FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences chortle, but he also produced us truly feel. His movies normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Imagi