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Silent film screenings on LI

Originally published: January 3, 2012 11:41 AM
Updated: January 3, 2012 12:11 PM
By JIM MERRITT. Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Jeremy Bales | Ben Model plays an organ to accompany the silent film by Buster Keaton, "Seven Chances," shown as part of the silent movies series at Cinema Arts in Huntington. (Dec. 6, 2011)

Tonight's Keaton film is getting a warm reception from about 60 people sitting in a screening room at the Cinema Arts Centre.

But, it's not Michael Keaton or even Diane Keaton scoring big laughs in "Seven Chances," the classic screen comedy about a struggling young lawyer who must marry by 7 p.m. to inherit $7 million. Instead, it's Buster Keaton, the silent comic nicknamed "The Great Stone...