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

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also built us come to feel. His films typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Imagin