EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also made us come to feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as creative – specia