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

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences snicker, but he also created us sense. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Resourceful �