TOP THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE SECRETS

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also created us feel. His films generally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful 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 cre