FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences chuckle, but he also made us really feel. His movies normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least