THE THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE DIARIES

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences snicker, but he also manufactured us come to feel. His movies normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very le