FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chortle, but he also built us truly feel. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as cre