FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chortle, but he also manufactured us come to feel. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Ar