THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE OPTIONS

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also built us come to feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Resourceful –