THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE - AN OVERVIEW

Charlie Chaplin made audiences chortle, but he also produced us sense. His films generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Innovative – specif