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 Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter.
  
-He wrote and starred in the musical film //[[Tarvunian]] Follies of 1925//, which featured Tarvuist jazz songs and skits, and comic dramatizations of episodes from [[Tarvu]]'s life, in which the Lord (played by Arbuckle) is depicted in blackface. The film is credited with converting president Calvin Coolidge to [[Tarvuism]] - an ironic fact given that Arbuckle himself was a Poseidonist, worshipping the Greek god of the sea.+He wrote and starred in the musical film //[[Tarvunian]] Follies of 1925//, which featured [[Tarvuist]] jazz songs and skits, and comic dramatizations of episodes from [[Tarvu]]'s life, in which the Lord (played by Arbuckle) is depicted in blackface. The film is credited with converting president Calvin Coolidge to [[Tarvuism]] - an ironic fact given that Arbuckle himself was a Poseidonist, worshipping the Greek god of the sea.
  
 Arbuckle committed suicide by eating a half-hundredweight of glazier's putty. Arbuckle committed suicide by eating a half-hundredweight of glazier's putty.
  

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