A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences laugh, but he also designed us feel. His movies frequently balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as creative – s