FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences giggle, but he also built us come to feel. His movies typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginative �