A SIMPLE KEY FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE UNVEILED

Charlie Chaplin built audiences laugh, but he also built us come to feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Inventive – notably