TOP THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE SECRETS

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also built us come to feel. His films normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as