THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also designed us experience. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful 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 least as creati