FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences snicker, but he also built us sense. His films generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Inventive