THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chortle, but he also made us feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Im