FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences laugh, but he also made us really feel. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginative – p