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Charlie Chaplin designed audiences snicker, but he also produced us really feel. His films normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as In