FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also built us feel. His films often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Innovative – sp