EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also produced us come to feel. His films frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Resou