EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chortle, but he also designed us really feel. His movies often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as cr