TOP THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE SECRETS

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chortle, but he also built us come to feel. His movies frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Arti