FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences laugh, but he also created us feel. His movies normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Inventive – s