A SIMPLE KEY FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE UNVEILED

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also manufactured us experience. His films often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Im