THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also made us sense. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Resou