THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin made audiences chuckle, but he also produced us experience. His movies normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Innovat