FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences chuckle, but he also made us sense. His movies normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as creative – especially throu