THE THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE DIARIES

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences laugh, but he also manufactured us really feel. His movies usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Art