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Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His movies frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at l