TOP THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE SECRETS

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also designed us experience. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Inventive �