He wrestled and boxed, he won prizes and started drinking. "I was a saphead drunk." But this cowboy life was empty. He was looking for meaning, and one day in the drunk tank in a jail in Montana ...

Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-9, 11-4, 31-9, 77-85, 135-43, 187-95, 271-8, 329-38, ISBN 0415252830 (hbk), 0415252849 (pbk) - “The Making of a Comic Star: Buster Keaton ...

tunnels . . . my locomotives and cars . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded.” ...

Even in Ridley Scott’s utterly ridiculous Napoleon, he makes a pretty good part-fact, part-fantasy Bonaparte, a brilliant ...