THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chortle, but he also created us really feel. His films typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as creat