FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences giggle, but he also created us truly feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Innovative – signif