FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chuckle, but he also built us sense. His films normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line amongst 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 Artistic – spe