THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE - AN OVERVIEW

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences laugh, but he also produced us truly feel. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Resou