THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences giggle, but he also created us truly feel. His films generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginativ