TOP THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE SECRETS

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also created us sense. His films normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Arti