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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chuckle, but he also made us experience. His films usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality 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 Inventive