September 5: Happy Birthday Michael Keaton

https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/09/05/september-5-happy-birthday-carice-van-houten-and-michael-keaton/

Michael Keaton celebrates his 65th birthday today. Like August 23 headliner Shelley Long, Keaton’s breakthrough came in the 1982 comedy Night Shift. In the next decade, Keaton went to to headline further comedies like Johnny Dangerously and Beetlejuice, and to don Batman’s mask and cape for two outings, a casting choice that was probably more controversial at the time than in retrospect. He then proved to be an unorthodox but rather effective Shakespearean:

https://youtu.be/sdNtnZbJBRw

Keaton’s subsequent career—his slow decline from stardom to supporting player, and his recent resurgence through being Oscar-nominated for Birdman—is covered in his WTHH article, which brings his story up through about 2014. It can be added that his resurgence has not faded. Keaton was a lead in a second consecutive Best Picture winner in Spotlight, will headline the Ray Kroc biopic The Founder which will be released this December, and will appear in next year’s Spiderman: Homecoming.