Holy Early Peak, Batman! Michael Keaton: A Career Assesment
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Michael Keaton: A Eulogy
Career's Lifespan: 1975 – 2010
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of an icon. After a long battle with demeaning roles, crippling humiliation and frostbite, Keaton chose to march ungracefully into the Batlight. Let us not remember him as in those last painful decades, but rejoice for his great beginnings.
Michael John Douglas was born as one of the ‘Flying Zucchini Brothers’ in 1975 before christening himself Michael Keaton to avoid comparison with Catherine Zeta-Jones’ old man. His major breakthrough role as fast-talking schemer Bill “Blaze” Blazejowski in Ron Howard’s Night Shift established him as ...