THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE - AN OVERVIEW

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences chuckle, but he also produced us experience. His movies typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least a