FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin created audiences laugh, but he also produced us feel. His films frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as cr