FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also manufactured us really feel. His films often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Arti