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

Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also produced us really feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Resourceful – especial