A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chuckle, but he also designed us truly feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as creative – sig