A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences giggle, but he also produced us truly feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Artistic – espec