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Charlie Chaplin built audiences chortle, but he also manufactured us sense. His movies typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as A