double as a garage mechanic…horses were still around and cars were also in the picture. An extremely Keatonesque opening shot (Buster standing next to the tallest tree imaginable) followed by a film more characteristic of Laurel and Hardy or the Three Stooges. The General captures Buster Keaton at his timeless best. Written and directed by rising filmmaker Larry Yang (Mountain Cry) and co-starring Liu Haocun (Cliff Walkers) and Kevin Guo (Adoring), Ride On is a fast, funny and uplifting story of family, with stunning action choreography paying homage to the classics of Jackie Chan.Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton short The Blacksmith (1922). Like most things with Amazon, when it comes to choosing a movie on Prime the sheer number of. But when his renewed fame scores him a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, will he finally put his family first? Meanwhile, Luo works to reconnect with his estranged daughter and her boyfriend, who both seek to help him. When his trusty stunt horse, Red Hare, becomes the target of debt collectors, the pair fight off the attackers, with their impressive display caught on camera and the video going viral. Buster Keaton was born the same year movies were first publicly exhibited, and in the coming decades, he would grow in tandem with the industry he would revolutionize as an independent. Luo (Chan) is a washed-up stuntman whose glory days are long behind him. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The film is described as “heart-warming tribute” to the world of stunts which made Chan an international superstar. Jackie Chan’s action-comedy Ride On is getting a Blu-ray, DVD & Digital release on 24th July via Trinity CineAsia.
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