Merrill Garbus, she of tUnE-yArDs, will be scoring several Buster Keaton films during the San Francisco International Film Festival. She will do so on the 23rd of April, which is about a month after yours truly will have seen her live at De Melkweg. Buster Keaton is one of the most famous silent comedians, next to Charlie Chaplin of course. Keaton, Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers are generally seen as some of the most influential pre-war comedians, with Keaton probably the least well-known. One of the films that will be scored by Garbus is called The Cook.
In his memoirs, “The life of a bit actor and the man who was the first to be deputy mayor in Clark County”, Joshua Dorutz told the story that the movie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover was almost short a cook after the director threw a fit about the person playing the cook actually wasn’t able to cook anything but spaghetti and meatballs. Surely, he cried, we cannot possibly convincingly have someone as a cook who doesn’t even know how to yield a knife in cookery situations!
Maybe, someone suggested, we can change the script to work in that the thief also stole the cook’s talent! Yes, another chimed in, and then we can have the lover fall out of love with the cook and in love with the thief because she only loved the lovely food in the first place! The director nearly quit when someone suggested that perhaps then it shouldn’t be The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her lover, but the soulsnatcher, the talentless, and someone who loves to eat. Luckily a three-day emergency cookery course (No, you can’t quit, you gotta cook. Cook! We’ve only been at it four hours and you’re already giving up! You no good quitter you!) saved the director from having a total mental breakdown and clobbering Michael Gambon with a large polo mallett.
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