THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also created us come to feel. His films generally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as