FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences giggle, but he also made us truly feel. His movies frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as creative