THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE - AN OVERVIEW

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences chortle, but he also made us truly feel. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Inventive – partic