THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chortle, but he also produced us truly feel. His movies frequently balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line in between 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 Inn