A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also built us sense. His films frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Artistic – not